Hunger

Hunger and malnourishment affect the body tremendously, but some can survive longer without food than others. How long one can go without food depends on their size and health, their activity level, their current nutrition, and more. This damage rating chart assumes an average human.

Here, we are assuming hunger without thirst - without water, hunger is irrelevant. Refer to the thirst chart below.

Damage can begin in as many as three days, but true danger to life starts within seven days. Some can last as long as three months. For lack of a better metric, we use STR to indicate health level, unless the character has a substat or other characteristic. Anyone with under 8 STR sees hunger damage ratings go up by 2 per point below 8. Those with STR above 10 see hunger damage ratings go down by 1 point per 3 points above 10, starting at 11.

Time without food	Damage rating	Malnourishment effect
1 day	0	Extra tiredness
2 days	1	Burning fat stores
3 days	2	Burning fat stores
5 days	3	Burning fat stores
7 days	4	Muscle breakdown
10 days	5	Muscle breakdown
14 days	6	Organ damage
17 days	6	Organ damage
20 days	7	Bone loss and organ damage
24 days	7	Bone loss and organ damage
28 days	8	Bone loss and organ damage
32 days	8	Bone loss and organ damage
36 days	9	Bone loss, organ damage, immune deficiency
40 days	9	Bone loss, organ damage, immune deficiency
44 days	10	Bone loss, organ damage, immune deficiency
48 days	11	Bone loss, organ damage, immune deficiency
56 days	12	Bone loss, organ damage, immune deficiency
64 days	13	Bone loss, organ damage, immune deficiency
72 days	14	Bone loss, organ damage, immune deficiency
84 days	16	Irreversible body loss
96 days	18	Irreversible body loss

After 96 days, the damage rating goes up three points per every two days. After 120 days, it is three points every day. After 150 days, it is three points every eight hours.

Other symptoms include hair loss, hearing loss, vision loss, fatigue, shortness of breath, feeling cold, loss of menstruation, paleness and anemia, dry skin, constipation, and lack of oxygen in blood. These start after a week.

Permanent STR loss starts after one week. Every exceptional failure after a week sees one point of STR loss, critical failures are three points.

Death comes on three critical failures, six exceptional, twelve special, 24 normal, or 48 ties.

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Thirst

Lack of water kills you fast. In three days time, lack of water is at fatal damage levels. While size and health and other factors may alter this slightly almost any being who needs water dies at the same rate without it.

Time without water	Damage rating
1 day	6
2 days	8
3 days	12
4 days	16
5 days	20
6 days	24
7 days	29
8 days	34
9 days	39
10 days	45

When rolling damage, as well as the general damage to the body, the following symptoms occur:

Roll	Effect
Tie	Dry mouth, dark urine
NF	Headache, dizziness, dry tongue
SF	Muscle cramps, parched body, cool body, trouble thinking
EF	Fainting, confusion, rapid breathing, shriveling, sunken eyes
CF	Shock, heart failure