Pain Suppressant?

By Tunnelhckrat, in Deathwatch

Ok, does pain suppressant totally ignore crit effects or does it delay the effect?

Ex: guy gets his leg blown off, but was on pain suppressant, is the leg fine or is it only fine until the suppressant wears off, then he suffers the ill effects?

Also, is administering the 6 doses in the armor a free action?

This stuff makes the PC extremely hard to kill I think, Not trying to kill them but I want to make the point that they are not invincible.

Tunnelhckrat said:

Ok, does pain suppressant totally ignore crit effects or does it delay the effect?

Ex: guy gets his leg blown off, but was on pain suppressant, is the leg fine or is it only fine until the suppressant wears off, then he suffers the ill effects?

Also, is administering the 6 doses in the armor a free action?

This stuff makes the PC extremely hard to kill I think, Not trying to kill them but I want to make the point that they are not invincible.

Well, the official ruling is a little bit unclear, I find. It's inconceivable that if an ork ripped your leg off, you can run as normal - pain suppressor or no.

So I would say that the pain suppressants temporarily negate stun, fatigue, unconsciousness, negative modifiers, blood loss, etc. resulting from criticals. The effects of losing a leg or an eye still apply though. The former effects get delayed , the latter take effect immediately nonetheless.

Just use common sense with each critical hit is probably the best advise.

Alex

In the heroic last stand rules, it still states that limb loss still effects a character for the purposes of what actions they may take. Given that, I would say yes, even if under pain suppressent, they would have their movement speed affected if they lose a leg. Persoanlly, I would probably give it slightly more than just ignore crit, perhaps an extra multiplier to true grit, and divide all crit damage by 3 instead of 2.