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What would u be?
SoulCatcher78:
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--- Quote from: Kaos Wizard on February 19, 2007, 12:33:57 AM ---Do they have Magical healers in the Dresdenverse? Harry makes it sound like Healing Magic is next to impossible.
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It's pretty damn rare. The only instance we have of it on the page is healing done by one of the Queens of the Summer Court, and she's operating with a power source that's way off the scale.
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What about Lea? Didn't she do some healing too?
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Okay, so so far we're talking about a highly-placed noblewoman of the Winter Court, and one of the Summer Ladies herself.
Neither of those are player character concepts. They're NPCs. :)
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Darn! NPCs get all the cool toys *to throw the game completely out of balance* and we get Tylenol and Ace Bandages :'(
Slife:
--- Quote from: iago on February 24, 2007, 09:30:33 PM ---
--- Quote from: Slife on February 24, 2007, 09:21:47 PM ---
--- Quote from: iago on February 19, 2007, 07:33:22 AM ---
--- Quote from: Kaos Wizard on February 19, 2007, 12:33:57 AM ---Do they have Magical healers in the Dresdenverse? Harry makes it sound like Healing Magic is next to impossible.
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It's pretty damn rare. The only instance we have of it on the page is healing done by one of the Queens of the Summer Court, and she's operating with a power source that's way off the scale.
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What about Lea? Didn't she do some healing too?
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Okay, so so far we're talking about a highly-placed noblewoman of the Winter Court, and one of the Summer Ladies herself.
Neither of those are player character concepts. They're NPCs. :)
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Oh, and whoever has the Shroud of Turin at the moment.
Or a relic of comparable power. Scriptural references follow:
2nd Kings 13:
"20 Elisha died and was buried.
Now Moabite raiders used to enter the country every spring.
21 Once while some Israelites were burying a man, suddenly they saw a band of raiders; so they threw the man's body into Elisha's tomb. When the body touched Elisha's bones, the man came to life and stood up on his feet."
Acts 19:
"11 God did extraordinary miracles through Paul, 12 so that even handkerchiefs and aprons that had touched him were taken to the sick, and their illnesses were cured and the evil spirits left them."
On a more Dresden-related note, blood rites page 251, Lord Raith heals himself (yes, he's a vampire lord, but he's been weakened significantly [trying to avoid spoilers]):
--- Quote ---Then Raith's flesh began to glow. His shirt was in shreds, and he tore it from him with a negligent gesture. His skin became suffused with a pale light once more, and I saw his body rippling weirdly around an ungainly hole left of his navel. He was healing. I stared at him tiredly for a minute, then bent over and picked up my sword. He laughed at me. "Dresden. ..."
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Thomas pulls the same trick in a later book, iirc.
Kaos Wizard:
Although we haven't seen examples of healing magic in the Dresdenverse, it dosn't mean it dosn't exist. It might be like a lot of other RPGs where healing magic is essentially "faith magic" and used by priests of clerics. I might allow a healer type character in a game if I thought the player could pull it off. They'd have to be a devout worshipper with strong faith, personality wise they would be like Michael when it comes to the strength of their faith. Considering that Michael's level of true faith is a rare thing in the modern world, it would explain why there aren't healers running all over the planet and why Harry hasn't run into a lot of healing Magic. Honestly I keep waiting for Michael to pull a little "lay on hands" in one of the books.
Besides the players in my games would probably revolt if I didn't allow a healer. I tend to deal out a lot damage to the PCs.
glmagus:
I'd prefer to play, maybe not a Knight, but a character similar to the Knights of the Cross. Perhaps, though, a character with a different faith.
iago:
--- Quote from: Kaos Wizard on February 25, 2007, 03:13:40 AM ---Although we haven't seen examples of healing magic in the Dresdenverse, it dosn't mean it dosn't exist. It might be like a lot of other RPGs where healing magic is essentially "faith magic" and used by priests of clerics. I might allow a healer type character in a game if I thought the player could pull it off. They'd have to be a devout worshipper with strong faith, personality wise they would be like Michael when it comes to the strength of their faith. Considering that Michael's level of true faith is a rare thing in the modern world, it would explain why there aren't healers running all over the planet and why Harry hasn't run into a lot of healing Magic. Honestly I keep waiting for Michael to pull a little "lay on hands" in one of the books.
Besides the players in my games would probably revolt if I didn't allow a healer. I tend to deal out a lot damage to the PCs.
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Then you'll have to go outside of the canon to provide such a character. That's all. Nothing stopping you, when it comes down to it.
But even *Hank McCoy*, a wizard of the Senior Council, was only able to give Harry something to ease the pain, and *maybe* lightly nudge the healing process, when Harry got his hand fried. It's not within the scope of human magic, at a minimum -- possibly because resculpting human flesh requires an atomic-level understanding of biology, or just that it's hard not to accidentally strip the muscle off of the bone. Whatever the case, there's just no foundation for it.
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