| From: | Mongoose m0ng005e@*********.com |
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| Subject: | Overflow and Magical Healing |
| Date: | Wed, 30 Jun 1999 17:03:28 -0500 |
: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
