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    10   <title id="stsante">Health</title>

    11   

    12   <para>In Harmonies, as in real life, even light wounds can be very

    13     severe.  A wounded character must reduce all her activities and

    14     wounds doesn't heal easily.  If a character can usually continue

    15     an aventure with only some pain points, it become much more

    16     difficult with more severe wounds and the character should think

    17     seriously to find a way to get some rest and to heal herself.  A

    18     character physical health are state by two attributes: Pain, which

    19     give some penalities to all character rolls (either physical or

    20     mental), and Mortality, which slow down the recuperation of Pain

    21     and can kill a character.</para>

    22 

    23   <section id="sdouleur">

    24     <title id="stdouleur">Pain</title>

    25 

    26     <para>Pain is a penality who grow each time the character is

    27       hurted. <emphasis>Every physical and mental rolls of a character

    28       got this penality.</emphasis> Each 5 pain points that the

    29       character get (either in one shot or after a series of hits),

    30       she must roll against Rs+It, the roll being also submit to the

    31       same penality.  If a character got 10 pain points or more in one

    32       shot (for example, after a critical wound), just one roll is

    33       needed, with the final penality.  Note that for such roll, the

    34       character racial bonus <emphasis>doesn't</emphasis> count!  A

    35       giant pain point is not the same thing as a man pain point and

    36       so the scale is no more the same.<footnote><para>Some race can

    37       make an exception to this rule, like all the other rules, by the

    38       way.</para> </footnote> You must note also that, although Pain

    39       represent the suffering of a character, mostly correspond to the

    40       character's physical fitness, to her incapacity to act and to

    41       the risk of unconsciousness.  A character with a lot of pain

    42       points aren't necessarily screaming.</para>

    43     

    44     <example id="xdouleur">

    45       <title id="xtdouleur">Pain and unconsciousness</title>

    46       

    47       <para>Geraldine the Giant has +8 in Rs+It (+11 with her racial

    48         bonus) and have already 3 pain points when a dangerous fall

    49         make her lost 8 others!  Geraldine see her pain growing from 3

    50         to 11 pain points, and so must make a Rs+It roll of +8 (the

    51         racial bonus doesn't count!) at -11.  Although she had passed

    52         two unconsciousness steps (at 5 and 10 pain points), she only

    53         had one roll to do.</para>

    54     </example>

    55   </section>

    56 

    57   <section id="smortalite">

    58     <title id="stmortalite">Mortality</title>

    59     

    60     <para>Mortality represent the character's physical damages, the

    61       wounds she will not heal easily (compare to pain points).

    62       Mortality have two effects.  First, it limits the regain of

    63       <link linkend-"sdouleur">pain points</link>.  This limit is

    64       exactly the same as the character's mortality points.  So, a

    65       character with 3 mortality points will always have at least 3

    66       pain points.</para>

    67     

    68     <para>Then, Mortality can... kill.  Each 5 mortality points gain

    69       by the character, she must succeed a survival roll or die!  The

    70       roll is made with Bd+Rs, without the racial bonus nor the pain

    71       penality, and the difficulty is equal to the number of mortality

    72       points.</para>

    73 

    74     <example id="xmortalite">

    75       <title>Mortality and survival roll</title>

    76 

    77       <para>Geraldine's fall had give her 11 pain points and make her

    78         mortality went from 0 to 5 points (it was a very terrible

    79         fall, even for a giant).  Geraldine must make a survival roll

    80         with Bd+Rs (she have +5, without the racial bonus) with a

    81         difficulty of -5.  She had so 50% chance of surviving to her

    82         fall.  If she succeed, she will be able to regain some pain

    83         points again but will not goes under 5 pain points.</para>

    84     </example>

    85   </section>

    86 

    87   <section id="srecuperation">

    88     <title id="strecuperation">Resting and healing</title>

    89     

    90     <para>You must rest to heal.  To gain back her pain points, the

    91       character must restrain herself to limited, unexhausting

    92       activities.  Strainging action is hard, maybe even impossible,

    93       and cancel the recuperation of pain points.  For Mortality, a

    94       complete rest is mandatory.  Immobilization of the wounded limbs

    95       and limited activities can however be sufficient with the number

    96       of mortality points are less than 5.</para>

    97 

    98     <para>Pain points recuperation is 1 point every 15 minutes of

    99       rest.  For Mortality, a gain of 1 point is possible every two

   100       days of rest.  After this period, the character can make an

   101       healing roll (Bd+Rs-Mortality, adjust with all necessary medical

   102       care apply to the character but with her <link

   103       linkend="sracebonus">racial bonus</link>) to gain back one

   104       point.  A critical failure (-10 and less) make him lost a new

   105       mortality point, with all the risk of death if it reach a

   106       multiple of 5.  Note that some creature heal far more

   107       quickly. <remark userlevel="adv">This is really difficult!  I

   108       should add a bonus to ease the process, like +10 or

   109       something.</remark></para>

   110 

   111     <table frame="all" id="trecuperation">

   112       <title>Basic Healing Summary</title>

   113       <tgroup cols="2">

   114         <colspec colnum="1" colwidth="2in"/>

   115         <colspec colnum="2" colwidth="4in"/>

   116         <thead>

   117           <row>

   118             <entry>Types</entry>

   119             <entry>Healing</entry>

   120           </row>

   121         </thead>

   122         <tbody>

   123           <row>

   124             <entry>Pain</entry>

   125             <entry>

   126               1 point every 15 minutes

   127             </entry>

   128           </row>

   129           <row>

   130             <entry>Mortality</entry>

   131             <entry>

   132               1 point every 2 days on a successful healing roll.

   133             </entry>

   134           </row>

   135         </tbody>

   136       </tgroup>

   137     </table>

   138   </section>

   139 

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