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Originally Posted by Skarg
>>> Healing is done per wound instead of per combat. <<<
Yes. This is how we played.
It's the only way we ever played.
Because it makes so little sense to read it as "per combat".
Abe gets hit 5 times throughout a day, and gets healed by a physicker once after every wound.
Bob gets hits 5 times in the same way as Abe, but all in one combat. Then the physicker can heal only him once?
Carl the Clever, seeing this, gets hurt once in combat, and decides to start Defending and Disengaging and hiding out, and Dave the Devious swaps into his place, having also realized that the party will survive ten times as long if they only get hurt once per combat.
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Hi Skarg,
Physicker reads:
"PHYSICKER (2). Healer's abilities. A Physicker can heal up to 2 hits on any humanoid figure (wounds only - not exhaustion) after any combat or accident. ... <describes how healing is done> ... However, if he is later takes another 5 hits from another mishap he can be cured 2 more by any physicker. It takes 5 minutes to heal 5 hits."
If you are hit once, then you can be bandaged up for two points of healing.
But when you are wounded, can you wait 20 minutes before treatment begins and still restore those two points? Or should treatment start immediately. I would think it would have to start at once.
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Now you are in a fight and are hit, and hit again (perhaps aggravating the first wound), and then hit again (you're fighting hard, adrenaline pumping hard, active motion increasing blood loss). Then are hit again for a one point wound, and a couple rounds later, a fifth time. All told you have taken 13 points of damage.
After this mauling, a low tech physicker can restore 10 hits???
So you have been hit 5 times, so a physicker should give you back 10 hits?
Do you keep track that one of those wounds was only a 1 point, so you can only heal one from that wound? Does this healing take 5 minutes? Or does it take 25 minutes? If it takes 25 minutes, is not effectively the last wound being untreated for 20 minutes before work starts on it?
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Saying that you can treat wounds once per combat makes sense to me. I do think that the rules could have been written more clearly.
Warm regards, Rick.