Health

Health is the measure of the bodily integrity of a creature, character, person, item, or object.

The starting Health Points (HP) of a creature is the reduction value of it's name (or the consonants of it's name, for a lower level game), plus it's Guts value, plus the maximum value of a roll of it's Body Stone.

  Starting Health = reduction(Name) + Guts + max(dBody)

An example:

  Creature: Rat (tiny mammal) [d2 body stone]
  Vital: Rat.Guts = T = 2
  R.A.T = 9+1+2 = 12 | 3* (large|average)
  ... thus Rat HP = 3* + 2 (vital) + 2 (body) = [7HP]

Another method is to start with the reduction of the first three letters of the creatures name, these representing it's Sinew, Muscle, and Guts vitals respectively, and then to add the bonus Guts and max(dBody) values as usual. This method concurs with that described in the Sage's text entitled Manifestation of Elfhome (*), and tends to produce creatures with somewhat lower HP totals.

When a creature is damaged or injured by attacks or misadventure, health points equal to this damage are removed from the creature's pool of Health.

If a creature's Health drops to zero or below, it is incapacitated (ie. knocked unconscious). In Fairyland, an unconscious creature heals at a rate of health points per hour equal to it's Guts vital statistic. When it's Health is restored above zero, the creature revives.

It is difficult to truly slay a creature in Fairyland. One must make use of a killing spell (and these are illegal in civilized regions in most applications) or cause an injury that brings a creature's health to a negative value lower than double the targets maximum Body Dice value in one strike.

For example, a medium-sized human with a d6 body dice must be reduced to -12 hp with a single stroke in order to slay him.

A native creature slain in Fairyland is magically reincarnated some days later, usually at a location of a suitable terrain and biome for it's own survival.

A creature not native to Fairyland who is slain within, wakes up at an unspecified time in his homeland, at the location where he originally entered in. His journey in the fay realm might only be dimly remembered, as it were a dream.