An injury comes in five degrees of severity: (0) None, (1) Light, (2) Severe, (3) Mortal, (4) Death. Most of the time, if your character suffers an injury, it will be light or severe. Light injuries almost always heal on their own without skilled medical attention - just cleaning and a bandage is all that is needed. Severe injuries require skilled medical attention or they will progress to Mortal injuries. Mortal injuries require skilled medical attention, fully-equipped facilities, and a great deal of recovery time, or they will swiftly progress to Death.

Sometimes, a character will suffer an injury that outright kills them, but these are rare. Sometimes, an injury will leave behind a scar. A scar is a flaw that represents your character's experience with trauma. It can be leveraged for inspiration in the same way as an injury, but without the risk of it progressing to a life-threatening injury. On the other hand, some scars may permanently handicap your character's abilities. Scars rarely heal.

Devnote: What is the 'likely' number of days, for each injury severity, of recovery or death? This would be a good number to know to balance the risk of death/scars.

Reconsider these probabilities.

Should 'Continue' be a constant value?

I feel right now (2023-12-03) like 'Mortal' wounds should still have a 50/50 chance with medical intervention - trope of doctor “doing all they can, the patient is in god's hands now…”. Though usually this trope resolves with the patient recovering, so maybe a 50/50 chance of survival is too slim.

I would love these probabilities to be easy to remember. Where the “w/o medical intervention” values are symmetrical to each other, and the “with med. inter.” values being easy to derive from the “w/o” table using some easy math, like: “move 20% from aggravate towards recovery” or something like that.