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RE: [risustalk] Healing During Combat




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> I have a cleric in a typical swords and sorcery type world. I know that I can
probably have them do combat by using offensive cleric spells, but what if the
cleric wants to heal during combat? I would think that would be a TN, but I'm
not sure what would be a good number to use.
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Just off the top of my head, I would assume that a good rule of thumb might be a
TN of 5 times the number of dice lost. If you make the roll, the patient heals
ONE die.



So if the Barbarian (4) has taken one die of damage, and is acting as a
Barbarian (3), the D&D-Style-Cleric would need to beat a TN of 5 to heal him
back to 4.



If a Barbarian (4) has taken TWO dice of damage, to Barbarian (2), the
D&D-Style-Cleric would need to beat a TN of 10 to heal him back to (3). (Then
on his next turn could beat a 5 to heal him fully)



But the GM would have to make sure that the dice lost and thus regained were
something that a cleric could heal. As someone else pointed out, Cliche dice
are not just Hit Points. If a character was losing dice because of loss of
ammo, or loss of a tactical advantage, I don't see how a Cleric could heal that.



Karl

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I have a cleric in a typical swords and sorcery type world. I know that I can probably have them do combat by using offensive cleric spells, but what if the...
liquidhot_maagma
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Jan 2, 2010
7:02 am

If the healer is part of a team, I wouldn't give the PCs back any of their dice. I'd just make that one of his actions. When the going gets tough for one of...
Guy
guyhoyle1 Offline Send Email
Jan 2, 2010
7:13 am

... Just off the top of my head, I would assume that a good rule of thumb might be a TN of 5 times the number of dice lost. If you make the roll, the patient...
Karl Paananen
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Jan 2, 2010
2:26 pm

... Ammo? Maybe "The Lord will provide..." and the cleric brings out a clip of bullets he'd been hiding for just such an occasion. As for loss of tactical ...
Guy Hoyle
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Jan 2, 2010
2:37 pm

... I wouldn't allow a cleric to heal dice during a fight, but I might allow it afterward. Even non-physical damage could be recovered via counseling. During...
Hollis McCray
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Jan 2, 2010
2:51 pm

... Agreed.Any restoration of dice should be part of the healing process after battle. A cleric would probably be able to speed up the process,but that's up to...
Guy
guyhoyle1 Offline Send Email
Jan 2, 2010
3:36 pm

... While I'm all for healing only AFTER batlle, I have an idea for healing in battle if a player really wants the ability to - let the cleric lose 1 die in...
Dan
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Jan 2, 2010
7:23 pm

Of course risus is not d&d, nor would I want it to be, but if your playing a classic d&d style fantasy game the cleric's role is healing. And I would allow it...
grogthing Offline Send Email Jan 2, 2010
11:05 pm

... Clerics traditions are Healing, Turning Undead, and Back Up Fighter. The latter two can be handled through cliches; but Healing is far too useful to let it...
Nero
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Jan 3, 2010
3:40 am

I like the 'healing' as a classic team up. But if you want to keep it more to the D&D idiom, the sliding TN is good and the cleric should have to give up dice...
Nero
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Jan 2, 2010
9:27 pm

While I'm all for healing to be abstracted during team-ups, I often find that characters with healing abilities may not be part of a given team (they may be...
Tim Ballew
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Jan 3, 2010
1:56 am

Thanks for all of the input. We just had our game session and I went with the suggestion to act as if the cleric's dice was part of the healing abilities. So...
liquidhot_maagma
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Jan 3, 2010
4:28 am

That sounds like a great way to do it. As long as you had fun, there's No Wrong Way to Play. Guy On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 10:28 PM, liquidhot_maagma ... ...
Guy Hoyle
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