Limits of Mortals

Lingering injuries, resting, exhaustion and resurrection

The following rules are in place for mortal heroes on Reluria.

Lingering Injuries: A character gains one level of exhaustion each time they suffer one of the following effects:

• When they take a critical hit.
• When they drop to 0 hit points but are not killed outright
• When they fail a death saving throw by 5 or more

Resting:

• Short rests and long rests follow the standard rules, except that a long rest at an dangerous or hostile location does not restore all hit points. See the next step.

Healing:

• Roll hit dice to regain hit points whenever you are resting (long or short) at an dangerous or hostile location .
• A character can't spend any Hit Dice after finishing a rest until someone expends one use of the healer's kit to bandage and treat the characters wounds.

Exhaustion

• While you are subjected to the Exhausted Condition, you experience the following effects:
• Levels of Exhaustion. This Condition is cumulative. Each time you receive it, you gain 1 level of exhaustion. You die if your exhaustion level exceeds 10.
• d20 Rolls Affected. When you make a d20 Test, you subtract your exhaustion level from the d20 roll.
• Spell Save DCs Affected. Subtract your exhaustion level from the Spell save DC of any Spell you cast.
• Ending the Condition. Finishing a Long Rest removes 1 of your levels of exhaustion. When your exhaustion level reaches 0, you are no longer Exhausted.

Resurrection (based on Mercer's rules) - When a resurrection spell is attempted, it causes a resurrection challenge.

• Up to 3 members of the adventuring party can offer to contribute to the ritual via a contribution skill check.
• The DM asks each of them to make a skill check based on their form of contribution, with the DC of the check adjusting to how helpful/impactful the DM feels the contribution would be.
• After all the contributions are completed, the DM rolls a single final resurrection success check with no modifier.
• The base DC for the final resurrection check is 10.
• It increases by 1 for each previous successful resurrection the character has undergone (signifying the slow erosion of the soul's connection to this world).
• For each successful contribution skill check, this DC is decreased by 3.
• For each failed contribution skill check, the DC is increased by 1.