Quick question regarding when an effect causes your HP Maximum to be reduced. If have less than your HP max in remaining hit points, do your remaining hit points also get reduced?
Say for example I have an HP Maximum of 40HP but I currently only have 16 HP. When my maximum is reduced from 40 to 30HP by an effect, does my current HP also reduce from 16 to 6 HP?
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Current hit points are reduced if it would be greater than the maximum, current hit points cannot be higher than maximum hit points. You can, however, have temporary hit points at any amount, but no effect causes excess current hit points to be transformed into temporary hit points and effects that grant temporary hit points do not stack.
In the example your current hit points would still be 16.
Effects that reduce your maximum HP don't also reduce your current HP unless the description says so. SladeTracy is correct that this will happen anyway if your max HP is reduced below your current HP; that's because of the general HP rules, not because max HP reduction always reduces current HP.
Quick question regarding when an effect causes your HP Maximum to be reduced. If have less than your HP max in remaining hit points, do your remaining hit points also get reduced?
Say for example I have an HP Maximum of 40HP but I currently only have 16 HP. When my maximum is reduced from 40 to 30HP by an effect, does my current HP also reduce from 16 to 6 HP?
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Current hit points are reduced if it would be greater than the maximum, current hit points cannot be higher than maximum hit points. You can, however, have temporary hit points at any amount, but no effect causes excess current hit points to be transformed into temporary hit points and effects that grant temporary hit points do not stack.
In the example your current hit points would still be 16.
Effects that reduce your maximum HP don't also reduce your current HP unless the description says so. SladeTracy is correct that this will happen anyway if your max HP is reduced below your current HP; that's because of the general HP rules, not because max HP reduction always reduces current HP.
It is also true that many effects that reduce your total HP do it by the amount of damage you took from the damaging portion of the spell.