Holding Your Breath

Quick Reference
  • Hold your breath for [½ x Constitution] in rounds.
  • After that point, making a Resilience check [DC 20] or you are reduced to 0 hitpoints, Disabled, and Unconscious. If you succeed, repeat the check every round, suffering a cumulative -2 penalty each round, until you fail.
  • If you fail the check, you must make a Resilience check [DC 20] after the next round, or you Suffocate and die. If you succeed, repeat the check every round, suffering a cumulative -2 penalty each round, until you fail.
  • If you've been reduced to 0 Hitpoints from holding your breath, you cannot be healed above 0 Hitpoints until you are able to breathe again.

You can hold your breath, and in some situations may find it necessary to hold it for far longer than you would like to. The Quick Reference guide here reviews the effects of Holding Your Breath for long periods of time. If you lose consciousness from bring unable to breath, you regain consciousness when you can breath again, waking in the following round.