Pray for Me, Sinners 😂😬

[Manbearcat]

Make sure to check in at the front desk to see if they have a Warlord to shout your spine back on!

 

[Gradine]

I love the irony of the suggestion to have fun at the expense of the concept of non-magical healing in a hospital

 

[Bawylie]

Our prayers are with you, Doc.

 

[BrokenTwin]

I tend to enjoy high fantasy with low or difficult healing magic. Because organic bodies are complicated AF. Plus, it gives me more excuses to have fantasy prosthetics and badass scars, and makes practical mundane healing techniques a lot more valuable.

Good luck at the hospital!

 

[doctorbadwolf]

Do not agree if you have any healing magic.
you have a spell cure wounds. if seals any cut.
If you apply it to shallow muscle cuts, they heal up no scar and no problems. Sometimes with deep cuts the patient dies. The symptoms can vary but people without magic used honey to some success in healing so you dap in some honey before casting the cure wounds and those issues went away. Now you have learned something.

Then you start running in to issues relating to ruptured and cut blood vessels. Further experimentation and some anatomical study later and you have a better success rate. Still with the same basic spell. Some anatomical knowledge and some simple herbalism.

More time and observation can reveal that some other stuff can substitute for honey and that wine or vinegar, tincture of iodine and so forth can clean wounds. That dirt and fingers can cause infections. You can get a long way with a trick that works and some time and observations.

Then some wizards discovers a spell to mend his broom handle, wonders if that would work with broken bones and realises he would nee to see the bones. Makes a note of it on the margins of something or other.
Later another magic user reads the spell and the note and thinks they can adapt something to see the bone, tries it out and lot its works at least for simple breaks.
Now we have a basic diagnostic and 2 healing tricks.

I love this.

I've been spending way too much time at hospitals the last few weeks with my Father. He is recovering slowly from a major surgery. I wish you good tests and speedy recovery friend!

And the same to your father.

Hope things go well.

I do not think too much about medicine in a fantasy setting. The campaign circles around the PCs and they never get sick or need cares from common colds and such. They may get a plague or sickness from a magical disease, but rarely since cures and healing is so common to the PCs.

Other problems such as sanitation is not brought up much either. Large cities have a sewer system mostly for places to make a dungeon, but small towns that dump their filth into the river or onto the street is passed over.

Yeah my players tend to want to know, and I tend to include NPCs relating to those sorts of things, from physicians to engineers to professionals of all sorts.

Our prayers are with you, Doc.

Thanks you

I tend to enjoy high fantasy with low or difficult healing magic. Because organic bodies are complicated AF. Plus, it gives me more excuses to have fantasy prosthetics and badass scars, and makes practical mundane healing techniques a lot more valuable.

Good luck at the hospital!

I'm always a bit torn between this, and the sort of thing described at the top of this post.

 

[Tun Kai Poh]

Wishing you all the best doctorbadwolf.

I once took part in the 2019 Cure Light Wounds Jam on itch.io, and you can take a look at some of the entries to see what kinds of ideas the participants came up with! Although my entry wasn't fantasy, it was sci-fi: The Ech0 Consultation is a one-shot duet game inspired by the Sector General novels of James White!

The Ech0 Consultation by Role Over Play Dead

2 doctors in 1 body. Complicated collaborations. Risky medicine.

roleoverplaydead.itch.io

And it's available in French, too (as part of a collection)!

ECH0 by Khelren

Une collection de deux jeux narratifs: "ECH0" et "La consultation ECH0"

khelren.itch.io

 

[doctorbadwolf]

Wishing you all the best doctorbadwolf.

I once took part in the 2019 Cure Light Wounds Jam on itch.io, and you can take a look at some of the entries to see what kinds of ideas the participants came up with! Although my entry wasn't fantasy, it was sci-fi: The Ech0 Consultation is a one-shot duet game inspired by the Sector General novels of James White!

The Ech0 Consultation by Role Over Play Dead

2 doctors in 1 body. Complicated collaborations. Risky medicine.

roleoverplaydead.itch.io

And it's available in French, too (as part of a collection)!

ECH0 by Khelren

Une collection de deux jeux narratifs: "ECH0" et "La consultation ECH0"

khelren.itch.io

Oh wow! Okay! I’m excited to dig through all that!

Thank you!

 

[Art Waring]

Best wishes on your results and your recovery from my wife and I <3.

Depending on how gritty you like your fantasy setting, just how advanced in the medicine? Do they believe that demons or spirits inhabit your body when sick? If that's the case, some bloodletting may be in order.

 

[Voadam]

So, I’m at the ER today, getting many tests and a neurologist consultation, possibly a lumbar puncture (spinal tap).

Hopefully the care here goes up to 11, as it were.

Hang in there.

Anyway, anyone ever given extensive thought to medical care in fantasy worlds?

Mostly limited to having people like this running around when people call for a doctor.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

Hang in there.

Yeah the worst part so far was the MRI, which at 4 distinct scans too over an hour, but we confirmed I have to get a lumbar puncture, so that won’t be fun.

Mostly limited to having people like this running around when people call for a doctor.

