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equired for calming the patient, administering fluids, treating for shock etc.
Notes: ­
Bleeding (see above) is considered as a separate individual wound, regardless of how many wounds were inflicted
No injury may have more than half its damage restored from first aid
Clean crushing injuries cannot benefit from First Aid unless there has been some crippling injury – meaning some
bone is broken or limb badly sprained, that can be set.
Gradual Healing
For each day of rest with adequate food and water, roll vs. HT for up to three separate wounds, plus once for generic
damage, plus once for bleeding damage. A success restores one hit point, and critical success restores two hit points,
and a critical failure means the wound aggravates by one point. All rolls are modified for severity as above. A
successful Physician skill roll adds two to all healing rolls. For bone fractures and critical injuries, refer to the
Comprehensive Combat Table.
Extra Fatigue Advantage
This now costs 5 points per level, not 3.
Loss of Fatigue
Fatigue
Combat: ­ 1 point of fatigue per level of encumbrance, per two minutes of combat, for any combat that lasts longer
than 10 seconds. Note that two minutes of combat is 120 action rounds, so this will generally be per combat session.
Movement: ­ 1 point of fatigue per level of encumbrance, per fatigue interval, as shown below: ­
Move is greater
than...
Up to... Type of Move Fatigue Interval
0 x1/3 Slow ("walking") hour
x1/3 x1/2 Brisk ("jogging") 10 minutes
x1/2 x2/3 Very Brisk ("fast jogging") 1 minute
x2/3 x1 Fast ("running") 20 seconds
x1 x1 + Sprint bonus Sprinting 10 seconds
x1 + Sprint bonus ?? Extra Effort Sprinting 1 second
Long Term Fatigue
In addition to the normal fatigue that is lost from physical exertion, there is a form of Fatigue called Long Term Fatigue
(LTF). LTF is used for such things as starvation fatigue (B128 Sidebar), fatigue from lack of sleep (CII 173), or fatigue
from disease. The difference between normal Fatigue and LTF is that LTF is not recovered until the situation that
caused it is remedied, you get a meal, you get a full night's sleep or you recover from the disease.
This additional rule is that for every 3 FP you lose and recover in a single day, you take one LTF damage. This type of
LTF is treated like starvation fatigue, in that you recover 3 LTF per full day of rest and meals.
For hiking, this means that 5 hours of non­stop hiking will cost you 1 LTF. If you assume that you rest of 30 minutes
every 3 hours, then a 6­hour hike will cost you 1 long­term FP (and you will be able to afford quite a few days of that
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