Resting/Healing rates for large strong figures?

Skarg · 06-29-2018, 10:08 PM

Someone posted there wife is planning on running a giant as a PC, which brings up the old question: how fast to high-ST characters (including monsters) rest and heal?

Should it be pro-rated based on ST (seems like the right answer to me, though it probably wants explicit rules)? (e.g. if your ST is 20, you rest/heal twice as fast, the ST 100 dragon rests/heals 10 times as fast, etc.)

Or does a ST 100 dragon with 60 damage need two months to heal?

Wayne · 06-30-2018, 12:52 AM

Good point, but do different species heal at different rates?
My thought is it should be based on a proportion of the average ST of that species.

So a 100 ST dragon would take about the same length of time as 10 ST average human. (5 ST per day is roughly equivalent).

OTOH the GM may rule that dragons heal at half or twice the rate of humans, just modify from there.

So your 30 ST Giant would recover 3 points every two days.

What about Magic?

Rick_Smith · 06-30-2018, 01:16 AM

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Originally Posted by Skarg

Someone posted there wife is planning on running a giant as a PC, which brings up the old question: how fast to high-ST characters (including monsters) rest and heal? ...

Hi Skarg,
I multiply the healing rate by the size of the creature. So a giant heals 3 times faster than a human. A 7 hex dragon heals 7 times faster, etc.

Warm regards, Rick.

schoon · 06-30-2018, 02:59 AM

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Originally Posted by Rick_Smith

I multiply the healing rate by the size of the creature. So I giant heals 3 times faster than a human. A 7 hex dragon heals 7 times faster, etc.

Very elegant solution. I'll be using this.

06-29-2018, 10:08 PM	#1
Skarg Join Date: May 2015	Resting/Healing rates for large strong figures? Someone posted there wife is planning on running a giant as a PC, which brings up the old question: how fast to high-ST characters (including monsters) rest and heal? Should it be pro-rated based on ST (seems like the right answer to me, though it probably wants explicit rules)? (e.g. if your ST is 20, you rest/heal twice as fast, the ST 100 dragon rests/heals 10 times as fast, etc.) Or does a ST 100 dragon with 60 damage need two months to heal?

06-30-2018, 12:52 AM	#2
Wayne Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Geelong, Australia	Re: Resting/Healing rates for large strong figures? Good point, but do different species heal at different rates? My thought is it should be based on a proportion of the average ST of that species. So a 100 ST dragon would take about the same length of time as 10 ST average human. (5 ST per day is roughly equivalent). OTOH the GM may rule that dragons heal at half or twice the rate of humans, just modify from there. So your 30 ST Giant would recover 3 points every two days. What about Magic?