Heal

Tiered Skill — Wis

The Heal skill is used to treat wounded characters, treat illnesses and poison, and deal with disease.

Unless specified otherwise, a heal check costs 4 AP. A character being healed must also contribute 4 AP and cannot use Conditional Actions for the duration of the round. Heal checks without proper medical tools and materials take a -2. In general no specific supplies are needed, as sticks and pieces of clothing can be used to make splints and bandages, etc, but in a case where there are absolutely no materials at hand, all heal checks take a -6 instead.

Heal checks may, unless otherwise specified, be made upon oneself, but one must naturally be both conscious and able, and one takes a -4 penalty.

Uses

Stabilize Dying Character

If a character has negative Hit Points and is losing hit points, a successful Heal check will stabilize the character.

Field Medicine

In battle, a certain amount of damage may be healed immediately. A heal check of DC 20 will restore 1d4+1/every 5 points the check exceeds the DC, maximum +4. A heal check like this must be made within 2 hours of the damage being taken (otherwise long-term care should be used), and a character can only be healed in this manner once per day.

Treat Special Wounds

There are many specific effects that can be treated with the Heal skill, such as effects that reduce speed, cause continual damage, or create a specific condition (stunned, etc). If not otherwise specified, the heal DC to negate these effect is equal to the original DC for the effect.

Treat Poison or Disease

When a character has been affected by poison or disease, a heal check may be made to assist them. The next time the character must make a save against the poison or disease, he may use either the heal check or the result of his save, whichever is higher.

A separate heal check must be made for each poison and disease affecting a character.