Re: [HOE] Just healing [Hopler]

[Abdullah Oblongota <toadpooka@juno.com>]

On Thu, 3 Aug 2000 02:27:06 -0700 "Nick Zachariasen"
<zacharin@pluto.dsu.edu> writes:
> >
> > 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.

That's not even reattached; that's growing back severed limbs.

> 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.

Well, that's considerably more complicated than the medicine available to
people in the Wasted West.  Maybe if you could fix a Maimed wound in the
Golden Hour, you could get it down to Critical, which could then be
healed naturally or something.  I've always done it as 5 wounds = no
recovery.
Irregardless, it might be nice to get an official word on how this works,
since there's a direct contradiction in the rules.

So, Mr Hopler (or someone): Can Maimed limbs be healed by natural means,
medicine: surgery rolls, or only certain supernatural powers?

From Whom It May Concern,
Rich A Ranallo

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