## Improved Toughness (Combat) You are significantly tougher than normal. **Prerequisite:** Toughness, Base Fortitude save bonus +2 **Benefit:** You gain a number of hit points equal to your base attack bonus. Whenever your base attack bonus increases, you gain an additional hit point. Additionally, the threshold at which your character dies is doubled (-20 hit points for standard death and dying rules). **Alternate Rulings:** This feat grants the following benefits using alternate death and dying rules: - Using the "death saves" mechanic, it takes 4 failed death saves to die. A natural 1 does not count as two failures. - Using the expanded death threshold mechanic, your death threshold 0-(HD + Constitution Score)×3.