[MH] Charms for 16 effective skill or thereabouts

[starslayer]

Originally Posted by Langy

And lucky enough, the charm that was mentioned above wouldn't allow you to do that; it's entirely the 'charmed friend right after injury' variation. The 15 minutes one would be a Greater effect.

Exactly- as is my understanding from other threads with RPK so long as a 'mundane outside observer' would find the effect within the realm of possibility it remains a lesser effect, largely ignorant of what has really happened; though it is importantly NOT MtA style 'collective belief'.

So if the PC is hit by a bullet and drops to the ground, but then gets up and only has a nick on his shoulder- then that is a lesser effect because an outside observer would never have had enough time to register if the damage was critical- Mechanically it's just 'heal damage using path of chance' and just falls into 'another way to achieve an effect using a non-standard path'; but the path used and the 'mundane observer' clause puts a lot of restrictions on WHEN it can actually be used; I imagine it would have minimal problem turning most body shots into nicks; but it's not going to be able to turn a brain splattering headshot into a fleshwound. Similarly it could probably turn a hit from an elephant gun into a fleshwound, but be unable to reduce the damage from a hail or .22s (it is within the realm of possibility that a round the size of a man's thumb could hit a person and through luck fail to hurt him; it is much less within that realm that a similar effect could happen multiple times in single burst of gunfire.). Anything that obviously obliterates the person is also right out (grenades, flame throwers)- but if the attack also obscures the target then 'it was only a fleshwound' could have effect (blacked out by explosion, emerges simply blackened and charred; run over by tank, revealed to have been pushed into the ground rather then flattened against it.)