Exalted Lite/Health

Health

Health follows the new World of Darkness rules slightly. All characters have a number of health levels based on their [[../Stature|Stature]], see those rules for the basics.

Damage

There are three kinds of damage:

• Bashing damage, which is (usually) not dangerous, but can cause penalties or knock a character unconscious. Different kinds of attacks may cause Bashing damage to different beings.
• Lethal damage, which is the typical kind of damage where someone is supposed to die.
• Aggravated damage, which involves permanent damage in one fashion or another.

Aggravated damage is, effectively, a reduction of the character's maximum health levels, overwriting previous damage. For example

• A character has twelve (12) health levels, and seven points of lethal damage to them.
• She takes two levels of aggravated damage. She now has a maximum health level total of 10, and 5 levels of lethal damage.
• Unless she is exalted or has access to similarly miraculous healing, she only recovers back to having 10 health levels. The aggravated damage will normally scar her for life.

Lethal damage does not overwrite Bashing damage, instead pushing it down until all levels are filled.

Once all health levels are filled, the Character falls unconcious, and further damage of the same type begins to add the next level.

• Further Bashing damage converts Bashing damage into Lethal damage, requiring the victims ([[../Might|Might]] + [[../Essence|Essence]]) in Bashing damage to deal a point of Lethal.
• Further Lethal damage converts Lethal wounds into Aggravated wounds, again taking (Might + Essence) points of damage for one level of Aggravated wounds. Lethal damage overwrites bashing damage at this point.
• Further Aggravated damage, if the victim is still alive, has no further effect, except to cripple the character even more.

• Characters add 1 to all difficulties when they have lost over half of their health levels, unless they have the Pain Tolerance [[../Knack|Knack]].
• Once a character's health levels are completely filled out, they are unconscious.
• Once a Minor Character suffers a level of Aggravated damage when all her health levels are lethal or aggravated wounds, she is dead.
• Once a Major Character suffers a level of Aggravated damage when all her health levels are aggravated wounds, she is dead.

Healing

• Minor Characters heal their [[../Natural|Natural]] (Healing) + Essence Lethal wounds per year, and Natural (Healing) + Essence Bashing wounds per day. They never heal Aggravated wounds.
• Major Characters heal their Essence in Aggravated wounds per year, Natural (Healing) + Essence in Lethal Wounds per Month, and Natural (Healing) + Essence Bashing wounds per day.
  • UnExalted only recover Lethal wounds with rest, and aggravated wounds with rest and care.
• Exalted Characters heal Natural (Healing) + Essence Aggravated wounds per month, Natural (Healing) + Essence Lethal wounds per week, and Natural + Essence Bashing wounds per hour.
  • Exalted do not need to rest to heal.
  • Exalted can recover from broken, crushed or lost limbs in time. Recovering a lost limb (arm or leg) counts as a separate aggravated damage pool equal to the character's normal, full health level total.
  • The Body-Mending Meditation [[../Talent|Talent]] speeds up healing.

Resilience

Resilience subtracts from the damage rating of an attack, significantly reducing damage.

• Characters have a Resilience equal to their (Might (Resilience))/2.
• Armor increases Resilience
• Resilience cannot normally reduce the damage of an attack below half the attacker's permanent Essence.
• The Rhino-Hide Meditation Talent adds the character's [[../Essence|Essence]] to her Resilience.