Resurrection Healing and STUN or "How much STUN does a corpse have?"

[Galendir]

If a character with Resurrection Healing is "killed", how is his current STUN determined when his 'Resurrection' kicks in?

Is it based on the last STUN value he had prior to/at the moment of death? Is it always zero? Is it determined in some other way?

 

Example: Lazarus the Luckless has base score of BODY:10 and STUN:30

He has Resurrection Healing which takes effect 24 hours after death.

 

Case 1: After an ambush, he is at -8 BODY and 12 STUN when an arrow hits him doing 2 BODY and 6 STUN, killing him. (At the point of death, he had 6 STUN.)

 

Case 2: He is beaten to death by a mob. By the time he bleeds to -10 BODY and dies, he is at -40 STUN. He is continually beaten for a short time after this before his Resurrection Healing begins to work. (Does any damage from the continued beating have any effect?)

 

Case 3: He is shipwrecked, and drowns. After several days his body is washed ashore by the current.

 

When he takes his first breath back among the living, is his STUN different in each case?

 

Related questions:

 

Can a person's BODY fall below negative his base BODY from normal/killing damage?

 

Is there any limit to how much negative STUN a person can accrue?

 

Does a person with Regeneration bleed normally?

 

Does Regeneration have any effect on STUN?

[Steve Long]

Re: Resurrection Healing and STUN or "How much STUN does a corpse have?"

 

1. Assume the character has 0 STUN when he Resurrects to positive BODY, unless the GM prefers otherwise. The process of taking Recoveries then commences as normal.

 

2. See the Rules FAQ under “BODY.”

 

3. It’s up to the GM to determine a reasonable cap for accrual of STUN damage, if he thinks it’s appropriate to do so; the typical method would be some multiple of the character’s starting STUN.

 

4. Yes.

 

5. Generally, no. See the Rules FAQ regarding optional forms of Regeneration.