Does Weakness Scale with HP?

[Kalzazz]

Does Weakness scale with HP?

If someone has 20 HP, do they take 2d every X time instead of 1d etc?

Anyone have a reference where this is if its the case?

Thanks

[Maz]

Not it doesn't scale and it shouldn't. someone with high HP has paid for it, they shouldn't be hurt more. To equal out take higher level of Weakness.

[starslayer]

Weakness caps at 1d6 per time period (you can then reduce the time period- but 1d6 is all it can do without further having a vulnerability to that weakness).

I believe that like regeneration weakness does scale with hit points; otherwise it is possible to get 'free points' by simply being massive enough that the damage you will suffer from your weakness is ignoreable; this is the exact same reason that regeneration scales: otherwise the points you paid to regenerate become wasted because the scale of regeneration is nothing compared to the massive pool of hit points you have.

For instance if you are a dragon vampire (SM+8, 120HP) and have a weakness to sunlight (1d6/minute); netting an impressive -60 points; on a 'normal' vampire this represents an inability to spend more then a single minute in the sun; for the 120HP dragon vampire it represents an lack of want to be in the sun for more then a half hour unless damage scaling is in effect. By the same token if a normal vampire regenerates 1 hp/second it can go from 'fighitng off death' to 'in perfect health' in about a minute; without hit point scaling the dragon takes over an hour to achieve the same effect.

I fully believe that the intent of both weakness and regeneration is that they are to represent timings- you recover x times faster, or can only spend x minutes in a given environment- by skewing those timings as a punishment(for regeneration) or reward(for weakness) you allow the dynamic of the advantage/disadvantage to change.

[PK]

Weakness does not scale with HP. If it did. it would say so -- or there would at least be a rule somewhere in the books about negative effects scaling with HP. (There is a box about how healing scales with HP, but it's very explicit that this only applies to effects which let you recover HP, not harmful effects.)

If you have a 1d/minute Weakness, you take 1d/minute whether you have HP 4 or HP 400. If the GM feels that this is a problem, it would certainly be a reasonable house rule to scale Weakness in his campaign -- but that's definitely a house rule, not RAW.