From:	Patrick Goodman remo@***.net
Subject:	The Friggin' Healing Spell
Date:	Sun, 29 Aug 1999 21:22:55 -0500

<snip example>

> <Supermage>
> 2 successes with my 10 dice against TN6
> <Supermage>
>
> (average number of successes with this setup is 1,667)
>
> GM: So that's 3 boxes healed

No, that's only 2 boxes healed. And he can never heal more than 4 no matter
how many successes he gets, since he only has the spell at Force 4.

> GM: Surprise Surprise,...no Drain, huh?
>
> <Supermage>
> "Nope,...and since we have plenty of time I'll make sure I never get drain
> by healing the rest L(ight) wounds at force 3 at a time. I'll just do it
> very often."
> </Supermage>
>
> Is there something awful I have done in the past to deserve this? Or am I
> doing something completely wrong?

He can also only heal the same set of wounds one time with Magic (the same
set of injuries can never be Healed more than once using magic, no matter
how many Heal spells the party has among them). So it's only ever 1 magical
healing to a customer at any given time.

Also, it looks like he's casting the spell at a particular wound level, and
Heal doesn't work like that (at least in SR3). Heal just worries about
boxes of damage; the Drain he has to face is whatever the wound level the
recipient is at when the spell is cast. Thus, if someone is sitting at a
Serious wound level, he's resisting Serious drain. He doesn't get to choose
that, it's chosen for him.

The possibility exists that I might be misinterpreting something, but...why
are you worried about this? So he gets lucky with Heal spells and resists
Drain. Put him against the right Drain level and he won't resist so often.
Put him in a position where he has to cast spells that *will* cause him
Drain. Take your own advice and shoot him full of holes. But I wouldn't be
worried that he wasn't taking Drain from a Heal spell.

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