Harm, Recovery, & Conditions (Arden-Vul)

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Harm

Critical Hits

• A natural 20 on an attack roll inflicts maximum normal damage + an extra die of damage (whatever type the weapon normally rolls).

Death

• 0 hp) unconscious but stable.
  • If healed to 1 hp or more, awaken immediately.
  • Vulnerable to coup de grace.
• <0 hp) unconscious and losing 1 hp per turn, unless stabilized.
  • Vulnerable to coup de grace.
  • Con vs 6 each turn to stabilize on your own. On a roll of 1, lose an extra hp.
  • Magic healing, or Int vs 4 with a healers kit, to stabilize.
  • If restored to 1 hp or more, remain Slowed and Dazed for 1d6 Turns.
    • If restored after dropping to -6 or fewer hp, the experience likely leaves serious scars or an impairing wound that will take weeks to fully heal.
• -10 hp) death

Raising the Dead

• See Tampering With Mortality rules (ACKS)

Energy Drain

• Each level of energy drain imposes: -1 attack, -1 save, -5% thief skills, -5 max hp, -1 effective level, and casters lose access to their highest level spell slot.
  • If no slots remain at a level, you're considered unable to cast spells of that level anymore.
  • If energy drain = level: you're broken to the point of becoming an ordinary 0-th level human. You cannot gain levels or return to being an adventurer.
  • If energy drain > level: you are slain, perhaps rising as an undead.
• Energy drain can be removed by...
  • Gaining a level.
  • Receiving a Remove Curse from someone capable of Turning Undead. They must then succeed on a Turning check against the level of the creature that caused the drain (the most powerful such creature, if there are multiple sources of drain), with a -1 penalty per level of drain beyond the first. If successful, all energy drain is removed. If failed, there is no effect (but further castings may succeed).

Fatigue