HeySparky
Jun 7 2007, 07:48 PM
Q: RunnerB gets hurt. If RunnerA does First Aid on RunnerB then Empathically Heals the rest of the damage, can the 'new' damage to RunnerA be lessened by First Aid?
A: Hell no. If two Adepts had Empathic Healing and First Aid, they'd never have to suffer anything more painful than high costs of resupplying medkits.
Q: Okay... so then, what does it mean when you Empathically heal individual boxes of damage. EXAMPLE: RunnerB gets a lead-pipe to the ribs takes 6 boxes of damage... it cracks a few ribs and one of them punctures a lung. RunnerA heals RunnerB... what are the effects?
RunnerA and RunnerB both have sore ribs? RunnerB no longer has a punctured rib, but RunnerB does...? Ah, the mysteries of Magic. Anyone have insight?
A: ...?
DireRadiant
Jun 7 2007, 07:50 PM
They obviously weren't hit hard enough with a lead pipe.
Moon-Hawk
Jun 7 2007, 07:53 PM
I would think it would probably vary based on the style of RunnerA. One adept might suffer the same broken ribs, another might not show anything but an overall decrease in well-being, and another might bleed from the hands and feet no matter what they heal.
Aaron
Jun 7 2007, 08:59 PM
Play RoleMaster?
HeySparky
Jun 7 2007, 09:03 PM
1:2 signal to noise. Not bad.
That's keen Moon-Hawk.
So, back to the first question, is a given 'lot' of wounds 'healed magically' if it's transferred by Empathic Healing? If so - that BLOWS. The spell makes the wounds vanish and the caster break a sweat.
Boo-urns, I say. Booo... urns.
DireRadiant
Jun 7 2007, 09:09 PM
If a "Box" of damage was defined in terms of "real" injuries then the answer to this question would be simple. But it's not, so the answer is going to depend on how you define a "box" of damage, and whether or not it's fixed or mutable.
Moon-Hawk
Jun 7 2007, 09:17 PM
| QUOTE (ES_Sparky) |
| So, back to the first question, is a given 'lot' of wounds 'healed magically' if it's transferred by Empathic Healing? If so - that BLOWS. The spell makes the wounds vanish and the caster break a sweat. |
I would say that the wounds have been healed magically, yes.
You're right, this is worse than the heal spell, and a Mystic Adept (who theoretically has access to both) probably won't take this power.
But for a regular adept who otherwise can't do magical healing at all, the ability to heal magically might be kind of neat. If there isn't a spellcaster on the team, this could be a really handy use of 0.5 power points.
Then again, you could always rule (or convince your GM) that it doesn't count as magical healing and a given lot of wounds could be healed via spell and empathic healing, just not more than one of each.
AFAIK the rules aren't explicit either way, but my intuition tells me both probably count as the same "magical healing" and thus you can't do both.
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