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Ross
Healing
All injuries require treatment in order to heal properly. Once the injury has
been healed through magic, herbs, or healing skills, the recovery process can
begin, as detailed in Character Law. For skills, generally, First Aid can heal
light injuries, Second Aid can heal medium injuries, and Surgery is required for
severe injuries.
Note that an injury is any result of physical damage that causes bleeding or
a penalty to actions.
Difficulties given for treatments below are for the simplest forms of these
injuries. Some injuries may be more difficult to treat because of their nature.
Attempting to heal a wound without a successful Diagnostics roll results in a
-30 to healing attempts.
First Aid Treatments
Stop Light Bleeding (1-2 hits/rnd) [Light]
Each attempt takes 1 round. If patient undertakes strenuous activity in the
first day of recovery, bleeding may resume.
Stop Light Bleeding (3-5 hits/rnd) [Medium]
Each attempt takes 1 round per 2 hits/rnd of bleeding. If patient undertakes
strenuous activity in the first day of recovery, bleeding may resume.
Tourniquet [Hard]
Bleeding on a limb at 6-10 hits may be stopped with a tourniquet in three
rounds. Until the wound is healed, the tourniquet must be released every four
minutes and 3 hits/ rnd taken for 5 rounds.
Splinting a Broken Bone [Hard]
Splinting does not heal a fracture, but it does make it possible to transport
the patient without risk of further injury. If a fracture is not splinted, any
movement will require a medium maneuver roll each hour to avoid taking 1-10 hits
of additional damage. The maneuver difficulty will increase by one level for
each pace beyond a walk attempted during the hour. Special checks may be made
for any normal moving maneuvers required.
Second Aid Treatments
Setting and Casting Fractures [Hard]
This action will heal a fracture, and allow recovery to begin.
Cauterizing a Wound [Easy]
Cauterizing will stop bleeding to any degree, provided 1-10 points of burning
damage are inflicted for every hit/rnd of bleeding.
Suturing a Wound [Medium]
Open wounds have a chance of becoming infected. If a wound is not cleaned,
sewn and bandaged, the character must make an RR against a bubonic disease
(infection). The level of the infection is 1/2 the penalty for the wound, plus
the hits/rnd the wound was originally bleeding. In hot moist climes, the RR is
at -30.
Surgery Treatments
Exploratory Surgery [Light]
Internal injuries may require exploratory surgery to make a successful
Diagnostics roll.
Major Vessel Repair [Very Hard]
Stops bleeding of a wound that is more than 5 hits/rnd.
Muscle or Tendon Repair [Very Hard]
Does not repair destroyed tissues, only torn or cut ones.
Minor Nerve Repair [Absurd]
Temporary stat penalties result, depending on the nerve damaged.
Reattach Limb [Insane]
Limb is functional again in 100 days. Both temporary and permanent stat
penalties will result, depending on the limb.
Organ Damage [Extremely Hard to Absurd]
Repairs damage to an organ, restoring its function.
Organ Transplants [Absurd to Insane]
This does assume that a donor organ is available.
Animal Healing
Animal Healing works just like First Aid for animals. In addition, if a
character wishes to use Second Aid or Surgery skills on Animals, the Second Aid
or Surgery skill bonus may not be more than the Animal Healing skill bonus of
the character.
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Battle of Manila Bay
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