Heal Skill

[Haaldaar]

What are your thoughts on players using the Heal skill on themselves? (not the spell)

RAW seems to only mention doing it to an Ally. It came up last night, and at the time, I did not allow it. Mostly because we have two mages with the heal spell and chirurgy, and they were healing like crazy.

But, after thinking,it doesn't make sense from a realism standpoint that they couldn't do something about there own wounds too.

What do you all think?

[Ghostdanser]

The simple answer is ...No. The rules pretty well indicate no first aid on yourself (at least during combat).

Now...would I allow it as a GM...it depends on the situation. I've been through First Aid training in the military...so I know someone can treat their own wounds. A pc might be able to bandage up their own leg or frontal body wound easy enough...but no way in hell will they be able to treat a wound from a backstab. That said...any pc that tries to put a combat session on hold to bandage their own wounds will most likely come down with a terminal case of death (ignoring combat ...bad idea)...and they can't treat themselves for that.

[Arimmus]

Heal self with skill in combat no. Heal self with skill outside of combat: Yes, with penalty to do so. The penalty could be in how much is healed (Maybe half dragon die), or an increase in TN (Say 14 instead of 11)

[Loswaith]

I typically do healing a little differently. the heal action typically takes a minuite (so 4 rounds), having chirurgy lets a character take the heal major action.

However if in combat they suffer a -2 penality, if doing it to themselves they also suffer a -2 penality.