09-06-2017, 09:24 AM | #41 | |
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Re: Surgery - How does it work?
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This is almost certainly a game style thing, but not because the games I am in shy away from harming PCs (I've seen plenty of PC death), but because they shy away form complexity. There's a lot of "NPCs usually target the torso" going on in my neck of the woods. |
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09-06-2017, 10:15 AM | #42 | |
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That's harsh for PCs, which is why this is a Harsh Realism rule and not the default :)
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09-06-2017, 10:32 AM | #43 | |||
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I think your first problem with Vitals wounds at lower TLs is not bleeding out, since if you use the MA rules you need surgery to try and stop bleeding. Otherwise you are relying on making 3x HT rolls in a row at at least -4 (and given the 3x wound multiplier likely worse than -4). So really your probably undergoing surgery anyway just to make it long enough to worry about long term healing. |
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09-06-2017, 10:59 AM | #44 | |
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09-06-2017, 11:54 AM | #45 |
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Re: Surgery - How does it work?
I'm making allowances for those people historically who have rolled amazing strings of critical successes on their HT rolls.
The case history that sticks out to me is Alexis St. Martin who got shot in the stomach by a musket at close range in 1822 and lived - but "healed" with an open hole into his stomach (a gastric fistula). The doctors didn't have much to do with his living and healing, as expected in 1822. That was all very interesting to his doctor, who got to study human digestion in a living human by sticking things in through the hole in his side, but not so great for Alexis. He lived for another 20-odd years before dying after slipping on icy steps.
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09-06-2017, 12:08 PM | #46 |
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Re: Surgery - How does it work?
Sure, that's why I said "would not be expected." A critical success (or a critical failure) is by definition not the expected result. "The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet."
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09-06-2017, 12:24 PM | #48 | |
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That which doesn't kill you may sometimes make you stronger emotionally, but that's it. Though there have a few cases of women performing their own caesareans and living. So reality can be pretty wonky at times.
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09-06-2017, 12:28 PM | #49 | |
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09-06-2017, 12:36 PM | #50 |
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