Re: [HOE] Sykers and healing [Hopler]

[Grant Vanderhule <vandergm@willinet.net>]

without supernatural healing in the real world, people who routinely get into
running gun battles DO spend all of their time healing :) and just normally
recovering from a mauled limb without expert attention doesn't typically happen
very often..

as far as i understand wound TNs and wound penalties: the reason they are
seperate is because the TN represents the actual difficulty of healing the
wound, and the penalty reflects the own pain and anguish you are having to deal
with in the meantime. if you are trying to heal somebody's maimed arm and you
are at full health, you get an 11 TN with no penalty. if you are trying to heal
somebody's light wound and you are maimed (well, not that it'd happen very
often..) you'd get a 3 TN with a -5 penalty. as far as i can tell, when trying
to heal yourself of a maimed wound, both would apply: the 11 TN because the
wound is so severe, and the -5 penalty because you are in a lot of friggin'
pain. and that'd certainly make it hard for a syker to concentrate on fleshknit
for an hour or two while he's bleeding profusely :)

Grant V

Steve Crow wrote:

> >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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