[RPM] Limits on Healing

[Minuteman37]

Well you could just outlaw Greater path of body effects. With a lesser effect the best healing magic could do is double whatever current first aid healing is. Now if you're just TL3 first aid shock treating is 1d6-3 and that includes the 1hp from bandaging. So you'd be looking at the greatest possible instant healing spell restoring 1d6-2 or just 2 hp when it's cast. For comparison GURPS says modern TL8 median can heal twice that in 10 minutes.

[dbm]

Another suggestion: you could have a house rule making the burning HP a mandatory part of fuelling healing rituals. For example, specifying that at least 20% of the power accumulated must come from this source (adjust figure to suit, naturally). This would have the advantage of scaling to however big a ritual a character wants to produce.

[Bazial]

Originally Posted by Minuteman37

Well you could just outlaw Greater path of body effects. With a lesser effect the best healing magic could do is double whatever current first aid healing is. Now if you're just TL3 first aid shock treating is 1d6-3 and that includes the 1hp from bandaging. So you'd be looking at the greatest possible instant healing spell restoring 1d6-2 or just 2 hp when it's cast. For comparison GURPS says modern TL8 median can heal twice that in 10 minutes.

Hmm, that's not a bad idea. Perhaps not all Great Effects for Body, but just for Restore Body then?

Originally Posted by dbm

Another suggestion: you could have a house rule making the burning HP a mandatory part of fuelling healing rituals. For example, specifying that at least 20% of the power accumulated must come from this source (adjust figure to suit, naturally). This would have the advantage of scaling to however big a ritual a character wants to produce.

That's... Actually kind of neat. It really communicates the whole "something for something" rules of transferring life energy. A variation of this might be that the ritual grants either the recipient or the caster with a disadvantage worth some percentage (30%?) of the amount of energy required to cast the ritual.