About Xenohealing

Pursuivant · 08-23-2022, 03:28 AM

The greater point cost for Xenohealing might have been intended to limit PCs' ability to heal magical constructs or repair equipment.

A potential enhancement for Healing that addresses your complaint might be:

Limited Xenohealing (+10% per level): You can theoretically heal anything, but you suffer a penalty to IQ based on the degree of difference from your own species. Use the categories for standard xenohealing to assess penalties: -2 for mammals, -4 for any earthly life, -6 for carbon-based life, -8 for anything alive, or -10 for any object. Each level of this enhancement beyond the first reduces penalties by 2, to a maximum of +50%, which just gives you a -2 penalty to heal unliving objects and no penalty to heal living beings.

This works out to 50% of the cost of regular Xenohealing at the same level, but has the drawback of a penalty to skill rolls.

08-23-2022, 03:28 AM	#3
Pursuivant Join Date: Apr 2005	Re: About Xenohealing The greater point cost for Xenohealing might have been intended to limit PCs' ability to heal magical constructs or repair equipment. A potential enhancement for Healing that addresses your complaint might be: Limited Xenohealing (+10% per level): You can theoretically heal anything, but you suffer a penalty to IQ based on the degree of difference from your own species. Use the categories for standard xenohealing to assess penalties: -2 for mammals, -4 for any earthly life, -6 for carbon-based life, -8 for anything alive, or -10 for any object. Each level of this enhancement beyond the first reduces penalties by 2, to a maximum of +50%, which just gives you a -2 penalty to heal unliving objects and no penalty to heal living beings. This works out to 50% of the cost of regular Xenohealing at the same level, but has the drawback of a penalty to skill rolls.