Re: [HOE] Sykers and healing [Hopler]

["Steve Crow" <crow_steve@hotmail.com>]

>Im a little confused here.I dont under stand where you got the 22% chance 
>of
>healing a maimed woound and a 0.5% chance of bustin.(mind Im not that good 
>at
>math)

Me neither.  :)

>The base target number for a maimed wound is 11 right? (dont have my book 
>right
>here) and the modifier for a maimed wound is -5 so you need a 16 to suceed. 
>Now
>you have 5d12, each one has a 1 in 12 chance to roll an ace (8.3% per die. 
>now
>if I remember my laws of probability correctly they chance per dice is not
>addative based on how many dice you have...but I am not that good at this 
>math
>stuff so I might be wrong). After you roll the ace, you then need to roll a 
>4 or
>higher.
>That doesnt seem that easy to me.
>

Well one thing that could be misconstrued, although I'm nto sure how it is 
applied here, is that I think the listed difficulty for a Wound _includes_ 
the penalties for healing.  Maybe not.

I know when we first started playing, we wondered if you took Wound 
penalties on top of the difficulty of the Wound level when you made your 
weekly healing rolls, and John Hopler (I think) told us that no, you don't.  
Which makes a certain amount of sense - without supernatural healing, heroes 
would be lying around the Wasted West forever and a day doing nothing but 
healin'!  As Mr. Davidson notes, geez, you'd need to be rolling a 16 once a 
week to recover from a Maimed wound.

(Actually, I might be thinking this question goes way back to our Deadland 
campaign when we wondered about Blessed doing Lay On Hands.)

Now whether we understood that correctly, and whether that may have changed 
in the interim, and whether the same applies to Sykers using Fleshknit, is 
another story...

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Steve Crow

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