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Haha nice!

 

[Voadam]

Haha nice!

I have done a bunch of gothic horror themed stuff so plague doctors and mad scientist doctors have come up.

In one game where I was using recognizable characters as NPCs the party was getting information from Jerry Lewis the top alchemical professor at Lepidstadt University. One PC caught the allusion and offered him some snack nuts as a friendly gesture as they were eliciting plot points relevant to their investigation. Lewis thanked him and lectured about the development of military drugs the university was developing when he started going into anaphylactic shock, cutting off his divulging of plot info (5e's success now on a failed skill roll for complication later optional rule kicking in) so the characters shouted out for a doctor, knowing the medical school wing was not far down the hall from the Alchemy department. So steampunk Jodi Whittaker showed up saying she was a doctor.

In my 5e conversion of the Iron Gods adventure path (which is an ancient crashed space ship and localized supertech and post-apocalypse areas in D&D world AP) there was a hobgoblin cleric focused on undead in the original. I reskinned her to be a Necro-Surgeon which worked well as a sort of MASH WWII/Korean War medical camp mash up with fantasy undead creation. The campaign has also had riffs on Star Trek's emergency hologram program and Paranoia's doc bots.

I don't think a lot about the big picture medical system of the fantasy world, but I have had medical stuff worked in as discrete setting elements multiple times and they felt right for the game and the game world feel I was going for.

 

[HaroldTheHobbit]

Best of luck!

Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 4e is my favourite system for disease!

In the latest Lustria book they added lots of tropical goodies such as Bleeding Eye Rot, Choking Lungblight and Necrotic Foot Rot. The namn alone of the last one make shure you roleplay washing your feet regularly and have a stock of dry socks. <3

Edit: And you may have killed the orc, but the gangrene from his rusty sword still mean you have to amputate your right leg a while later if you don’t make the rolls. Pure love!

 

[Eyes of Nine]

Best of luck and speedy recovery @doctorbadwolf !

 

[doctorbadwolf]

Best of luck!

Thanks!

Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 4e is my favourite system for disease!

In the latest Lustria book they added lots of tropical goodies such as Bleeding Eye Rot, Choking Lungblight and Necrotic Foot Rot. The namn alone of the last one make shure you roleplay washing your feet regularly and have a stock of dry socks. <3

Edit: And you may have killed the orc, but the gangrene from his rusty sword still mean you have to amputate your right leg a while later if you don’t make the rolls. Pure love!

Brutal!

Best of luck and speedy recovery @doctorbadwolf !

Thank you!

The grey spot and floater in my right eye are faded enough today that I can’t see them when outside in the annoyingly bright sun, and the faulty-mirror distortion in my left peripheral field seems to be gone or small enough I can’t easily detect it, and the pressure I’ve had in my head isn’t noticeable today.
Yay meds!

Of course one of the meds they game me makes me fee puked all day, but hey, can’t win them all.

 

[Dioltach]

Thanks!

Brutal!

Thank you!

The grey spot and floater in my right eye are faded enough today that I can’t see them when outside in the annoyingly bright sun, and the faulty-mirror distortion in my left peripheral field seems to be gone or small enough I can’t easily detect it, and the pressure I’ve had in my head isn’t noticeable today.
Yay meds!

Of course one of the meds they game me makes me fee puked all day, but hey, can’t win them all.

Sounds like progess! Best of luck.

 

[ilgatto]

Sinner, so praying. Godspeed.

 

[Micah Sweet]

Good luck

Cast: greater restoration
Not in the context of rpg games because that is not the kind of gameplay I want to worry about.

But I do wonder that a world that had magic, would they come to scientific theory a lot sooner than in our world but from a practical anatomy and germ theory of disease direction rather then celestial mechanics.

I don't think so. The existence of healing magic, especially Greater Restoration, disincentivizes learning anything about anatomy or disease. Why bother when you can get someone to ask their god to make the problem go away?

 

[Micah Sweet]

Hope things go well.

I do not think too much about medicine in a fantasy setting. The campaign circles around the PCs and they never get sick or need cares from common colds and such. They may get a plague or sickness from a magical disease, but rarely since cures and healing is so common to the PCs.

Other problems such as sanitation is not brought up much either. Large cities have a sewer system mostly for places to make a dungeon, but small towns that dump their filth into the river or onto the street is passed over.

Not all campaigns only care about the PCs. That is  a playstyle only.

 

[UngainlyTitan]

I don't think so. The existence of healing magic, especially Greater Restoration, disincentivizes learning anything about anatomy or disease. Why bother when you can get someone to ask their god to make the problem go away?

Will the god cooperate? All the time? It is really a setting assumption and you can justify it either way.

 

[Micah Sweet]

Will the god cooperate? All the time? It is really a setting assumption and you can justify it either way.

You sure can. But going by the WotC 5e default, it looks like if you have the cash, you can get a healing spell cast for you pretty easily. My own preference would make it much harder to get clerical healing without a substantial donation to the faith in question or actually being part of the priest's congregation. I don't believe WotC 5e makes that assumption.