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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.

Long-Term Care

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.