Re: [HOE] Sykers and healing [Hopler]

["Nick Zachariasen" <zacharin@pluto.dsu.edu>]

> 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.

Hey, there's always the possibility of it being reattached via microsurgery.
It's not bloody LIKELY, but it's possible.

> 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

The way I'm interpreting it is that natural healing CAN help a maimed limb
heal.  It's harder than Hell, but it can happen- that's why the TN is so
high.  Medicine can help with the +2 to the Vigor roll due to reconstructive
surgery and the like.  Take my previous example of Stephen King- surgery
helped put his shattered femur (I think) back together to prevent
aggravation of the damage, but he had to do all the healing himself, with
physical therapy helping out.

Nick Zachariasen