Editing The Great Commorragh Campaign Pain (section)

==The Thirst==

I'mg going with the Age mechanics here and folding the 40k Corruption rating into it. The DE will have to make a lot of Age rolls. Every year they make one as if they are over 35. There is an average loss of .93 points in your stats each year this way but you don't actually suffer from them most of the time. So long as you have enough income you basically ignore the thirst. It costs 1L per lost stat point to keep up with it. There will be manorial upgrades that can mitigate this as well. 

You also have to make an Aging roll after each raid into realspace. In this case your excess Pain tokens can protect you. Every 5 tokens negates 1 point of stat loss. 
When you are killed the Haemonculus requires part of your souls as payment. This automatically increases your Corruption by 1 without rolling. 

Not part of the thirst but related is stat loss from Major Wounds. Unlike in Pendragon this can be cured. It takes a Medicae roll and additional recovery time. This means you need a Haemonculus though and they require payment. You can either pay it a retainer fee of 10L each year (yes its expensive) or you can try to barter on the spot, but do you really want to owe a favor to an Ancient? Additionally when you (or any other DE) die in battle we will use the Ransom rules to see how much it costs you to have someone bring you back to be revived. Your own NPC followers work for a reduced rate (subtract their Fear (you) passion from the amount) and you can tax the people of your turf for half the final cost without increasing their Hate.