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I have no idea how you could possibly be sure of that, because it's totally and obviously wrong. Stun isn't healable with magic in the basic book, so when Peter Taylor was talking about how the fact that magic couldn't be used to heal Drain was left out of the book, he was amazingly obviously talking about physical drain. Because that's the only kind of drain that it is possible for it to be important whether the basic book mentioned the healing of.

Furthermore, if we couldn't just use our observational powers to conclude that there is literally nothing else he possibly could have meant, we can also turn to... me.

And why would we do that? Because I actually wrote part of Street Magic and I was part of the discussion about healing magical drain and the discussion about how the limitation of no magical healing was left out of the basic book. And I can tell you with a certainty not felt since the prophets of old fortold the rising of the sun that indeed what was meant was that healing magical physical drain with magical spells is not supposed to be in the game. Not even a little bit.

I really lobbied for the inclusion of a black-and-white statement to this effect in Street Magic, but the thought was that since it was supposed to be in the basic book it should go into the basic book errata instead. That this conversation is even happening proves me right, but that is of little consolation. The fact is that Heal is not supposed to be efficacious for magical drain, whether overcast or not. And when you think about it, that should be extremely obvious (what with Heal itself being ann overcastable spell).

-Frank

Uh oh, it looks like Synner might be having an identity crisis. He/she is a she when he/she talks with Mistwalker, but he/she is a he when he/she talks with Fortune. He/she must be living a double life .

I think he's trying.

Mistwalker,

Even if the statement was not explicitly clear in its wording, its inference was. Logical deduction. Process of elmination. I don't quite think your position of "ESL" is really even worth noting. Logic works the same in any language.

That's Robyn , aka Winterhawk11

Synner's a Peter (and I mean that in a nice way )

Does Elissa post here... cause that makes 2 female freelancers

I was more refering to translations, and literal translations. But, there are more ways, logically, to inferer any given situation, than just one.

Example of translation : Les Francais sont Vaincues. The correct translation is : The French have been vanquished. The incorrect translation is : The French have twenty asses.


Example of infering : When I was in the military, years ago, I needed a military driver's license. When I went for the practical test with one of the big trucks, the Warrant Officer who admistered it, started the session with : You will follow orders immediately when given, you will not think about, you will execute it. Is that clear?". Two minutes into the drive, he said "turn left", so I turned left, jumped the curb, sidewalk, continued across the lawn of one of the admin buildings, leaving big and deep tracks. He qualified his next statement to "At the next road, turn right".
I did not get into any trouble for that incident, actually got my license that day.

I have a lot more examples of inference mis-understood, some due to language problems, most that had more serious consequences (some even life threatning).

Panther assault, or Sherman tank?

While that is an interesting example, Mistwalker, in this case here you were simply (as I said before) shouting at the rain.

No matter how loud you were, you still got soaked.

As it had already been stated, Synner said healing drain damage was overlooked. Since there are only 2 types of damage in SR4 (Physical and Stun) and since we know that the Core rules covered Magical Healing and Stun Damage, then there is only one thing that could have been overlooked that Synner was referring to.

In arguing otherwise, you have committed regicide on the Lords of Logic. Their bodies are now cooling in pools of their own blood.

Congratulations.

Yep ... as Pistons.

You do not recall correctly. SR4 is the first edition to (accidentally) allow healing physical drain.