11-05-2018, 07:45 PM | #1 |
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Partial injury healing times
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Does anyone know how long it takes as written in MA to recover from partial injuries? I know there is a pyramid article but Im wondering about as written in MA. thanks.
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11-05-2018, 10:15 PM | #2 |
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Re: Partial injury healing times
I can't remember where but I thought all locations healed simultaneously.
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11-06-2018, 06:28 AM | #3 |
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Re: Partial injury healing times
RAW gives no guidance here, because GURPS lumps all injury together for purposes of healing (and pretty much everything else, aside from if the character suffers a Major Wound, or optionally if a limb is crippled). I'd be tempted to treat every HP healed as counting toward every hit location for purposes of recovering from Partial Injury. So, if an HP 10 character has taken 10 HP of injury to the Torso, he starts out at -3 DX, -50% movement. Once he's healed 4 HP, regardless of how much Injury he's taken elsewhere, this changes to -2 DX, -20% movement. Once he's healed 5 HP, he's at -1 DX. Once he's healed 7 HP, he's back to normal.
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11-06-2018, 02:29 PM | #4 | |
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Re: Partial injury healing times
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Sometimes this means they are "fully healed" while still suffering from a temporary crippling wound, the crippling stays a further amount of time until it would be healed as well (but at this point it's on a 'one for one' basis). * Major and Crippling Wounds. |
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11-07-2018, 06:52 AM | #5 | |
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11-07-2018, 10:03 AM | #6 |
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Re: Partial injury healing times
My gaming group recently decided to bite the bullet and start recording every single wound separately, as we like having healing spells that only work on certain types of injuries, or that are limited in the amount of healing they can do per cast because each cast must target a discrete wound, etc. We also have an artist who wants to know what scars our characters have, and our GM wants there to be spells that open old wounds (or that otherwise interact with the number of wounds a subject has suffered! Imagine an attack that deals damage [adds to diced] based on the number of scars the caster has suffered!)
Anyways, point is, I'm very curious about peoples responses to this. I like Varyons rule about every HP of natural recovery counting equally for reducing the effects of all penalties from the Partial Injury rules. |
11-07-2018, 06:29 PM | #7 |
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Re: Partial injury healing times
What do you mean heal simultaneously? There is no explanation of the mechanics of healing for partial injuries. There are rules for crippling injuries and that is all as far as I can tell.
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11-07-2018, 06:32 PM | #8 | |
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11-07-2018, 10:02 PM | #9 | |
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Otherwise you'd have to do stuff like choose which of your limbs got the HP which would be weird... Another way would be when your main pool gets 1 back you could split that between all injured locations, reflecting a body with limited/split resources. So if you had taken 2 HP to both arms and got 1 back, it would be as if you had taken 1.5 HP to both arms? |
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11-08-2018, 12:51 AM | #10 |
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Re: Partial injury healing times
I'd probably allow an immediate bandaging/first aid roll for each separate wound (so a HP back for each) but then have the rest of HP lost heal all together in the usual way if its healing via just getting better over time even with medical treatment giving bonuses to do that.
That way really light 1hp wounds might be distracting until individually treated but quickly negated, but heavier wounds still take time. You only apply one partial injury penalty per action anyway so it's not like 4x 2hp injuries one on each limb is going to net you an ongoing -4DX until healed. If it became a concern I'd let the player choose which healed first. But I'd also take on view on what else was going on, so say they were still marching 8 hours day then yeah that arm wound might clear faster than the leg wound.. But that all said I do track bleeding separately, as well as surgery rolls on different wounds!
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