Hit Points¶

Hit Points (HP) measure how much fight an Operator has left in them. They are not a literal count of wounds - a high HP total is the abstraction for armor that took the hit, body armor that bruised but didn't break, the round that clipped a magazine instead of an artery, and the will to keep moving anyway. When HP runs out, real damage starts.

Where you sit on your HP track puts you in one of five Triage Codes, the in-universe label medics use over comms to describe a casualty's state. Triage Code drives natural healing, exhaustion penalties, and which medical features can be applied to you.

Calculating Hit Points¶

From the Operator Class:

1^st level: 10 + your full Constitution score (the score, not the modifier).
Each level after 1^st: 1d10 (or 6) + Constitution modifier.
Hit Dice: 1d10 per Operator level. Used to recover HP on a short rest.

Example: Falke (CON 11) starts at 21 HP. He levels to 2^nd and rolls a 7 on his Hit Die, so he gains 7 + 0 = 7 HP, putting him at 28 max. At 3^rd level he takes the average instead, gaining 6 + 0 = 6 HP, for 34 max.

Taking Damage¶

When you are hit, the attacker deals a damage roll. Subtract the result from your current HP. Two things modify the incoming number before it lands:

Armor / cover absorbs damage according to the Armor rules and any Damage Reduction (DR) granted by gear.
Damage type can trigger side effects in addition to the HP loss - bleed, slowed, stunned, deafened, etc. See Damage Types.

If the hit is on Red or Orange triage, piercing and slashing damage can also start Bleed or Major Bleed, which keeps draining HP between turns until stopped.

Triage Code¶

Every character always has exactly one Triage Code, derived from their current HP as a percentage of maximum.

Code	% Health	Natural Healing	Exhaustion
5: Black, Deceased	0%	None	5
4: Red, Critically Wounded	1%-25%	Must get medical help; Hit Dice no longer heal; 10 HP per 1 healed	2
3: Orange, Wounded	26%-50%	5 HP per 1 healed	1
2: Yellow, Injured	51%-75%	2 HP per 1 gained	-
1: Green, Healthy	76%-100%	Normal rate	-

The right-hand columns drive a few important downstream rules:

Natural Healing scales the value of every HP point you would recover from rest, Hit Dice, or non-medical sources. At Yellow you only get 1 HP for every 2 the source rolled; at Red you get 1 HP for every 10 and you can no longer spend Hit Dice. Field medics (Combat Medic, Stim Pack, Quick Clot, etc.) bypass this divisor.
Exhaustion is added to your standing exhaustion total while you remain at that Code. Drop back up the track and the bonus exhaustion lifts.
Second Wind, Stim Pack, several Unit Leader features, and any other ability that lists a Triage requirement only fires inside its named Codes. See each feature.

Example: Falke is at 34 max HP and currently sits at 12 HP - that is 35%, putting him at Orange. He spends a Hit Die on a short rest and rolls 7. Orange's natural-healing column says "5 HP per 1 healed," so the 7 becomes 1 HP healed (7 ÷ 5, rounded down). He's still at 13 HP and still Orange. If a medic hits him with a Stim Pack instead, the divisor doesn't apply.

Going Down at 0 HP¶

When damage drops your current HP to 0 (and not to deceased outright), you are Downed. Mechanically:

You fall Unconscious and Prone. You drop whatever you were holding.
Your HP stays at 0; further damage triggers death saves, not subtraction.
At the start of every one of your turns while Downed, roll a death saving throw.

Death Saving Throws¶

A death save is a 1d20 roll with no modifier. It is not a saving throw for the purposes of features that modify saves, unless a feature explicitly says so.

10 or higher → success. Track the count.
9 or lower → failure. Track the count.
Natural 20 → you regain 1 HP and stand back up at Yellow's lower bound (still Wounded, but conscious).
Natural 1 → counts as two failures.

Reaching 3 successes before 3 failures: you are stable. You stop rolling, but you are still at 0 HP and still unconscious. After 1d4 hours you regain 1 HP and wake up at Triage Red. Any healing during the stable window also wakes you immediately at the new HP value.

Reaching 3 failures before 3 successes: you die. Triage Code drops to Black.

Damage While Downed¶

Taking any damage while at 0 HP costs you a death-save failure - 1 failure for a normal hit, 2 failures for a hit within 5 ft (point-blank execution shot) or for any hit that crits. If the single hit's damage equals or exceeds your HP maximum, you die outright (instant Black) with no further saves.

Stabilizing a Casualty¶

A nearby ally can stop the bleed without restoring HP:

Wisdom (Medicine) check, DC 10 as an action. Success = the casualty is stable. Failure = no progress, try again.
A medical item with the stops-bleed tag (see Gear) auto-stabilizes a Bleeding casualty.
A medical item with the revives tag (e.g. Smelling Salts, certain Stims) can bring an unconscious target back to Yellow at GM discretion.
Several Combat Medic features stabilize and heal in the same action.

A stable casualty is still at 0 HP and Triage Code Red - they are not back in the fight, just not actively dying. Get them to a medic.

Example: Falke takes a burst that drops him from 4 HP to -7. He's at 0 HP, Downed, Unconscious, Prone. On his next turn he rolls a death save: 8 → 1 failure. The medic crawls over and rolls a Wisdom (Medicine) check against DC 10: 14 → success, Falke is stable. He stays at 0 HP / Triage Red until he gets healing or 1d4 hours pass. A teammate's Stim Pack ten seconds later puts 12 HP back on him - he wakes up immediately at Triage Yellow.

Healing¶

HP comes back from a few sources. The Triage Code natural-healing divisor applies to non-medical sources only.

Source	Amount	Cost / Cooldown
Second Wind	`1d10 + Operator level`	Bonus action; once per short or long rest. Triage Orange or better.
Hit Dice on a short rest	Per die: `1d10 + CON mod`	Each die spent. Cannot spend dice at Triage Red.
Long rest	Full HP; recover up to half your Hit Dice	8 hours.
Medical gear (IFAK, Stims, Quick Clot, Liquid Skin Patch)	Item-specific	Action; consumes the item. Bypasses divisor.
Combat Medic features	Feature-specific	Per feature; many bypass the Triage divisor.
Unit Leader Get In The Fight die	`1d10 + Unit Leader level`	Action; only on targets at Triage Yellow or Green.

Compared to Classic D&D 5E¶

HP is mechanically the same number, but the system layers Triage Code on top to model that taking serious damage actually slows your recovery and stacks exhaustion.
Hit Dice work as in classic 5E (1d10 here, like a Fighter), but the Triage divisor can shrink what each die actually delivers if you're already hurt.
Death saving throws work exactly as in classic 5E - 3/3, nat 20 stands you up, nat 1 counts double, hits at 0 HP cost a failure (or two if within 5 ft or critical).
The "stable" state lasts 1d4 hours before you wake at 1 HP, same as classic 5E.
Bleed (added by piercing/slashing on Red or Orange) replaces classic 5E's "you don't bleed out unless you fail saves" - here you can be both stable on death saves and still actively losing HP from a Bleed condition until someone stops it.