A TN 2 Medicine (Water) support action will remove fatigue equal to 1 + bonus successes. A TN 2 Medicine (Water) downtime action will remove fatigue equal to the healer's water ring plus bonus successes. A TN 4 Medicine (Water) downtime action is required to remove the Lightly Wounded and Heavily Wounded condition. Water is olso used for identifying helpful and harmful herbs, gathering ingredients, finding hazards and contaminants in an environment, brewing remedies (Adapt), relieving exhaustion and pain (Adapt), speeding patients’ recovery from long-term illness and injury (Adapt).
Details
If a character's fatigue exceeds their endurance, they are Incapacitated and unable to defend or take effective actions.
At the end of each scene, characters catch their breath. Each character reduces their fatigue to half of their endurance (rounded up) if it is over half their endurance. After a full night’s rest, a character heals fatigue equal to two times their Water Ring.
First Aid
Helping with swift recovery in the field is a key use of Medicine. As a Support action, a character may make a TN 2 Medicine (Water) check targeting a character at range 0–1. If the healer succeeds, the target removes fatigue equal to 1 plus the healer’s bonus successes and cannot benefit from the First Aid action again until they have been treated more thoroughly, such as with the Treatment downtime activity.
Treatment
While quick action in the field can get a character back on their feet, long-term care is also important. As a downtime activity, a character may make a TN 2 Medicine (Water) check targeting a convalescing character in the scene. If the healer succeeds, the target removes fatigue equal to the healer’s Water Ring plus their bonus successes. The healer may spend * + to a to affect one additional target per * spent this way.
At the end of each scene, characters catch their breath. Each character reduces their fatigue to half of their endurance (rounded up) if it is over half their endurance. After a full night’s rest, a character heals fatigue equal to two times their Water Ring.
- Incapacitated: An Incapacitated character cannot perform actions that require checks and cannot defend against damage. After an Incapacitated character suffers a critical strike, they suffer the Unconscious condition in addition to any other effects. Any subsequent strikes cause a Critical Strike which can induce the other conditions below.
Removed When: An Incapacitated character removes this condition when their fatigue is reduced to a value lower than or equal to their endurance.
First Aid
Helping with swift recovery in the field is a key use of Medicine. As a Support action, a character may make a TN 2 Medicine (Water) check targeting a character at range 0–1. If the healer succeeds, the target removes fatigue equal to 1 plus the healer’s bonus successes and cannot benefit from the First Aid action again until they have been treated more thoroughly, such as with the Treatment downtime activity.
Treatment
While quick action in the field can get a character back on their feet, long-term care is also important. As a downtime activity, a character may make a TN 2 Medicine (Water) check targeting a convalescing character in the scene. If the healer succeeds, the target removes fatigue equal to the healer’s Water Ring plus their bonus successes. The healer may spend * + to a to affect one additional target per * spent this way.
- Bleeding: When a Bleeding character makes a check, they suffer physical damage equal to the Strife symbols on their kept dice, ignoring their resistances. Each time damage inflicted this way causes the character to suffer a critical strike, the severity of the critical strike is treated as being equal to the character’s current fatigue.
Removed When: Any character at range 0–1 of a Bleeding character may make a TN 2 Medicine (Earth) check as a Support action to remove the Bleeding condition. - Lightly Wounded: A Lightly Wounded character increases the TN of their checks with the affected ring by 1. If they become Lightly Wounded for the same ring, they become Severely Wounded.
Removed When: Any character can provide treatment by making a TN 4 Medicine (Water) check as a downtime activity, or once per week per wounded ring, a character on Bedrest may make a TN 3 Fitness check using that ring (and ignoring the modifiers to the TN the condition normally applies). If they succeed, the injured character removes Lightly Wounded. - Severely Wounded: A Severely Wounded character increases the TN of their checks with the affected ring by 3. If they become Severely Wounded again or Lightly Wounded for the same ring, they remove it and suffer a critical strike of severity 8 (Permanent Injury) instead.
