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Marcy · **02-15-2016, 01:26 PM**

(02-15-2016, 01:02 PM)Graeham Wrote: It depends on what you want, really. Role-players will often have completely different views in regards to issues such as injuries and the inevitable healing process. Some role-players will have their character shrug off any injury and embrace instantaneous healing as a convenient plot device.

Others will take the time to ensure that injuries are meaningful and leave a lasting impression - which, in my opinion, is the ideal route to go down if you're looking to embrace depth and character development.

It really depends on what's in store for the character and the characters they are RPing with, IMO. Some things are just not fun to drag out, and can become an annoying roadblock instead of an interesting story point. Sometimes an injury is unplanned and unmitigated -- I have and will write off injuries to my character that have been done without consent, or presented poorly.

This does not seem like the case here, OP is just looking for pointers. While we are at it, getting a punctured lung with or without magical healing and no antibiotics has a high risk of infection -- this is the real killer of medieval battlefields, many weapons were specifically designed to make nastier wounds that will be harder to heal and seal, and will therefore fester more quickly.

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Triangles! The puncture from this would bleed out in minutes if not plugged, and pulling the flesh back together to mend will require something like peat moss to keep pressure. Not sanitary.

Playing out recovery RP can be a lot of fun, I write low-magic characters that are averse to most magical healing because I enjoy the medical/anatomical aspect of it combined with the setting's specific parameters. I'd say if you have someone willing to work through the injury with you, it's worth stretching for the potential RP, if not it's not a crime to skip it unless you have specific developments in mind.

How to properly RP this injury?

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