Adjusting Health in ZdooM

[Mr. Freeze]

How do I set the player's health to only 1% at the beginning of every level?

[Worst]

make a DEHACKED lump with:

Misc
Initial Health = 1

[EarthQuake]

In before "DeHackEd sucks" or "use DECORATE".

[Gez]

If that's all he wants to do, and it's for Doom, the dehacked method is the simplest way to go, for this specific effect. The DECORATE alternative is to derive from the DoomPlayer class, change one property, and add one KEYCONF lump to clear available player classes and add the new one. Not especially complicated, but it's two lumps instead of one.

Now if he wants to achieve such an effect in a non-Doom game (e.g. Heretic), then dehacked is ineffective.