Having just mentioned this on the RP crafting thread, I wondered what everyone else's thoughts are on "a wizard did it" as far as magic and healing goes?
I know, in the game that magical healing is talked about by the npcs, I think even in one cutscene they went into detail about how healing is done magically...
But I never liked using magic, divine or otherwise, being used as the cure-all for health problems. It's too much of a crutch, and it takes away from having General Hospital-like drama stories lol. Even in good scifi shows like Star Trek, they don't magically cure everything with science. Plagues still happen, diseases spread, and cure still have to be developed.
I made Taijha to be a healer or a support-healer, because I love that type of role. But I don't want her to be some magical band-aid that swoops into a village and waves her hawthorne twig or whatever it is (oak maybe?) and the plague goes *poof!*
Healing magic should be a band-aid, not life-saving surgery, or if it is used for such, the healer should feel some sort of negative effect from it, empathic feedback, or something... especially if they are a young healer like Taijha and might not know what they are doing fully. And there should be some sort of knowledge of anatomy and how the body works... otherwise mending a gut wound with magic, might screw up the liver, or leave a leak in the lower intestine...
And you would need some training in micro-surgery for healing a lalafell too!
That's my thoughts on it, what are yours? ^_^
I know, in the game that magical healing is talked about by the npcs, I think even in one cutscene they went into detail about how healing is done magically...
But I never liked using magic, divine or otherwise, being used as the cure-all for health problems. It's too much of a crutch, and it takes away from having General Hospital-like drama stories lol. Even in good scifi shows like Star Trek, they don't magically cure everything with science. Plagues still happen, diseases spread, and cure still have to be developed.
I made Taijha to be a healer or a support-healer, because I love that type of role. But I don't want her to be some magical band-aid that swoops into a village and waves her hawthorne twig or whatever it is (oak maybe?) and the plague goes *poof!*
Healing magic should be a band-aid, not life-saving surgery, or if it is used for such, the healer should feel some sort of negative effect from it, empathic feedback, or something... especially if they are a young healer like Taijha and might not know what they are doing fully. And there should be some sort of knowledge of anatomy and how the body works... otherwise mending a gut wound with magic, might screw up the liver, or leave a leak in the lower intestine...
And you would need some training in micro-surgery for healing a lalafell too!
That's my thoughts on it, what are yours? ^_^
