Editing Savage Worlds (section)

=== Damage ===
Characters in Savage Worlds don't have "hit points" that must be eroded to defeat the opponent.  Instead, a contest is made against the target's Toughness stat.  In the case of mortal combat, on a successful attack the attacker would roll the weapon's damage dice versus the target's Toughness as the target number.  A success means the target has the "Shaken" status.  Characters (and groups of mooks) that are "Shaken" can take no action other than moving at half-speed and attempting to recover by rolling Spirit trait (default target number of 4).  Getting hit again while "Shaken" will incapacitate mooks and wound important characters. Each raise on the damage roll will instantly wound (or kill a mook), as well as Shaking the target. Important "wild card" characters suffer a -1 penalty to all rolls for each wound, up to -3.  The next wound after that incapacitates them and they're removed from the fight.  "Wild card" characters can try to avoid being wounded by spending a benny to make a 'Soak Roll' (Vigor trait test), with each success and subsequent raise dismissing a wound.