Amused DF3 Observation

[martinl]

Pixies have exactly one HP. You might wanna buy that back up...

[KDLadage]

Depends.

Pixie Barbarians... well... ST 17; -5 from racial template = 12; ST 12 = 12 HP; -4 from racial template = 8.

Tough little buggers...

[demonsbane]

Originally Posted by martinl

Pixies have exactly one HP. You might wanna buy that back up...

I think their dungeon will be the World Shortest Dungeon!

[Harald387]

If you're anything but a Barbarian or Knight, you can't buy up HP past 1.3x normal without outright buying ST.

Meaning Pixies are stuck at 1 HP until they buy ST to 6 (2HP), 7 (4HP max), and so on...

I think they're also strength-capped at 15, though obviously Barbarians get to bypass this.

[vitruvian]

Pixie Barbarians - Pictsies for short?

(Apologies to Pratchett)

[Not another shrubbery]

Originally Posted by vitruvian

Pixie Barbarians - Pictsies for short?

(Apologies to Pratchett)

Har :)

Pixies in the Antebellum Old South: Pixie and Dixie.

As related by Hannah the Barbarian Pixie.

[sjmdw45]

Originally Posted by Harald387

If you're anything but a Barbarian or Knight, you can't buy up HP past 1.3x normal without outright buying ST.

Meaning Pixies are stuck at 1 HP until they buy ST to 6 (2HP), 7 (4HP max), and so on...

Reference, please? From the GURPS Basic Set I had thought that a ST 5 Pixie can buy up to 130% of 5 HP, i.e. +5 HP for a total of 6. Does DF specify that racial modifiers are applied differently from HP you normally buy? It would seem very un-GURPish if it did. 5 ST is 5 ST, and unless you have kind of racial Quirk ("decrease max HP by 4") you can buy HP up to normal levels.

Actually, the odd part is that Pixies are allowed to buy HP down so far in the first place.

-Max

[Anthony]

Sounds like someone ported Ellyllon to 4e and forgot that HP are based on ST.

[Bruno]

Originally Posted by sjmdw45

Actually, the odd part is that Pixies are allowed to buy HP down so far in the first place.

They aren't "Allowed" to, it's right on their racial template.

Originally Posted by Anthony

Sounds like someone ported Ellyllon to 4e and forgot that HP are based on ST.

Doesn't follow. Otherwise it would be based on their HT, of 10.

They've got 1 HP because they're tiny tiny tiny people. It's the general ST of 5 that's odd.

[Lonewulf]

Originally Posted by martinl

Pixies have exactly one HP. You might wanna buy that back up...

Or don't get hit?

With such a tiny SM, you're at a penalty to hit them anyways. And if they can fly, they can dodge a fireball, I think... (but they need to be able to retreat or somesuch, yeah?)