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So I started the game with an alright character but had no weapons I could use, so I had to restart and when I came to, I noticed I had no health bar! I go about my business anyway, killing a rat and an imp before that archer lady killed me instantly, so I reload and check my health: lo and behold, I don't actually have no health, no, but actually have -1056 health! I did have the health regen advantage, so it was probably even lower than that when I started. It took me 64 hours (2.6 days) of rest to restore it all.

A similar bug is described in PATCHED.TXT, but I've never seen it myself. I think because I almost always play as thieves and they generally have a relatively low hit point bonus. Usually when this happens in an old video game it's because it's trying to count too high and resetting to negative numbers. I don't know how you managed to do that, because your attributes look pretty normal. Normally if that happened to one of my characters I would scrap them and start it over again. They've clearly taken too many arrows in the knee.

No, I've played Healer before, which basically takes every advantage that heals you faster, and I've never had this problem. Healer actually heals so fast it's almost one of the most broken classes in the game, or would be if they were any good in combat. My initial guess was that you took an advantage that boosts your hit points, but I double-checked and that doesn't exist, and like I said your attributes are pretty normal, so I have no idea. They were chasing after this bug for a long time before the final version was released, so I guess it's elusive.