Force Power: Acceleterate Healing

[shootingwomprats]

Accelerate healing (R&E p.143) one minute of meditation is required and states the Control difficulty is based on the wound level of the character, "...Moderate for incapacitated characters, Difficult for mortally wounded characters.

R&E p.97, "The incapacitated character is now awake, but is groggy, cannot use skills, and can only move at half his "cautious" rate (this is 1/4 Move)." For mortally wounded, "The character can't do anything until healed."

It would seem RAW are in conflict here. I am of two thoughts on this:

1. The Force power is written incorrectly and the player cannot use his Force skills until such time as he is healed to at least Wounded 2.

2. Though the Force user is badly hurt he is able to rally his body using the Force and this is reflected in how badly he is wounded. I am uncomfortable with this because it blatantly requires one to ignore established rules. Furthermore it makes having even a minor Force power pretty awesome!

Thoughts or criticisms?
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It seems pretty clear from the example with "Ana" on Page 143 (R&E) that your Option #2 appears to be the RAW answer. It appears that this particular force power can be attempted even when a character is incapacitated or mortally wounded (Ana is the latter).

What's less clear is if any injury penalty applies at all to the accelerate healing rolls themselves. In other words, does a wounded twice character need to reduce their Control die by 2D before making an accelerate healing roll attempt? If so, what penalty do you use for an incapacitated or mortally wounded character?

My read of the RAW is that, for this particular force action, there is no injury die penalty for the accelerate healing rolls, regardless of injury level. What do other people think?

[shootingwomprats]

I think you are correct. I really don't like this power as written. Its a seriously bad @ss power. Quite nice. Seeing as you apparently can use Medpacks with it as well. Sick, seriously sick.

Let me give you an example.

Dirk is Mortally wounded. He empties his mind allowing the Force to flow through him and heal his body. He spends a minute in meditation (longer if the character wants to roleplay it out that way) then makes his Control roll (he has Control 4D+1), he must make Difficult roll and the GM decides its 18. Dirk rolls 22 and is successful. He rolls 2D+2 and gets a 9, improving from Mortally Wounded to Incapacitated.

Nur-roke the party medic with First Aid 5D slaps a medpack on Dirk. This requires a Moderate roll, GM decided 15, Nur-roke rolls a 19. Dirk improves to Wound 2.

Nur-roke decides to use another medpack on Dirk. This would normally be an easy roll but since its the second use of a medpack in 24 hours it increases difficulty to Moderate, the GM again decides on 15. Nur-roke rolls 16. Dirk improves from Wounded 2 to Wounded 1.

Twelve hours pass and Dirk can roll another healing roll 2D+2 and rolls 9. He now improves from Wounded 1 to fully healed.

So in 12 hours, using the Accelerated Healing power and 2 medpacks he is fully healed. Seriously crazy I thinks.
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[griff]

Yes a character that is incapacitated is knocked unconscious, but only for 10D minutes. After that the character should be able to use the force power. But I think more healing after that is a bit much.
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[DougRed4]

SWR, I don't think that sounds that unreasonable. I guess it comes down to how long you want your characters to be walking around wounded. Personally, I prefer them to be able to get themselves back up to speed fairly quickly and get back to the adventuring!

Your example supposes successes on all of the rolls and the use of numerous med packs. But it's still stuff that takes time and resources, so it still has a 'cost' of some kind, at least.
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[shootingwomprats]

You are correct I had assumed successes. I also did not even bother to take into account possible Character Point expenditure to make the rolls, which the players would most certainly do in the case of a mortally wounded character to heal.
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Don and/or Daniel - I think your example with Dirk the Durable makes sense, and still includes considerable risk and uncertainty. If Dirk misses that first control roll, he's in serious trouble - he'll have to start rolling every round to see if he dies or not. And given that the force power took a minute to attempt, there's no second chance without some immediate medical assistance from Nur-roke. (In other words, if the control roll is failed, my take is that the character would have to start making the rolls every round to see if they die or not DURING that first minute).

Griff, my take on this force power is that an incapacitated character wouldn't need to wait the 10D minutes before making the control roll, since even a mortally wounded character is allowed to make the roll.

[shootingwomprats]

Do you think that the character while wounded starts to meditate and immediately gets to roll to heal then does so again in 12 hours? Or do you think they enter a healing trance that allows the Force to accelerate the healing process, after 12 hours they may make their first roll and another one in 12 hours after that?

Do they need to remain resting to have this work effectively? R&E p.98, "Healing characters can do virtually nothing but rest. A character who tries to work, exercise or adventure must subtract -1D from his Strength when he makes a healing roll."

This seems to make a whole lot more sense to me. The example R&R p.143 strongly suggests that character can immediately make the first check after meditating for one minute and successfully making the Control roll. Though the Effect suggests 12 hour segments between rolls.

Also, would the character suffer the modifier for being wounded when rolling his Force skill. Wound 1 (-1D), Wound 2 or higher (-2D)? Or is this another case in which a Force power supercede's an already established rule mechanic?
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[shootingwomprats]

Accelerate Healing (revised)
Control Difficulty: Easy for wounded characters; Moderate for incapacitated characters; Difficult for mortally wounded characters.
Required Powers: None
Time to Use: One minute of meditation
Effect: A Jedi who uses this power successfully may make two natural healing rolls for the current day (12 hours apart) regardless of the severity of the injury. The Jedi gets a +2 modifier to both Strength rolls to heal.

Notes: the Jedi requires one minute of meditation to use the Force to alter his bodies natural rhythms and accelerate the healing process. If the roll fails the character may attempt this action again, but the difficulty goes up one level for each additional attempt. If successful the player may make two natural healing rolls at +2. The first after 12 hours and the second 12 hours after that (twice in a 24 hour period). During this time the character should be resting. If the character tries to work, exercise or adventure subtract -1D from his Strength when he makes a healing roll.
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[garhkal]

Maybe you misunderstood me red.

Your Initial example for Dirk failing his control roll (to use Acc heal) seemed to include the nat heal roll that failed as it seemed like you already had him pushed from incap to MW.. That's why i said what i did. Unless you were on about someone ALREADY at MW trying to use it.
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[DougRed4]

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