I’m confused about the healing rules. The full text says once you receive proper attention, erase one faint or critical every day or two, and one grievous every week. Why would critical harm heal faster than grievous?
The Basic Moves contradict all of this. They say that once you receive proper care you erase 1-2 harm every day. Which is correct?
Let’s run through a scenario. I have two characters: one takes a baseball bat to the head and ends up marking his faint and 1 grievous box (concussion). The other takes multiple bullet wounds and ends up with one critical box checked. They rush to the hospital, and get medical attention.
What happens if they get patched up, get the bullets out, grab some ibuprofen and head out in a couple of hours?
What happens if they take it easy for a while?
When do they get to erase harm boxes?
Do annoyances from the injuries last beyond the harm boxes? (I’m thinking when someone has broken their arm, but has rested a day gotten a cast, and feels otherwise healthy)
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The critical and grievous healing rates in the book area type, they’re supposed to be reversed. Mark Diaz Truman, we have this set to be fixed already, right?
You as the MC are the ultimate authority on how quickly, or slowly, harm heals. The rules in the book are a guideline but there are ways around this. Hitting the Streets to find a magical or practical heale, or using the Wizard or Veteran’s Workspace might accelerate this process.
Harm is harm, right? If you have 4 harm ticked off you are in very very rough shape, even if you’ve been seen an MD. The MC will be in their rights to call for rolls to do stuff that most people can do easily.
For example, “You want to climb the fire escape up to his apartment? That wouldn’t be a problem for most, but you’re in danger of passing out from that sort of stress. You’re going to need to Keep Your Cool to get up there.”
Ok got it. So the rules in the book are a more accurate guideline then, right? 1-2 a day vs 1 per week is a big difference. Or I guess it just depends on the wound?
Thanks the example helps a lot!
Ya the way harm works out is all in how you suffered it. If you fractured a bone in your arm, anything involving that arm is going to be next to impossible.
Yup! The file on DTRPG is updated with the typo corrected. The new playbooks (coming soon!) will have updated harm rules as well. 😀
So it is faint, then greivous then critical still, correct? Just healing was incorrect … right?
Yep