Removed When: Any character can provide treatment by making a TN 4 Medicine (Water) check as a downtime activity, or once per week per wounded ring, a character on Bedrest may make a TN 3 Fitness check using that ring (and ignoring the modifiers to the TN the condition normally applies). If they succeed, the injured character reduces Severely Wounded to Lightly Wounded. - Unconscious: An Unconscious character cannot move, perform actions, or otherwise significantly act upon the physical world. An Unconscious character may spend 1 Void point to awaken immediately, their instincts rousing them in time to defend against damage. Characters also generally awaken after several hours.
- Dying [X Rounds]: A Dying character lives for a number of rounds (or an amount of narrative time) specified by the effect that applied the Dying condition. Once the allotted time has passed, the character perishes at the end of their next turn (or after completing one task in a narrative scene). If the Dying condition is removed before then, the character stabilizes and narrowly survives their close brush with death.
Removed When: Any character at range 0–1 of a Dying character may make a TN 4 Medicine (Air) check as a Support action to remove the Dying condition. If they fail, reduce the number of rounds remaining for the Dying condition by their shortfall.
Opportunity Uses |
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For First Aid: Healer may affect one additional target per * * spent this way. |
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For Treatment: Healer may affect one additional target per * spent this way. |
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Spot a unique or identifying quality, aspect, or ability of something that you are treating. |
Opportunity Uses |
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If you failed, determine the easiest way to accomplish the task you were attempting (skill and approach). |
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Remove 1 strife you gained from this check per * spent this way. |
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Provide assistance to the next character to attempt a check to accomplish something similar |
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If you failed, provide assistance to the next character trying to accomplish the same action (p. 298 CRB) |
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Remove 2 strife from yourself. |
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Perform the task efficiently, completing it more quickly or saving supplies. Extra * further reduces the time or materials expended. |
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Spot an interesting physical detail present in your environment not directly related to your check. At the GM’s discretion, you may establish a piece of terrain or a mundane object nearby. |
Healing + Water Shuji Opportunities
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Special Circumstance Opportunities
In Shadowlands
**+ By luck or careful scavenging, you are able to find a useful item not yet corrupted by the Shadowlands. Such items have a maximum rarity of 3, plus 1 for each additional ** spent. The GM should modify this depending on the exact nature of the item as well.
Against Tainted Threats
* You adapt yourself to better fight the corrupted power before you. Once before the end of current the game session you may either reduce the TN of a check to resist a Tainted power, such as a mahō technique, assailing you by 1 or increase the TN of another character’s check to target or affect you with such a power by 1.
While Tainted
** You briefly become fluid in mind or body, shaking off disorientation or even injury. You remove one of the following conditions: Dazed, Disoriented, Immobilized, Intoxicated, Lightly Wounded, or Prone.
In Contested Territory
* * * You create a clever disguise or ruse to get the jump on potential foes. The next time you enter a conflict scene this session, after initiative has been determined, choose one character in the scene. On that character's next check, they must reroll all results containing non-explosive Success symbols.
* * + Your charm wins over even enemies. For each * * spent, one hostile character within the scene becomes friendlier toward you. What exactly that means depends on context -- it may defuse an imminent conflict, or encourage your foes to try to take you alive, but it won't stop bloodshed altogether once blades have been drawn.
* * With cunning, you flow smoothly from one conclusion to the next. You learn of one key feature, fortification, or terrain quality present in the surrounding area, and whether or not enemies have passed through recently.
* * + Your charm wins over even enemies. For each * * spent, one hostile character within the scene becomes friendlier toward you. What exactly that means depends on context -- it may defuse an imminent conflict, or encourage your foes to try to take you alive, but it won't stop bloodshed altogether once blades have been drawn.
* * With cunning, you flow smoothly from one conclusion to the next. You learn of one key feature, fortification, or terrain quality present in the surrounding area, and whether or not enemies have passed through recently.