Damage and healing

Some of this is the normal rules, some I have modified slightly. Also check out the wounds rules, as the Wound Damage heals like normal hit point damage. You can also read the Hitpoint article for my view on DnD hit points.

Hitpoints

Hit points are generally a compromise between fast and easy gameplay and realism. A problem is naturally that real battle never work like hit points, so I'm taking a pragmatic view on the topic.

What Hit Points Are

Hit points are a combination of minor injuries, exhaustion, emotional shock and simple "battle luck" in a combat. Losing 90% of your hit points is not the same as having a sword stabbed through your lung, it's simply a game mechanic to show your luck is about to run out, and you know it. Whatever the case, at -10 hit points, you ARE dead.

This also explains how hit points can regenerate so quickly; the loss of hit points only marginally represent actual injuries. In most cases they represent bruises and weariness rather than injuries.

Lethal Damage Conversion

• Receive as normal, but note Damage Conversion (non-magic AC converts its bonus to non-lethal).
• Heals at slower rate if unattended.

Healing

Because of the damage conversion (and if the wounds are used), I have modified the healing rules as well.

Nonlethal Damage

• 1 per 2 hours if taking it slow.
• 1 per hour if specifically resting.
• Magic healing heals one nonlethal damage per regular hit point healed.
• If the character only has nonlethal damage, magic heals 2 points per point of healing.
• Every point of nonlethal damage received after recieving as many points of nonlethal damage as there are hitpoints are instead lethal.

Healing from Resting

• Healing effects stack, unless otherwise noted. Numbers are rounded down to nearest whole number at a minimum of 1.
• Sleeping/resting for 8 hours per day recuperates lost hit points.
• DM can decide to give bonus HP for low lvl characters using good services.
• DM can decide if partial rest (like 4 hours) still count for anything.
• Whole day spent in bed (24 hours) recuperates +1 point per level*.
• Carer: If another character cares (DC15 Heal) for the injured during the rest, the recuperation is increased by +1 point per level*.
• Other recuperation modifiers:
  • 0.25 per lvl per "uncomfortable" rest (outside on an uncomfortable bed or in bad weather or sleeping in armour without the Endurance feat).
  • 0.50 per lvl per "low quality" rest (decent conditions outside or in indoors on low quality bed).
  • 0.75 per lvl per "average" rest (indoors on an average quality bed or outdoors in excellent camping conditions/bedding).
  • 1.00 per lvl per "good" rest (indoors with access to servants, bath, clean cloths etc or a staffed field hospital, receiving plenty of attention).
  • 1.25 per lvl per "excellent" rest (indoors in an extravagant setting or general treatment at a hospital - staff understands your needs but you are not specifically cared for).
  • 2.50 per lvl per "hospitalised" rest (in a specialised hospital where you are especially cared for). Does not stack with a carer.
  • Spending the time with a courtesan (if you are so capable) improves the recuperation by +0.5 per level*.
• Ability Damage
  • The same numbers as above, but not "per lvl".

Carer - A person who competently aids the injured person. Includes change of bandages and/or soothing herbs etc. The carer will obviously not be able to sleep for the duration.

(*) - Applied after other modifiers.

Wound Healing

Wound damage is essentially the same as normal hit point loss, but hit point lost from wounds heal 'after any normal hit point losses are recuperated.

Death

Death itself can be through shock, cardiac arrest, massive organ failure, asphyxiation or simply bleeding to death. The dying status represents one or all of these effects, while the shock status added by me specifically deals with shock only.

In this particular campaign setting, resurrection is very uncommon, so as to alleviate this, I've added a new spell, Resuscitation, which will work in very limited circumstances, more similar to a skilled paramedic of today than an actual Raise Dead spell.

Rules

I'm using Pathfinder's rules for dying in both Pathfinder and any 3.5 campaigns I run:

• A dying creature can take no action.
• On the creature's turn, it must make a Constitution check (not Fortitude).
  • The Con check is DC 10 + negative damage in these campaigns. Natural 20 is automatic success.
  • If the Con check is failed, she loses 1 hit point.
• Heal check (DC15) stabilises a dying character.
• If a dying creature has an amount of negative hit points equal or above its constitution score, it dies.

Death

• After the body dies, it takes 2+D2 minutes before the brain is irreparably dead also (even with decapitation). At that point, the soul leaves the body.
• It's possible to cast spells on a dead body to heal wounds or to remove diseases or toxins.
• Potions work on dead bodies because they are activated by the act of being put in a person's mouth rather than swallowing.
• The spell Resuscitation can be cast on a body which has not suffered complete brain death.

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