im currently doing a campaign with me and a few of my friends, these guys have just started DnD and have only jut reached level 2. these guys are confused about their health and if it becomes higher because one of them has 5hp. and to be honest so am i. is the website supposed to do it automatically or do i have to enter the information myself? thank you all for the help
If you edit the character, and go to the Home tab, you should see a section called "Hit Point Type". If it is set to "Fixed" then you will automatically get hp when you gain a level.
The hp depend on the class of the character as well as the Constitution modifier of the character.
Check the preferences on your character sheet (the first tab if you're in the builder, if you're in the character sheet click the gear near your character's name, then click preferences in the sidebar). Look for the section 'Hit Point Type' - if it's set to Manual you need to roll the dice and and the number yourself (more below). If it says Fixed, then the character sheet will use the rule that takes the average instead of rolling a die, and adds it automatically.
If you are doing manual hit points, then you'd go into the character editor (the anvil icon), go to the class tab, and click the blue 'Manage HP' button. In the text box underneath 'rolled HP' you would add your die roll to the existing number. The sheet automatically takes care of the added HP from your constitution modifier. So if you have a wizard with +2 CON, you'd have 8 HP at level one. You roll your d6, and get a 2. Add that to the rolled HP for 8, and the sheet takes care of the CON to give you 12 total. It sounds like your friend has a negative CON modifier, so they might want to think about adjusting their stats some.
thanks for the help although its still not working. i have all of their characters as fixed and they are all level 2 but non of their health points are increasing
When you level up you have to manually pick the class you want to take a level into. If you haven't done that yet then their HP wont increase. It is done this way incase you want to multiclass.
After you level up your HP will auto adjust if you have the Fixed Slider enabled. you may need to change the HP back to the default before you do that however otherwise depending on how you did it your manual HP override could override the increase in HP or add additional unintended HP.
PS- The trolls can’t hurt your character sheets. Heck, they nobody can even see the last 1/3 of the sheet Description, Notes, Extras), even your players cannot see those sections on each other’s character sheets. (As DM, you can see those sections on their sheets, but they can only se those sections on their own sheets.
Posting links to characters is safe. The only people who can directly affect a Character Sheet are the Character’s owner, the DM, and DDB Moderators and Staff. The worst a troll might do is tell you you have a dumb character, and then you can just “ignore” those folks and never need to read posts from them again.
im currently doing a campaign with me and a few of my friends, these guys have just started DnD and have only jut reached level 2. these guys are confused about their health and if it becomes higher because one of them has 5hp. and to be honest so am i. is the website supposed to do it automatically or do i have to enter the information myself? thank you all for the help
If you edit the character, and go to the Home tab, you should see a section called "Hit Point Type". If it is set to "Fixed" then you will automatically get hp when you gain a level.
The hp depend on the class of the character as well as the Constitution modifier of the character.
Check the preferences on your character sheet (the first tab if you're in the builder, if you're in the character sheet click the gear near your character's name, then click preferences in the sidebar). Look for the section 'Hit Point Type' - if it's set to Manual you need to roll the dice and and the number yourself (more below). If it says Fixed, then the character sheet will use the rule that takes the average instead of rolling a die, and adds it automatically.
If you are doing manual hit points, then you'd go into the character editor (the anvil icon), go to the class tab, and click the blue 'Manage HP' button. In the text box underneath 'rolled HP' you would add your die roll to the existing number. The sheet automatically takes care of the added HP from your constitution modifier. So if you have a wizard with +2 CON, you'd have 8 HP at level one. You roll your d6, and get a 2. Add that to the rolled HP for 8, and the sheet takes care of the CON to give you 12 total. It sounds like your friend has a negative CON modifier, so they might want to think about adjusting their stats some.
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thanks for the help although its still not working. i have all of their characters as fixed and they are all level 2 but non of their health points are increasing
Can you link their characters?
*(removed link as i worry for trolls)*
ive manually put in the health instead but heres one of the characters
You haven't put the level into any class.
When you level up you have to manually pick the class you want to take a level into. If you haven't done that yet then their HP wont increase. It is done this way incase you want to multiclass.
After you level up your HP will auto adjust if you have the Fixed Slider enabled. you may need to change the HP back to the default before you do that however otherwise depending on how you did it your manual HP override could override the increase in HP or add additional unintended HP.
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thanks to everyone who helped out. i have it all sorted and understood now. hope everyone has a great day
thanks
Bayley
PS- The trolls can’t hurt your character sheets. Heck, they nobody can even see the last 1/3 of the sheet Description, Notes, Extras), even your players cannot see those sections on each other’s character sheets. (As DM, you can see those sections on their sheets, but they can only se those sections on their own sheets.
Posting links to characters is safe. The only people who can directly affect a Character Sheet are the Character’s owner, the DM, and DDB Moderators and Staff. The worst a troll might do is tell you you have a dumb character, and then you can just “ignore” those folks and never need to read posts from them again.
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