| I agree, could be tedious if that happened however it takes something pretty special to kill an entire party....its something really a DM should have control on if things are heading that way...have had a lot of situations where the bulk of the party have been knocked down to below zero before and the party has just scraped through. Those are the battles and encounters that are very memorable....
But you have brought up some very valid points and from reading the 4E rules pretty much it is aimed at making the job a lot easier for the DM so maybe it was a decision in that direction to snub out the rolling of the hitpoints?
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