| L1wolf |
I want to make sure the drained condition is being applied correctly in my games. Lets say we have a lvl 3 halfling cleric, 10 con no toughness, who is drained 3. Their HPs before drained would be 30, what order is the drained applied?
A - HP loss first, then Max HP loss, the character would go from 30/30 to 21/30 then to 21/21.
B - Max HP loss first then HP loss, the character would go from 30/30 to 21/21 then to 12/21.
The A makes sense to me, but I have seen the B implemented in a lot of games.
As a follow up would it change anything if the character was already down hps? say they were already down 10 HPs, 20/30. Because A would stay the same but B now has 2 potentials:
1 - Max HP loss only lowers current HP if it has to to match current max hp, then hp loss, so 20/30 to 20/21 to 11/21
2 - Max HP loss always lowers current HP also, then hp loss, so 20/30 to 11/21 to 2/21.
Again 2 is how I am seeing this implemented. Seeing as I have seen drain applied by more PCs in my games then enemies this implementation is helping the PCs more, but I would like an official reply from someone at Paizo to make sure.