Splatbook*

Harm & Healing

Hit points and damage Debilities Problematic wounds Death and dying Healing and recovery

Player characters and their followers often find themselves in danger, exposed to injury and harm. Seeing them get hurt and then seeing how they deal with it is a big part of playing to find out what happens.

There are basically four types of harm that a character can suffer:

  • Damage to their Hit Points (HP)
  • Debilities
  • Fictionally problematic wounds
  • Death or a lethal wound

Any time a character (PC or NPC) is hurt in the fiction, they suffer some or all of these types of harm. Each affects a character in different ways.

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