Re: [HOE] Sykers and healing [Hopler]

[Abdullah Oblongota <toadpooka@juno.com>]

Wow.  I've been doing that wrong...
Page 98, HoE rulebook:
"Maimed is, well, maimed...if a leg or arm becomes maimed, it's severed,
crushed, burned to a charred stump, or whatever.  Another wound beyond
maimed to a limb means it cannot be healed by medicine or even magic."

Here, the rules indicate that you can naturally heal severed limbs, as
long as the arm didn't take an additional wound AFTER it fell off the
body.  Damn silly.

Page 104, HoE rulebook:
The doctor has to roll once for each area wounded in the golden hour.  If
successful, the roll reduces the area's wounds by one level. The TN and
time it takes to heal someone depends on the wound level.  Maimed limbs
cannot be healed by normal means, but the doc can still try to stop the
bleeding."

Here, you can't help a Maimed wound at all.  I imagine the TN is listed
on the chart for powers that can heal Maimings, or possibly for treating
Wind loss.

My take on it is thus: Medicine or natural healing can't help a Maimed
limb.  Supernatural stuff can, but only if the power says it can.  Stick
HARD to the difference between Medicine: general and Medicine: surgery,
and don't allow anyone to have higher surgery than general.  Make the doc
stop all Wind loss using the Goff method (cut Wind loss off 1 per success
and raise) BEFORE doing any medicine rolls to heal wounds.  After all,
how many doctors perform surgery with the patient bleeding all over the
operating table?
That, and the "Wind" entry on the Healin' table on page 104 is merely for
curing lost Wind.  That's the difficulty for putting an icepack on
someone's forehead and kissing their boo-boo, not clamping down a
firehose of viscera.  For stopping Wind loss, I'm going to have my
players roll against the TN of the wound (yes, that's once for the
bleedin' and once for the wound. Ouch), but they can use medicine:
general for all levels of Wind loss.
As for the thing on page 98 about healing Maimed wounds naturally, I'm
ignoring it.  One thing to remember is that a limb doesn't have to be
severed to be a lost cause.  Very few people who lose limbs to injuries
have them lopped clean off.  Usually, they take enough damage to be a
threat to the rest of the body and a doctor amputates to save the
victim's life.  Bullets, burns and disease can cause the loss of a limb
just as easily as a sword.

On Tue, 01 Aug 2000 14:40:59 -0600 Allan Seyberth <darious@darious.com>
writes:
> 
> And that I can't find a reference saying that a maimed limb can't be 
> healed 
> naturally.  But - this is always Marshal's call.  

From Whom It May Concern,
Rich A Ranallo

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