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Endurance (Cyberpunk RED)

Skills

Definition

Endurance represents your body's ability to withstand physical punishment, fatigue, and harsh conditions. It covers resisting the effects of drugs, toxins, and disease, enduring long periods of physical exertion, and powering through pain that would stop lesser people. Endurance uses your WILL stat and is your physical toughness beyond simple hit points. Night City tests your body constantly—running from pursuit through polluted streets, staying awake for days on a stakeout, resisting the effects of combat drugs wearing off, or enduring torture without breaking. Characters with high Endurance keep going when others collapse. In a world where stim patches and combat drugs are common, Endurance also determines how well you handle the chemical cocktails that edgerunners pump into their bodies to keep fighting.

How it works

**Linked Stat**: WILL **Key Uses**: - Resisting the effects of drugs, toxins, and poisons - Enduring extended physical activity without rest - Powering through pain and injury - Resisting disease and environmental hazards **Additional**: Endurance checks are often called by the GM when conditions would cause fatigue or physical distress. Failure usually means penalties to other actions.

Tips

**Build Advice**: Valuable for frontline combatants and anyone who expects to be in rough physical situations. High WILL characters get this as a bonus. **Synergies**: Pairs with Athletics for overall physical capability and Concentration for complete resilience against both physical and mental pressure. **Character Concepts**: Marathon runner, hardened street survivor, combat drug user, nomad wastelander accustomed to harsh conditions.

Frequently asked questions

How does Endurance differ from having high HP?

HP represents how much damage you can take. Endurance covers resisting fatigue, toxins, disease, and harsh conditions—things that don't necessarily deal direct damage but still incapacitate you.