Constitution Drains [Archive] - Wizards Community

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PurpleWorm

06-10-06, 11:03 AM
Just a quick question. If a character has a penalty applied to his Constitution during battle, do you reduce his overall hit points by the difference in modifiers, or do you subtract the difference for every level? (Seeing as you add the constitution modifier each level to the hit dice roll.)
Radijs

06-10-06, 11:16 AM
A change in constitution immediately affects a characters hit points.
So if poison lowers your CON score and your CON modifier you have to deduct the amount of HP immediately.
The same thing goes for things that increase your CON score.
PurpleWorm

06-10-06, 11:48 AM
So... A character goes from 15 con to 12. His modifiers change from +2 to +1. Does he just lose 1 hit point?
Witch

06-10-06, 11:57 AM
He loses one Hit Point per Hit Die.
PurpleWorm

06-10-06, 11:59 AM
Ahhhhhhhh. Thanks for much for clarifying this!