Healing Surges innate Blessed band aids

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

During that exposition it was also implied that the doctor would "patch up the crew" so I'm assuming he got a bandage. But you're right - the injury wasn't life-threatening, or even life-altering. Jayne was up and fighting in a bar within a few scenes.

It was most definitely life-altering - Jayne was taken down by a girl a few scenes later! He must have been hurt worse then it seemed!

 

[VannATLC]

Heh.

I want a gumby-based character.

All said and done, it is the picador who has given me the most trouble, so far, and is that kind of design inconcistancy that has caused the giant rifts between differing ideas of what HP is supposed to represent, alongside things like 'Cure' spells, etc.

I'll live with it, but I'll probably house rule something to go with with it.

Most of the problems can probably be resolved by discussing the way the save takes place.

I'll probably allow a free save at the cost of the damage repeat, and describe it as worsening the flesh wound, but that the harpoon is too shallow to cause truly serious injury.

 

[Campbell]

Like I'm made out of bubblegum?

"I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass ... and I'm all out of bubblegum."

It's originally from They Live (1988), a John Carter flick. Great movie.

YouTube Link

 

[Oldtimer]

"I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass ... and I'm all out of bubblegum."

It's originally from They Live (1988), a John Carter flick. Great movie.

YouTube Link

I'm sure you meant to write "John Carpenter"...

 

[Campbell]

I'm sure you meant to write "John Carpenter"...

Yep. Mixed up two kinds of awesome.

 

[Nightchilde-2]

As I've said a number of times, I can't think of a single other RPG where a character can innately heal themselves without referencing the healing "action" to Spells, long term rest, charms or potions, innate special abilities like fast healing and class ability D&D monks ability or OD&D mystics ability regeneration not in GURPS Ars Magica, Rifts.

Earthdawn.

 

[Knightlord]

I don't buy the explanation of the spear getting hooked on clothing/gear -- if I run a character with minimal clothing, shirtless or what have you, the explanation fails.

All explanations fail if you analyze them enough. Eventually, you're going to come up with a situation or concept where the explanation does not work. Why? Because rules and explanations are static and do not change. Our imaginations, do. Therefore, the explanations cannot encompass everyone's idea of what's truely happening or fit with everyone's character concept. Thankfully, there is a way to rectify this failure: Come up and roleplay a new explanation, one that satisfies your own sense of whats going on in the game.

Heck, that's half fun.

 

[Lizard]

It was most definitely life-altering - Jayne was taken down by a girl a few scenes later! He must have been hurt worse then it seemed!

The crew of the Serenity was playing LBB Traveller.
River was playing Exalted. (Or was the GM's girlfriend)

 

[WayneLigon]

Before people start claiming that human skin doesn't work like that, I'll mention that I saw a shao-lin monk put a spear point to his throat and bend the haft to almost a 90 degree angle by leaning against it, without taking any injury. Then he did it with 6 spears, so be a little careful when you make pronouncements about what kind of punishment the human body can withstand...

Magicians do that sort of thing all the time. It's called 'a trick'.

 

[Lacyon]

I do?

Oh, yeah, wait, I do.

Well, I do apologize if I put words in your mouth. I thought I saw you post something like that somewhere, but I could have gotten it mixed up with someone else.