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Message no. 1
From: Twist0059@***.com Twist0059@***.com
Subject: Overflow and Magical Healing
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 17:02:11 EDT
The rules don't really mention how magical healing affects the Overflow
damage on a character. Here are possibilities I've found. Please post
anything I might have missed.


1) Magical Healing (Heal/Treat) take off points of Overflow the same as boxes
of Physical.
2) It takes off boxes just from the Physical track and immediately eliminates
all Overflow.
3) Heal/Treat can't work on a player with Overflow. That's what Stabilize is
for.


Thanks in advance for everyone's thoughts on this.





Twist
Message no. 2
From: Dennis Steinmeijer dv8@********.nl
Subject: Overflow and Magical Healing
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 23:21:39 +0200
Twist0059@***.com wrote:
> 1) Magical Healing (Heal/Treat) take off points of Overflow the same as
boxes
> of Physical.
> 2) It takes off boxes just from the Physical track and immediately
eliminates
> all Overflow.
> 3) Heal/Treat can't work on a player with Overflow. That's what Stabilize
is
> for.

I would go for rule number 1. It seems to me the most logical of the three.
Rule number 2 is a bit too much of an advantage, and rule 3 the exact
opposite, forming a big disadvantage although well thought of.

Dennis

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Message no. 3
From: Gurth gurth@******.nl
Subject: Overflow and Magical Healing
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 12:47:28 +0200
According to Twist0059@***.com, at 17:02 on 29 Jun 99, the word on
the street was...

> 1) Magical Healing (Heal/Treat) take off points of Overflow the same as boxes
> of Physical.

I use this rule. Drain is likewise based on the number of boxes of damage
the target of the Heal spell has taken, staged according to my overflow
damage house rules -- so casting a healing spell on someone with 13 boxes
of damage will cause (Deadly+Moderate) drain.

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Message no. 4
From: Mongoose m0ng005e@*********.com
Subject: Overflow and Magical Healing
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 17:03:28 -0500
:The rules don't really mention how magical healing affects the Overflow
:damage on a character. Here are possibilities I've found. Please post
:anything I might have missed.
:
:
:1) Magical Healing (Heal/Treat) take off points of Overflow the same as
boxes
:of Physical.

Theres nothing in the description that contradicts this, and its what we
have always used. The drain would be base D, of course...

:2) It takes off boxes just from the Physical track and immediately
eliminates
:all Overflow.

There is nothing in the description to indicate that this would happen.
In fact, the spell specifically removes as many boxes as successes (limited
by force, given time, blah blah blah), so I don't see why it should do any
more.

:3) Heal/Treat can't work on a player with Overflow. That's what Stabilize
is
:for.

Using Heal does not automaitically stabalize a character. The spell
would only reduce thier current damage level, and if that was still above
deadly, they would still be taking damage and be on a short road to a deep
hole. Therefore, you would normally want to first use stabalize first, or
otherwise ensure the person was not about to die despite use of the Heal
spell.
Its a bitch that stabalize has a force limit- I've seen characters go 5
boxes over and live. Biotech is an excellent skill to have, in those cases.

Mongoose
Message no. 5
From: Barbie LeVile barbie@********.de
Subject: Overflow and Magical Healing
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 22:21:29 +0200
Twist0059@***.com wrote:
>
> The rules don't really mention how magical healing affects the Overflow
> damage on a character. Here are possibilities I've found. Please post
> anything I might have missed.
>
> 1) Magical Healing (Heal/Treat) take off points of Overflow the same as boxes
> of Physical.

this one I use for years, add two to the spell target number if a target has
overlow.
works good for me.

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