From:	"Andre' Selmer" <031ANDRE@******.wits.ac.za>
Subject:	Re: Physical adept should be fast
Date:	Mon, 16 Sep 1996 10:32:07 GMT + 2:00

<snip earlier bit>

@ This needs more comment.
@ It is also noteble that medkits give up at deadly wounds, you then
@ need a hospital. Magic healing working beyond is very nice.
@ Folks with an essence of 6 usually in my experience have +3D6
@ initative etc etc so wouldn't agin from lots of cyber, ok if i ever
@ manage to find some players who refrain (or can be pursuaded to) on
@ the wired 2, high essence mundanes may be a valid enough option.
@ Its somewhat a matter of preference but allowing treat spells to work
@ on folks on a D or more gives magic a huge! advantage over mundane
@ healing methods, and contemplate the idea of floks going in for cyber
@ surgery, mage visiting the next day and they are out, up and about!

The way that we play this is that Magic Healing speeds up the
healing rate of individuals in hospital, but as mages are rare and
healing spells drain is high the cost is prohibitive. In our system to
gain a mage to help in healing costs about 5,000 a day and you add
successes to the body roll. (Some obscure healing spell that
characters rarely bother to learn as it is slow but has lower drain).
Major spells like heal are available for characters comming out of
surgury but the chances of success are very little hence the +\-
10,000 per attempt cost (success not guarenteed). If the charater
wants a higher chance of success, how about ritual heal spells, also
available but the cost is usually very very very high. Also there is
an unstated ruling that while the character is recouperating from the
surgery the character 'learns' to control the cyberware, when there
is instant healing the character does not have time to learn how to
use the cyberware hence the character has to go back and learn, this
of course costs more money, but with the old fashioned way the
price is included.

Of course you could rule that the spell is limited in it capability
to healing a maximum of a single category!

My 0.02




Andre'

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