I read about a house rule, where each time you got wounds from a hit, you'd place them in the same pile, thus after 4 hits you'd have 4 piles.
Then when you wanted to heal, you'd heal each pile seperately.
Just can't find that house rule anymore
Wounds and first aid house rule?
That's a good bit extra in the book keeping, especially after a game, and players are attempting to make six differant wound piles rubber banned together in their box...or w/e.
It is, however, I fantastic idea - just not practicle in my games.
My problem is mainly that I can't find the house rule.
So I can't judge if I find it good or not...
You are probably looking for this:
What you said is basically what the house rule is. Collect wounds per injury, allow each injury to be healed once, then everything goes into the big pile.
I'm a big fan of this rule (though I haven't used in in the game yet). I don't see how it adds much more bookkeeping than we already have at the end of the session, with things with counters that need to be written down somewhere.
Well, either that or, like I said in the other post, if you don't want more bookeeping, you can easily say that at the end of the session, all wounds merges into one pile and that's it.
Anyone using this?
Conceptually it sounds good but when you've got 3 or so healing options (first aid, cleric, wizard of light etc.) and have to track all 3 on @ wound pile... that does seem cumbersome.
I wouldn't track them separately. Either try one or the other. Getting 3 attempts on each injury would probably be a bit too good anyway.
But I'll try to do run some tests with this rule and compare it to the official rule. See how it works out.
mcv said:
I wouldn't track them separately. Either try one or the other. Getting 3 attempts on each injury would probably be a bit too good anyway.
I'd go that way too. I think you could do it that way : once you've recieve healing from any source (first aid, magic healing, healing draught), you put all remaining wounds into the "permanent" pile (just decice that this is always the last pile on your left or right). This pile can only get further healing from long term care and rest.