Yet the mentality is if your situation gets worse, you have more “life” than before
Please explain why you think 20 hit points (out of a maximum of 50) is "more life" than 20 hit points out of a maximum of 100
Either way, you are unconscious after taking 20 points of damage
20/100 = 1/5th, 20/50 = 2/5ths, which value is greater?
Fractions aren't values, and aren't even relevant most of the time, barring rare exceptions like a Life Domain cleric's Preserve Life feature
The value in both cases above is 20, regardless of what percentage of your max it represents
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Active characters:
Carric Aquissar, elven wannabe artist in his deconstructionist period (Archfey warlock) Lan Kidogo, mapach archaeologist and treasure hunter (Knowledge cleric) Mardan Ferres, elven private investigator obsessed with that one unsolved murder (Assassin rogue) Xhekhetiel, halfling survivor of a Betrayer Gods cult (Runechild sorcerer/fighter)
as for the vamp bite, your damaged for 5HP cause you would lose 1 for every 11 points of current HP remaining, and at higher HP Max totals, that same 10 point HP max total reduction vamp bite becomes more of a bug bite.
What is the damage type of this loss of hit points resulting from the Vampire's bite reducing the targets maximum hit points?
as for the vamp bite, your damaged for 5HP cause you would lose 1 for every 11 points of current HP remaining, and at higher HP Max totals, that same 10 point HP max total reduction vamp bite becomes more of a bug bite.
What is the damage type of this loss of hit points resulting from the Vampire's bite reducing the targets maximum hit points?
Same type as the bite, necrotic due to the life getting drained from your body.
I think the DndBeyond online character sheet app is buggy for HP Management. Do you agree? The app has several bugs, but where do I report this one?
Steps to reproduce:
My healthy and unaffected character Lemmy has (say) MAX HP 139.
He takes 112 damage and his Current HP is now 27.
For whatever reason he is then affected by 4 levels of exhaustion, so his Hit Point Maximum is halved. Half of 139 = 69.5 but I round up to 70.
I can either apply -69 using MAX HP MODIFER, or apply 70 using OVERRIDE MAX HP.
The net effect is Lemmy's MAX HP is halved/reduced by 69 to 70.
Someone casts Greater Restoration on him which reduces his exhaustion by 1 level.
Lemmy now has 3 levels of exhaustion so his Hit Point Maximum is no longer halved.
Intuitively, I delete (delete key) whichever figure I applied in step #4. Huzzah, Lemmy's MAX HP is back to 139.
However, the app has changed Lemmy's Current HP to 96!!! (27+69)
I would expect Lemmy's Current HP to be 27 the same as it was before, in step #2.
If you start this scenario with more than half your HP, then the app always ends with Current HP = Max HP, because it always adds back the half you took away when you were exhausted.
Fractions aren't values, and aren't even relevant most of the time, barring rare exceptions like a Life Domain cleric's Preserve Life feature
The value in both cases above is 20, regardless of what percentage of your max it represents
Active characters:
Carric Aquissar, elven wannabe artist in his deconstructionist period (Archfey warlock)
Lan Kidogo, mapach archaeologist and treasure hunter (Knowledge cleric)
Mardan Ferres, elven private investigator obsessed with that one unsolved murder (Assassin rogue)
Xhekhetiel, halfling survivor of a Betrayer Gods cult (Runechild sorcerer/fighter)
What is the damage type of this loss of hit points resulting from the Vampire's bite reducing the targets maximum hit points?
Same type as the bite, necrotic due to the life getting drained from your body.
Maximum hit points reduction is not damage nor type.
I think the DndBeyond online character sheet app is buggy for HP Management. Do you agree?
The app has several bugs, but where do I report this one?
Steps to reproduce:
If you start this scenario with more than half your HP, then the app always ends with Current HP = Max HP, because it always adds back the half you took away when you were exhausted.
Exhausted?