In Aftermath, characters will find themselves in danger from both nature and each other. As such, your characters can acquire a variety of physical wounds, ranging from bruises to lost limbs. Similarly, your character can become ill or poisoned to varying degrees of severity.

Wounds come in three levels of severity: superficial, serious, and permanent.

Getting rid of wounds takes a major action from your own character and the character healing your character. The character doing the healing can heal two people with one major action, whilst being healed takes a full major action. The medical skills to remove a wound depend on how bad the wound is, as in the table above. You don't need to do anything to get rid of superficial wounds.

A serious wound will last two full turnsheets. Once it has been treated, it will only affect one more turn.

Some wounds, such as loss of a limb, are permanent and cannot be removed. However, with advanced medical skills, their effects on your character can be reduced. For example, creating a prosthetic leg for someone who has lost their own.