Resist Pain

Resist Pain
Sample specializations:
none
This
skill allows a character to temporarily ignore the detrimental effects of
physical damage. The character is not getting rid of the damage; its effects
just don’t bother him for a little while. The more severe the injuries, the
harder it will be for a character to ignore the effects. The skill can only be
used to ignore the penalties caused by wound damage; it cannot be used against
shock damage or knockout conditions. Because the skill represents a physical
increase in the body’s capacity to handle pain, it can only be used against
physical wound damage; it will have no effect on any penalties caused by mental
or spiritual wounds. The character generates a resist pain skill
total against a difficulty equal to 10 + his wound level and the results are
read through the power push table in Chapter Four. This result indicates how much
of a wound penalty the character can temporarily ignore. For example, if a
character is suffering from a -3 wound penalty and generates a result of +1 on
a resist pain check,
his wound penalty is temporarily reduced to -2.
This
skill cannot be
used as a macro skill as the pain can only be ignored for a maximum of ten
combat rounds, or until the character takes any more physical damage. Once the
effects of resist pain have
ended, the character cannot attempt to use the skill again until after he has
rested and healed some of his damage. At gamemaster’s discretion, the willpower skill can
be used in the same manner as resist
pain.