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Wounds, Bruises, and Blood

A Rules Option

According to the SRD:

Tracking Individual

Wounds

Whenever you sufer damage from an attack

do not simply subtract the amount of damage from

your current hit point total. Instead, write down the

amount of damage that you sufered as well as a “B”

(bludgeoning ), “S” (Slashing ), “P” (Piercing ), or “M”

(Magic), depending on the type of attack. Do this for

every single damaging attack that you sufer, keeping

track of each wound separately. As long as the total

value of your wounds does not reduce your hit points

to 0 or less you continue pretty much as normal. Once

the total of your wounds reduces your hit point total

to 0 or less you continue on with the injury rules as

written in the SRD.

“Your hit points measure how hard you are to kill.

No matter how many hit points you lose, your character

isn’t hindered in any way until your hit points drop to 0

or lower.”

So basically, any damage you sufer is subtracted

directly from your total number of current hit points

and as long the result is 1 or greater you continue on

with your adventure as if nothing had happened. his,

as we all know, works perfectly well and is a fast and

simple way of handling character damage. For some,

though, the system that follows will prove more

satisfactory, in that the end result remains the same –

as long as your current hit point total equals 1 or more

you continue on relatively unharmed –but the details

are better suited to a “low fantasy” campaign.

As with all new rules, especially those that I tend

to write, everything in this PDF is completely optional

and must be approved by your DM. I wouldn’t be at

all surprised that it is the DMs, rather than the players,

that advocate this particular optional rule.

Special thanks to Mark Gedak for product review

and pointing out a serious error in the section on healing

(wow, was I stupid!) and suggesting the rule on [Force]

spells.

Example: A 3rd-level cleric with a total of 21 hit

points is attacked by a goblin wielding a short sword and

sufers 3 points of damage. he cleric’s player writes down

“3P” on his character sheet. he cleric still has 18 hit

points remaining so he continues on, unafected.

he goblin attacks a second time and scores a hit, this

time inlicting 2 points of damage. he cleric’s character

sheet now reads “3P, 2P.” he cleric still has 16 hit points

remaining so he continues on, unafected.

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About the Author

Philip Reed has been working professionally in the roleplaying game industry since 1995. In that time he has

worked for such companies as Steve Jackson Games, Green Ronin Publishing, and Atlas Games. Today Philip

spends his days at home running Ronin Arts, writing and designing new games, and playing whatever his favorite

game is at this exact moment in time. To learn more about Philip Reed – and Ronin Arts – please visit www.

roninarts.com and www.philipjreed.com.

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A short time passes and the cleric inds himself again

assaulted, this time by a rogue armed with a club. he

hit is brutal – 6 points – so the cleric’s character sheet

now reads “3P, 2P, 6B.” he cleric still has 10 hit points

remaining so he continues on, unafected.

If at any time the cleric’s total wound value reduces

his hit points to 0 or less he’s in trouble. Fortunately, so

far he is safe.

Optional Option: Wounds

Exceed Constitution

If at any time the total value of your wounds exceeds

your Constitution score, but they do not reduce your

hit point total to 0 or less, you must make a successful

Fortitude save – DC equal to your current total wounds

– or drop unconscious. If you are rendered unconscious

in this manner you awaken within 1d4+1 rounds ater

which point you are staggered until your wound total

drops to equal or less than your Constitution score.

Example: Our cleric rom the previous example,

currently burdened with “3P, 2P, 6B,” will ind himself

at “5P, 4P, 6B” in thirty minutes if he doesn’t get those

“P” wounds bandaged.

A successful Heal check – DC 10 + the wound’s

value – requiring one minute of time bandages a

particular wound and stops it from bleeding further.

Each wound must be bandaged separately.

Example: he cleric’s “3P” wound requires a DC 13

Heal check to bandage while the “2P” wound requires a

DC 12 Heal check to bandage.

Optional Option: A bandaged wound can be

aggravated and open up, causing more bleeding.

Whenever you have bandaged wounds and attempt

more than a single move action in a round you must

make a successful Fortitude save – DC 10 + the

wound’s value – or automatically increase the wound

by 1 point and render the bandages useless (the wound

must be re-bandaged). If you have more than one

bandaged wound you must make a Fortitude save for

each individual wound.

Bleeding and Magical Healing

Wounds that have been magically healed, even if

they have not been completely healed, do not bleed.

It’s magic.

Bruises

For every day of game time that a “B” wound

goes untreated – either through magical healing or a

successful Heal check (DC 10 + the wound’s value) –

there is a chance that the wound will leave a permanent

bruise, disiguring your appearance and harming your

Charisma score. You must make a successful Fortitude

save (DC 15 + the wound’s level) or sufer a permanent

loss of 1 point of Charisma.

Arcane Wounds

For every thirty minutes of game time that an

“M” wound goes untreated – either through magical

healing or a successful Heal check (DC 10 + the

wound’s value) – the wound’s value increases by 1

point as the lingering magical energies continue eating

away at your body.

Example: Our cleric riend with the “6B” wound

should really have that looked at. Otherwise, he will

have to make a DC 21 Fortitude save or lose 1 point of

Charisma.

Optional Option: his can be pretty devastating.

To make it even more devastating “B” wounds that go

untreated also inlict a permanent loss of 1 point of

Strength and Dexterity – through battered bones – on

a failed Fortitude save.

Optional Option’s Option: Instead of permanent

loss, make any attribute efects damage (so that lost

points can be recovered normally).

Example: Our already abused cleric is hit by a 3rd-

level wizard’s burning hands spell and sufers 8 points of

damage. hat “8M” wound should be healed soon or else

it’s going to turn into a “9M” wound.

Optional Option: A spellcaster may, when casting

a [Force] spell, elect to cause a “B” (Bludgeoning )

wound rather than an “M” (Magic) wound.

Bleeding

For every thirty minutes of game time, every

wound you currently sufer from that is marked with

an “S” increases by 1 point while all wounds marked

with a “P” are increased by 2 points. Wounds marked

with a “B” or an “M” do not bleed.

If you undergo complete bed rest for an entire day

and night, you recover twice your character level in hit

points.

Optional Option: For a more dangerous game,

replace “night” with “week;” a full week of rest is

required to recover a total of 1 hit point per character

level. Any activity during that week, other than eating,

resting, and brief chats with friends, prevents you from

healing and instead aggravates the wounds, increasing

each wound by 1 point.

Magical Healing

Various abilities and spells can restore hit points.

Magical healing is applied to all wounds equally;

determine the amount of hit points regained through

magic, divide the number by the total number of

wounds (round up), and apply that result equally to

every wound.

Healing Wounds

Just as with the basic rules in the SRD, ater taking

damage you can recover hit points through natural

healing or through magical healing. In any case, you

cannot regain hit points past your full normal hit

point total.

Natural Healing

With a full night’s rest (8 hours of sleep or more),

you recover a total of 1 hit point per character level and

the total is then distributed evenly across all wounds;

determine the number of hit points regained, divide

the number by the total number of wounds (round

up), and apply that result equally to every wound. Any

signiicant interruption during your rest prevents you

from healing that night.

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