Wounds - Optional Rules

Shock

• Whenever you are hit reduce DEX and IQ by the number of HP lost (max -4) for your next turn.
  • This does not affect Defense rolls or other defensive reactions.

Major Wound

• When you take damage greater than half of your HP in one hit or receive a Crippling Wound roll HT to avoid Knockdown and Stunning.

Knockdown and Stunning

• A Major Wound or damage to the head or vitals triggers an HT roll to avoid stun, falling, and dropping anything held.
  • -5 if a Major Wound to face, vitals or groin
  • -10 if a Major Wound to skull or eye
  • +3 if High Pain Threshold, and -4 if Low Pain Threshold

Stunned

• Do Nothing on next turn.
• All Active Defenses at -4
• Roll against HT or IQ at the end of each turn to act normally

Mortal Wounds

• Failing a HT roll to avoid death by 1 or 2
  • Incapacitated (Unconscious)
• Failing any further HT rolls kills you
  • Make a HT roll every half hour
• On a Critical Success you are no longer mortally wounded (still incapacitated)

Bleeding

• At the end of every minute after being wounded make a HT roll at -1 per 5 HP lost.
  • Failure lose 1 HP (Critical Failure lose 3 HP)
  • 3 consecutive Successes: bleeding stops
  • Critical Success: bleeding stops

Last Wounds
It can happen that a sorely wounded hero is knocked out, or even killed, by a 1 HP blow to the foot.
There are those who find this unrealistic. If you wish, use this optional rule:

Once you have less than 1/3 your HP left, you can totally ignore any wound to a limb or extremity unless:

• (a) it is a critical hit;
• (b) it is enough to cripple that body part; or
• (c) it inflicts injury equal to 1/3 your HP or more at once.

Dying Actions
When a PC or important NPC is killed in any but the most sudden and thorough fashion, the GM should allow a “dying action.” If this is a final blow at the enemy, it should take no more than a turn. If it’s a deathbed speech, the GM should stretch time a little bit for dramatic purposes! This has nothing to do with realism, but it’s fun.