Wound

Wounds are fresh injuries to one of the fourteen separate body locations, commonly received as part of combat. Each wound has a severity level between 1 and 3. Minor wounds (level 1) have minimal effects aside from combat maneuver penalties. More severe wounds will typically bleed and carry substantial mechanical penalties, and may prevent characters from performing certain actions.

The severity of a inflicted wound depends on the critical portion of the combat system, and may be reduced by wearing more protective armor.

Empaths or herbs can heal wounds. Herbal healing will leave a scar.

Limbs

Location	Lvl. 1	Lvl. 2	Lvl. 3
right leg	some minor cuts and bruises on your right leg	a fractured and bleeding right leg	a completely severed right leg
left leg	some minor cuts and bruises on your left leg	a fractured and bleeding left leg	a completely severed left leg
right arm	some minor cuts and bruises on your right arm	a fractured and bleeding right arm	a completely severed right arm
left arm	some minor cuts and bruises on your left arm	a fractured and bleeding left arm	a completely severed left arm
right hand	some minor cuts and bruises on your right hand	a fractured and bleeding right hand	a completely severed right hand
left hand	some minor cuts and bruises on your left hand	a fractured and bleeding left hand	a completely severed left hand

Arms

• level 1 - A minor scratch, and has almost no effect on the character.
• level 2 - The arm is broken, and the character will be hindered in using the arm in tasks such as foraging, skinning, or tending wounds. An archer cannot fire a bow with a broken arm, nor can a hurler throw a weapon. Having two broken arms will prevent a character from searching or looting their kills. Spellcasting is possible with a single arm wound up to level 2, but not if both arms are injured (even if the other arm is has only a level 1 wound).
• level 3 - The arm is severed. The arm cannot be used for anything, such as picking up and holding items, using a weapon, or using a shield. A character that loses a limb will not drop the item they're carrying in that hand, but they will not be able to use it, and once the item is put somewhere else, the hand will be unavailable to pick anything else up.

Legs

• level 1 - The wound will not hinder a character in any noticeable way.
• level 2 - A broken leg. It hinders a character when hiding, prevents them from sneaking to another room when hidden, and lowers the chances of successfully standing. This level of wound also bleeds at a moderate rate.
• level 3 - The leg is severed and bleeding. Upon suffering a level 3 leg wound, a character will fall to the ground. A creature will not be able to stand with a severed leg unless it has more than two legs, though a character can stand with a significant penalty.

System

Nervous system wounds can be caused by drawing more mana than in a character's mana pool.

Location	Lvl. 1	Lvl. 2	Lvl. 3
nervous system	a strange case of muscle twitching	a case of sporadic convulsions	a case of uncontrollable convulsions

• level 1 - The character will twitch abnormally when using the TWITCH verb.
• level 2 - The character cannot search their victims or prepare any spells except empath circle spells.
• level 3 - The character will die if she attempts to use mana beyond their mana capacity. Since they cannot prepare spells, this is usually a moot issue, however members of the Council of Light are not prevented from drawing a sign, and since some signs drain mana, it is possible for them to kill themselves this way.

Head

Location	Lvl. 1	Lvl. 2	Lvl. 3
head	minor bruises about the head	minor lacerations about the head and a possible mild concussion	severe head trauma and bleeding from the ears
neck	minor bruises on your neck	moderate bleeding from your neck	snapped bones and serious bleeding from the neck

Head

• level 1 - A minor scratch to the head will not be seriously effected by the wound.
• level 2 - A possible concussion, and will bleed minorly. Reduces a character's perception, slightly. It will also prevent a character from preparing spells, hiding, and likely also reduces a character's aim when ambushing or when using a ranged weapon as well as hinders the character's experience absorption.
• level 3 - A cracked skull. Reduces perception significantly as well as hinders the character's experience absorption.

Neck

Neck wounds have the highest rate of bleeding but few secondary effects.

Organs

Location	Lvl. 1	Lvl. 2	Lvl. 3
chest	minor cuts and bruises on your chest	deep lacerations across your chest	deep gashes and serious bleeding from your chest
abdomen	minor cuts and bruises on your abdominal area	deep lacerations across your abdominal area	deep gashes and serious bleeding from your abdominal area
back	minor cuts and bruises on your back	deep lacerations across your back	deep gashes and serious bleeding from your back
right eye	a bruised right eye	a swollen right eye	a blinded right eye
left eye	a bruised left eye	a swollen left eye	a blinded left eye

Resources

• Wound (saved posts)