Why disallow.... Give it to him.... For Role-play reasons.
This is basically saying that unlike most people, he get tends to get
hurt a lot.
But he keeps on going.
So his name is Harrak Always Wounded. Every skirmish he's going to get
hurt.
It tends not to be disabling, at least for him. Just make the fight
descriptions bloodier. For him.. AP loss _is_ injury. The crowds love
him.
And well, in his case, you have an free target when you need someone
hurt.
I.e., Sorcerers come visiting, wanting some information, when you don't
give
it to them, there is a NEEM! * and someone... well... him, gets turned
into a
crispy pillar. I'm sure the sorcerers get bushwhacked then... but when
the
party turn back to this pile of soot... there is a groan.
So use the skill as a role-play thing... It doesn't change the actual
game
results too much. At least until he buffs that skill up to the 10w3
level.
So a 17 'Miraculous recovery from injury' lets you survive nasty
orlanthi
skirmish wounds. a 10w3 'Miraculous recovery from injury' let you:
What,
you killed the dragon from the inside? Stand and take our adulation....
downwind please. So the actual game rules make it be a more specialized
version of tough. With maybe slightly different rules application. But
that's
part of the fun.
BTW, I seem to recall from the rules you can use any appropriate ability to augment healing. Tough qualities, Therefore MRfI certainly does.
So have Peter Hemophiliac Never Hit. Sure his combat descriptions has
him
bounce off three chars, 2 players, and a tree in order to avoid that
Uz's
club. But you only describe him as whacked when there he's flat, at the
bottom of a crater caused by giant's club. (Resurrection please!)
Of course, the choice of allowing characters this sort of colour is part of Your Glorantha May Vary.
And... considering the magic items you can buy with your starting
points...
Funky weird stuff is nifty. At long as you make it match the games power
level, and suit everyone's version of fun.
Steven White
* He's lucky I'm not as nasty as the spell checker. You don't want to
know what it recommended.
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