From:	Damion Milliken <adm82@***.EDU.AU>
Subject:	Re: Physical Healing Question
Date:	Mon, 17 Apr 1995 01:22:58 +1000

Robert Watkins writes:

> A system I've been thinking about is to represent professional skills as
> Special Skills, with a catch: they cost 10 times as much Karma. The
> resulting skills are rather broad (you can specialise for half, or
> concentrate for two-thirds), but the cost is about right.

That would probably be a better way to handle knowledge skills overall (I'd
say a lot more goes into an engineering degree (Physical Science skill) than
would go into a similarly rated vehicle or physical skill). But it kinda
makes the skills unattractive for PCs. I guess you could say that the skills
in the book, at the costs they are listed at, are more "general knowledge"
type skills, rather than being the equivalent of a professional degree or
the like.

> So, for long-term magical care, or for that matter, doctoring, under this
> system it's a special skill (Magical Healing), costing a fortune. Odds are
> your PCs won't go for it.

Hmm, would you really count Magical Healing as a skill on par with medicine?
I don't really think I'd look at it that way. I'd say Magical Healing was
either spells (oddly enough), or something considerably less than a medical
degree, which could be done using a skill such as Magical Theory. After all,
it doesn't actually heal anyone, it just provides a modifier which makes
things easier for the real doctor.

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Damion Milliken University of Wollongong E-mail: adm82@***.edu.au

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