INJURY AND DEATH

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• Dead (-10 Hit Points Or Lower) - When your character's current hit points drop to -10 or lower, or if he takes massive damage (see above), he's dead.
• Disabled (0 Hit Points) - When your current hit points drop to exactly 0, you're disabled.
• Dying (-1 To -9 Hit Points) - When your character's current hit points drop to between -1 and -9 inclusive, he's dying.
• Healing - After taking damage, you can recover hit points through natural healing or through magical healing.
• Healing Ability Damage - Ability damage is temporary, just as hit point damage is.
• Healing Limits - You can never recover more hit points than you lost.
• Magical Healing - Various abilities and spells can restore hit points.
• Natural Healing - With a full night's rest (8 hours of sleep or more), you recover 1 hit point per character level.
• Loss Of Hit Points - The most common way that your character gets hurt is to take lethal damage and lose hit points
• Effects Of Hit Point Damage - Damage doesn't slow you down until your current hit points reach 0 or lower.
• Massive Damage - If you ever sustain a single attack deals 50 points of damage or more and...
• What Hit Points Represent - Hit points mean two things in the game world: the ability to take physical...
• Nonlethal Damage
• Dealing Nonlethal Damage - Certain attacks deal nonlethal damage. Other effects, such as heat or being exhausted, also deal nonlethal damage.
• Healing Nonlethal Damage - You heal nonlethal damage at the rate of 1 hit point per hour per character level.
• Staggered And Unconscious - When your nonlethal damage equals your current hit points, you're staggered.
• Stable Characters And Recovery - On the next turn after a character is reduced to between -1 and -9 hit...
• Recovering With Help - One hour after a tended, dying character becomes stable, roll d%.
• Recovering Without Help - A severely wounded character left alone usually dies.
• Temporary Hit Points - Certain effects give a character temporary hit points.
• Increases In Constitution Score And Current Hit Points - An increase in a character's Constitution score, even a temporary one,...