I'm making a few characters in higher age categories for story purposes, and noticed the high HP from the Constitution loss. Question I had was: if the contitution loss from aging would drop your HP into the negatives, does your character die/collapse, or does it hover at 1? Since it's not damage or drain, but actual loss, I'm pretty sure it effects HP, though I could be wrong.
Example:
Level 3 Wizard
Con 10, 8 HP
After aging from category adult to venerable
Level 3 Wizard
Con 4, -1 HP
Is that how it works? Or no?
At level 3 with average die rolls he should have 13 hit points before aging.
An easy to miss thing prevents this. (If I am correct.) Link.
You apply your character's Constitution modifier to:
Each roll of a Hit Die (though a penalty can never drop a result below 1—that is, a character always gains at least 1 hit point each time he advances in level).
And as the Constitution lowers and the HP total is recalculated, each HD should give at least 1 HP. At least, to my knowledge.
The Archive is correct. This would change the example wizard's hit points (which would only be 8 if two 1s were rolled for levels 2 and 3) to 5 after the Constitution decrease.
An average 3rd level Wizard with 10 Constitution and 13 hit points would drop to 5 hit points as well with a 6 point Constitution drop.
Ah, sees. Thank you!