(10-09-2015, 06:14 PM)Aris Wrote: As someone who is looking to RP as a healer, I should generally ask them OOC what they want the outcome to be then?

(10-09-2015, 06:18 PM)SicketySix Wrote:

(10-09-2015, 06:14 PM)Aris Wrote: As someone who is looking to RP as a healer, I should generally ask them OOC what they want the outcome to be then?

That would probably be best

(10-09-2015, 06:43 PM)Zetchryn Wrote: On this note is also the subject of scars. Every player is different, and I ultimately allow others to decide whether or not something scars, but once again, the older the wound and the more severe the injury, the more likely I think something would scar.

(10-09-2015, 06:59 PM)Solenne Wrote:

(10-09-2015, 06:43 PM)Zetchryn Wrote: On this note is also the subject of scars. Every player is different, and I ultimately allow others to decide whether or not something scars, but once again, the older the wound and the more severe the injury, the more likely I think something would scar.

This might be slightly off-topic, but I've been thinking about the issue of scars. My character has almost none, in spite of the fact that she's lived an intermittently dangerous life since reaching adulthood. I like the idea of healing magic as an aid to physical healing, but not as a perfect quick fix. As such, you'd expect someone who has been wounded to have scars, even if they were tended to by a healer. But I was wondering if a healer might be able to work on her own injuries over time, applying healing spells not merely at the beginning, but throughout her whole recovery process, so as to minimize or eliminate scarring. Plausible?

(10-09-2015, 06:43 PM)Zetchryn Wrote: As someone who RPs a healer, I first ask what they want the end result to be. I also take into account two things: How recent the wound is, and how severe it is.

In my opinion, if a healer can get at a wound almost immediately, then they can repair most of the damage quickly as long as it's not too severe. Hence the idea, for example, of how the heck a tank in a dungeon isn't falling over dead by the end. The more time you wait to heal the wound, the harder it will be for a full recovery.

However, healers are not miracle workers. If, for example, someone suffers a grave injury, a healer might only be able to stabilize the man's condition, perhaps get them back on their feet. Think Raise for this, which applies a debuff on the target. You just took a very nasty hit, we couldn't fix everything, but you'll live.

As severity and time since the injury occurred increase, the ability to heal decreases. I've RPed someone finding my healer much to late for her to do anything magically, at which point she just starts sewing them up physically and helping them with the pain..



On this note is also the subject of scars. Every player is different, and I ultimately allow others to decide whether or not something scars, but once again, the older the wound and the more severe the injury, the more likely I think something would scar.

(10-09-2015, 10:51 PM)LiadansWhisper Wrote:

(10-09-2015, 06:43 PM)Zetchryn Wrote: As someone who RPs a healer, I first ask what they want the end result to be. I also take into account two things: How recent the wound is, and how severe it is.

In my opinion, if a healer can get at a wound almost immediately, then they can repair most of the damage quickly as long as it's not too severe. Hence the idea, for example, of how the heck a tank in a dungeon isn't falling over dead by the end. The more time you wait to heal the wound, the harder it will be for a full recovery.

However, healers are not miracle workers. If, for example, someone suffers a grave injury, a healer might only be able to stabilize the man's condition, perhaps get them back on their feet. Think Raise for this, which applies a debuff on the target. You just took a very nasty hit, we couldn't fix everything, but you'll live.

As severity and time since the injury occurred increase, the ability to heal decreases. I've RPed someone finding my healer much to late for her to do anything magically, at which point she just starts sewing them up physically and helping them with the pain..



On this note is also the subject of scars. Every player is different, and I ultimately allow others to decide whether or not something scars, but once again, the older the wound and the more severe the injury, the more likely I think something would scar.

I'm curious as to why you think healers aren't miracle workers?  They can raise people from the edge of death (people who have all the appearance of being dead) back to life, among other amazing things.

(10-09-2015, 11:20 PM)Aysun Wrote: My reasoning for healers not being miracle workers would be the mourning people right outside the Stillglade Fane..

(10-09-2015, 11:27 PM)LiadansWhisper Wrote:

(10-09-2015, 11:20 PM)Aysun Wrote: My reasoning for healers not being miracle workers would be the mourning people right outside the Stillglade Fane..

All that means is that they chose not to heal whoever died.  "The Will of the Forest" is bandied about a lot, but the truth is, the only limits to a conjurer's ability to heal someone are their own skill and the strength of the ambient aether.  The Elementals aren't preventing you from doing it, and I wouldn't put it past certain self-centered Hearers (who, remember, have absolutely no innate reason we are aware of to be good-of-heart) to simply say the Elementals don't want someone to be healed when the Elementals don't actually care.  The Elementals are unlikely to know, since as far as we know, they don't understand mortal speech.

Are there limits on what healers do?  Sure.  That doesn't mean they aren't miracle workers, though, for all intents and purposes.

(10-14-2015, 12:18 AM)Illae Wrote: After playing healers in several games, I take into account several things.  Firstly, any serious injury is not going to be healed immediately without some repercussion to either the healer or the patient.  It can vary from exhaustion on the part of the healer, which for large amounts of injuries can quickly incapacitate an unwary healer,  to ravenous appetite and taking things easy for the patient.