Injury

Calamity: [levitating Huey on a platform of water] Ya all right, Huey?

Huey: [pathetically] . . . I got holes in me. :c

-- No Evil, by Betsy Lee, episode 9

Wounds and ailments cause injury, a (usually) temporary loss of Hit Points. Injury often results from “penetrating damage”: the damage left after Damage Resistance is subtracted from the basic damage of an attack. However, disease, overexertion, and the like can cause injury without damage.

General Injury

rules on the effects of lost hit points are found on B419, slowing move+dodge at a third and at negative HP requiring HT rolls to continue conscious/working

FAQ

Regarding Insubstantiality

"You take half *damage.* Damage is the roll before DR. "Half injury" would be after DR." http://www.sjgames.com/gurps/faq/FAQ4-5.html

See Also

• Damage
• Damage Resistance
• Injury Resistance -- unusual body types such as Unliving or Homogenous
• Wounding Modifier -- some attacks do more damage after penetrating armor.