General Injury: Lost Hit Points

Repeated wounding eventually
causes anyone or anything to weaken
and collapse, even if no single injury is
very great. The chart below summa-
rizes the effects of being at low or neg-
ative HP. All effects are cumulative.
Less than 1/3 your HP left – You
are reeling from your wounds.
Halve your Move and Dodge
(round up).
0 HP or less – You are in immediate
danger of collapse. In addition to
the above effects, make a HT roll at
the start of your next turn, at -1 per
full multiple of HP below zero.
Failure means you fall unconscious
(or simply stop working, if you
weren’t truly alive or conscious in
the first place); see Recovering from
Unconsciousness (p. 423). Success
means you can act normally, but
must roll again every turn to con-
tinue functioning. Exception: If you
choose Do Nothing on your turn,