Bleeding

bleeding

	Bleeding

bleeding

(damage amount) damage per turn.

bleeding is an effect that causes the affected creature to take damage over time. This damage is specified by whatever caused it.

Every turn, the creature must take a Toughness save against the save difficulty of the bleeding effect, or else take damage based on the strength of the bleeding effect. Typically, the initial difficulty of the save to stop bleeding is 20, but can vary depending on exactly what caused the bleeding.

If a creature succeeds at the Toughness save, they stop bleeding. Otherwise, the save difficulty is reduced by 1 per turn, and the creature makes an additional save attempt each turn until they succeed.

If the creature has Hemophilia, an additional +60 is added to the difficulty save, which causes bleeding to last far longer.

Healing a Bleeding Effect

Applying a single bandage:

• Reduces a bleed effect's save difficulty by 2d62-12 (Avg: 7).
• Reduces a bleed effect's save difficulty by an additional 2d62-12 (Avg: 7) if the creature has the Staunch Wounds skill.
• Takes one turn.

Meditating effectively allows you to heal from bleeding three times faster, because it grants two additional save chances per turn, and reduces the save difficulty by 1 with each of those save attempts.

Bleeding can be stopped immediately by Recuperating.

Things That Cause Bleeding

The following creatures, items, or skills can cause a bleed effect. Note that, in some cases, these things also deal additional damage on top of bleeding.

The Can Stack? column indicates whether multiple bleed effects can be applied simultaneously. (Effects that do not stack instead replace the first bleeding effect currently on the target only if they are stronger than that effect.)

Source	Toughness Save Difficulty	Bleed Damage Per Turn	Can Stack?
ironshroom impalement	30	1d31-3 (Avg: 2)	Yes
young ivory impalement	20	1d21-2 (Avg: 1.5)	Yes
lurking beth impalement	20	1d41-4 (Avg: 2.5)	Yes
holographic ivory impalement	20 (Intelligence save instead of Toughness save)	1d21-2 (Avg: 1.5)	Yes
holographic beth impalement	20 (Intelligence save instead of Toughness save)	1d21-2 (Avg: 1.5)	Yes
twinning lamprey bite	20	1d11	No
Applying or being hit by an empty injector	30	1d2+23-4 (Avg: 3.5)	Yes
Contracting/advancing the stage of Glotrot, or eating/drinking with it	25	1	No
Being decapitated	35	1d2+12-3 (Avg: 2.5)	No
Being dismembered	35	1d21-2 (Avg: 1.5)	No
Suffering a critical hit from a short blade	20 + [attacker Agility modifier]	1d2-10-1 (Avg: 0.5)	Yes
Being affected by the bloodletter effect from a short blade hit (only causes bleed if target has fewer than 1 + [Attacker agility mod] bleeding effects)	20 + [attacker Agility modifier]	1d2-10-1 (Avg: 0.5)	Yes
Being engulfed by a red death dacca (bleed effect only applied once every 3 turns while engulfed)	20	1-21-2 (Avg: 1.5)	No
Wounding Fire attacks with a bow or rifle.	20 + [missile weapon's maximum damage roll]	1 x [number of penetrations]	Yes
A hit by a Fatecaller weapon	1d100	1d101-10 (Avg: 5.5)	No
Horn attacks from a creature with the Horns mutation	20 + (level * 3)	Level 1-3: 1d11 Level 4+: 1d2+[(level-4)/3]	No
Unarmed attacks made while Spiked Gauntlets(favilink error!) are equipped	25	1d31-3 (Avg: 2)	No
Being shield slammed with a spiked shield.	20 + [shield AV]	1d21-2 (Avg: 1.5)	No

Similar Effects

• fractus plants deal damage to creatures that walk through them, and cause a blood splatter, but do not apply a true bleeding effect.

References

Code Note: the boolean Stack parameter of XRL.World.Effects.Bleeding actually has an inverse meaning to what one might initially expect - when true, the effect will not stack in the sense of causing another bleeding effect - but instead will only replace the target's current first bleeding effect if it is more powerful than that existing effect.