Re: Minor Magical Healing

From: David Dunham <dunham_at_pensee.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 13:05:03 -0800


Stephen Tempest

>I'm not talking about the specialist, heavy-duty stuff that is the
>preserve of Chalana Arroy and Queen Deezola healers, like casting out
>disease, regrowing limbs, and so on; but the magical equivalent of
>first aid - staunching wounds, setting broken bones, curing
>stomach-aches, etc.
>
>Back in my old RQ2 days, the answer was easy: "very common".
>Certainly all my PCs learned Healing-2 as their absolute first
>priority, and it was rare and surprising to find an NPC opponent who
>lacked the spell. In HW, though, it seems that magic is much more
>specialised - the *only* Heortling deities that provide *any* healing
>magic are the specialists like CA and Ernalda the Healer. (and Vinga,
>strangely enough). So what happens now to poor Jon Stormfollower when
>he cuts his leg open?

I think it's just as common in Hero Wars -- after all, after almost every contest you end up in the pink of health by the next one. I believe this represents in part the use of minor healing magic, non-magical first aid, etc. It's just that with the Hero Wars rules, we don't actually have to roll for it all like in RuneQuest.

The rules concentrate on the more dramatic stuff, for which there are indeed healing specialists (the most common of which is Ernalda).

(And welcome to the Digest.)

David Dunham dunham_at_pensee.com
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