DF: Spell healing limits.

[Fred Brackin]

Originally Posted by Anthony

Pretty sure it's a 2nd edition artifact, with a chance of being 1st edition. Back when shock penalties were uncapped, for example.

Nope. P.29, second paragraph of Gurps Fantasy 1e from 1986. That's pretty much the beginning.

The penalty isn't capped.

[Bruno]

Originally Posted by Fred Brackin

The penalty isn't capped.

In 1e? It's capped in 4e at -4.

[Bruno]

Originally Posted by Fred Brackin

As in many other cases, this part of Magic predates what is _now_ the "core system".

Yes, that's where most of the Magic hinky-ness comes from. What my fellow IT workers would summarize as "Legacy stuff".

[Brandy]

This is potentially not-at-all helpful, but just in case. I found that I like the penalties as is once I started tracking individual wounds. Someone who takes 5 two-point wounds is easier to patch up (5 unmodified minor healing rolls) than someone who takes 1 10=point wound (needs two healing spells, second at -3; if only minor healing is available, then this wound is *very* hard to heal. As it should be -- it's not a minor wound).

If that's of no help, my bad. Just a thought.

[Fred Brackin]

Originally Posted by Bruno

In 1e? It's capped in 4e at -4.

That's right. The penalty was not capped in the text I cited.

[Anthony]

Originally Posted by Fred Brackin

That's right. The penalty was not capped in the text I cited.

I remember getting shock penalties in the teens back in 3e. It generally meant "well, I'm not actually stunned, but I think I'll all-out-defend anyway".

[Dwarf99]

Originally Posted by Peter Knutsen

The Healing advantage has an analogous repeat-usage limit.

I didn't say it didn't I said I don't