Questions about healing

[kamqute]

I have a series of annoying nagging questions about healing. If they have been answered elsewhere, I apologize, but I have looked through the FAQ and the Rules Handbook fairy thoroughly.

-Do potions of Laumspur and "Healing Potions" restore any lost EP or only those resulting from combat?

-When it says in potion entries "when swallowed after combat", does this refer simply to any time after the wounds are sustained, or something more specific? If so, how long after? If there are two successive combat sections, can you take the potion in between?

-Does the Magnakai discipline of Curing heal any EP or only those lost in combat, like Healing?

-When Endurance Points are restored, how do you determine whether they are combat injuries or non-combat injuries that are healed (except in obvious situations, i.e. "he dresses your wounds")?

-Do you begin new LW adventures with restored Endurance Points? When you switch from Kai to Magnakai, are your EP restored?

-When you find healing items, can you just scarf them up and not have them take up space?

[Zipp]

kamqute said:

I have a series of annoying nagging questions about healing. If they have been answered elsewhere, I apologize, but I have looked through the FAQ and the Rules Handbook fairy thoroughly.

Hello there Kam, I'll do my best to answer your questions, but many of these are matters of different play styles.

-Do potions of Laumspur and "Healing Potions" restore any lost EP or only those resulting from combat?

This is up to interpretation, actually, but I always played that healing potions restore anything, as they are essentially magical potions. We know that the Kai Discipline of Healing does not restore any damage outside of what was lost in combat (and again, soime people change this to mean "physical damage"). Another reason I interpret potions as healing any damage is because often in a gamebook they will be the only means of restoring damage besides that lost in combat. It just makes sense.

It's a good question, because potion rules get changed a lot. Some people play that you can only drink them immediately after combat, though this makes no sense in my opinion.

I always try to imagine how I would act if I were in the books myself, and how the world would work around me.

-When it says in potion entries "when swallowed after combat", does this refer simply to any time after the wounds are sustained, or something more specific? If so, how long after? If there are two successive combat sections, can you take the potion in between?

As mentioned above, this rule is also up to interpretation. Some people play that potions must be swallowed immediately after combat. I say this makes no sense. Some people defend it by saying that after a certain point, the potion can't do anything for you, and the wounds have to heal naturally, but anyone with a knowledge of medical herbs knows that they can help healing at all stages of recovery.

Anyways, if you want my interpretation of the rules, and the way that most people play it, then potions can be used at any time EXCEPT when in combat.

-Does the Magnakai discipline of Curing heal any EP or only those lost in combat, like Healing?

Well, unless anyone has a newletter stating otherwise, the rules don't specify that it has to be combative wounds, so I would say it heals all wounds. But note, the abilities of Kai Healing don't stack with it, so you only gain +1 back each section, not +2.

-When Endurance Points are restored, how do you determine whether they are combat injuries or non-combat injuries that are healed (except in obvious situations, i.e. "he dresses your wounds")?

If your wounds are healed by sections in the book, where someone else works on you, then you get to apply the healing to any points lost.

-Do you begin new LW adventures with restored Endurance Points? When you switch from Kai to Magnakai, are your EP restored?

Yes, always.

-When you find healing items, can you just scarf them up and not have them take up space?

Yes you can!

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I always took the text "restores 4 ENDURANCE points when swallowed after combat" to mean that you can't drink it immediately and take your ENDURANCE above your starting level. I certainly could never be bothered to have separate amounts of Combat and Non-combat damage.

[Dusk Fox]

More to the point, the potion can't be swallowed DURING combat, so you can't use it to keep yourself from dying when someone is beating the tar out of you.

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Ah, yeah, that too.

[kamqute]

Thank you so much again, to everybody!