Looking over the health rules of Wraith and comparing them across the other WoD splats and I...noticed something interesting.
In general, Wraith's health rules work a bit differently then the other splats. They have higher base health without need their powers or Merits, they don't suffer wound penalties, Incorporeal means Skinlands damage is trivial, etc.
But then there's aggravated overflow damage. Normally in the other WoD games, if a character's health track is filled and then overflowed with aggravated damage, the character dies permanently. Doesn't matter if you're a vampire, werewolf, changeling, etc. If you get hit with your splat's bane of choice too much, you're done. And in each section this is specifically called out as to what happens.
But in Wraith it...doesn't seem like that's the case. It's never mentioned at all that anything happens when it overflows with agg damage. Just that if their health track is filled with lethal damage, or suffers a point of lethal/agg damage while in the Wavering state, they get Harrowed.
So...am I reading this right? Do Wraiths not instantly die from aggravated damage overflow? They just get sent to a Harrowing? Because if so...that means wraiths have one helluva boon over the other splats.
I mean yeah, a Destruction Harrowing is no picnic, nor is risking the loss of permanent Corpus ...but wraiths still have a chance of coming back out alive. Where the other splats overflow on agg damage, then they're dead-dead.
In general, Wraith's health rules work a bit differently then the other splats. They have higher base health without need their powers or Merits, they don't suffer wound penalties, Incorporeal means Skinlands damage is trivial, etc.
But then there's aggravated overflow damage. Normally in the other WoD games, if a character's health track is filled and then overflowed with aggravated damage, the character dies permanently. Doesn't matter if you're a vampire, werewolf, changeling, etc. If you get hit with your splat's bane of choice too much, you're done. And in each section this is specifically called out as to what happens.
But in Wraith it...doesn't seem like that's the case. It's never mentioned at all that anything happens when it overflows with agg damage. Just that if their health track is filled with lethal damage, or suffers a point of lethal/agg damage while in the Wavering state, they get Harrowed.
So...am I reading this right? Do Wraiths not instantly die from aggravated damage overflow? They just get sent to a Harrowing? Because if so...that means wraiths have one helluva boon over the other splats.
I mean yeah, a Destruction Harrowing is no picnic, nor is risking the loss of permanent Corpus ...but wraiths still have a chance of coming back out alive. Where the other splats overflow on agg damage, then they're dead-dead.
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