Re: (TFT) New file on Healing Spells in TFT.

[Peter von Kleinsmid <pvk@oz.net>]

These are pretty nice, which I say even though I like the lack of 
healing spells in TFT.

I like that they don't do the D&D "heal during combat!" or even 
"between combats!" thing.

I think though that I'd like to see bed rest still be effective, 
because it's a major difference in what you can do to be marching 
around or resting. So reducing the resting healing rate to even 
slower than 1 per 2 days for most versions when using this spell, 
makes resting have little effect, which I don't like. I'd probably 
keep the full effect of rest on top of the spell effect, or even 
possibly have some other healing magic which does require (or work 
much better) when resting, because I like that dilemma of restricting 
actions to heal faster.

Also I didn't see what happens if the caster misses the second day's 
roll, or if there are crit fail/success results, or what happens if 
the spell doesn't get cast for the second day, or if you are using 
Lesser Healing or better, do you get half the effect healed the first 
day, or do you need to wait for the second? And, when exactly does 
the healing happen, for situations where we're tracking events by 
hours throughout the day?

I'd tend to think it'd take effect 24 hours after each casting. Maybe 
even measure it in healing days, to avoid the "second day casting" 
complications. For example, normal bed rest gives one healing day per 
day. The equivalent would then be:

Minor: one healing day per casting, 24 hours after cast, max one 
spell in effect per person.
Lesser: two healing days per casting, one after 12 hours, one after 24 hours.
Basic: three healing days per casting, one per 8 hours for 24 hours.
Greater: four healing days per casting, one per 6 hours for 24 hours.
Regenerative: five healing days per casting, one per 5 hours for 20 
hours, then another at 24 hours.

So track days of rest, and each time someone gets to two, they trade 
them for 1 point of healing.

Failures mean no one can successfully try again on the patient for 24 hours.

Maybe have a crit success count as a one-level-higher spell (with 
crit Regenerative being 6, one per 4 hours), and crit fail inflicting 
a point of damage.

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