Editing Wound Table

[[File:Harn 3e injury table.jpg|thumb|400px|The HarnMaster 3e Injury Table]]
'''Wound Tables''' or '''Injury Tables''' are a mechanic used by simulationist games like [[HarnMaster]] and [[The Riddle of Steel]] as an alternative to [[Hit Point]]s. 

The general idea is that, on a successful hit, the attacker chooses or rolls for a hit location. Then, on the victim's character sheet, a wound is recorded for that location and with a certain level of severity depending on the damage dealt.

Wounds typically give you bad effects with names like Pain, Shock, or Blood Loss. These effects last for a certain number of rounds or until medical treatment. In the case of Blood Loss, there is typically a counter ticking down to your death.

Wound tables bypass the problems of HP Bloat, since the most serious wounds cause instant death. They also allow for more exciting combat, since you get more feedback on ''how'' you're killing enemies instead of just a damage number, and characters get physically weaker with every wound. Despite this, they remain a niche mechanic, since they require the use of a table (or multiple tables!) for ''every hit'', and require the GM  and players to keep track of the multiple values associated with each wound rather than one number: HP.

==Hybrid Systems==
Some systems use a hybrid form with both hit points and wounds.

*In [[GURPS]], certain critical hits, and any hit that deals more than half your HP in damage causes a Major Wound, which can cripple limbs, knock you prone, and more.

*In [[RuneQuest]], HP is divided between 7 different hit locations on the body. Whenever a single hit location reaches 0 HP, the characer takes a Serious Wound. If the body part is a limb, it is crippled. If the torso or head run out of HP, worse things happen.

*The [[Grim Hollow]] 3rd party setting for [[5e]] has an optional rule for Grievous Wounds. Whenever someone is reduced to 0 hitpoints, they roll on the Grievous Wounds table.

*Both the [[Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay]] and FFG [[Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay]] systems had Wounds acting as abstract HP, but once those wounds reach 0, any damage suffered would instead inflict Critical Wounds (with different effects depending on the weapon used) onto a certain location of the body (determined by being the reverse of what the hit rolled).

==Gallery==
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wound wheels s&s.jpg|The Wound Wheels system used by [[Sword & Scoundrel]]. Attacker chooses a wheel and rolls 1d6. Swings target the outside of the wheel, thrusts target the inside.
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