Hi!
I'm Towint B'niyvyl, and I'm the newly trained (I hope! <g>) GM responsible for Healing Systems. I am writing this note to introduce myself to you, and to let you all know a bit about what I'm going to be hopefully doing! I'm going to start out with who I am, then go into what Healing Systems are, and finally, a bit about what I hope to be doing for DR in general, and as it affects Empaths in specific.
Please note that my comments about what I'm going to be hopefully doing are my own thoughts and plans, and there is no timetable which I can or will discuss, nor have they necessarily even been approved. This is just a guideline, because I think that you want to have at least some idea of my own thoughts and desires on these matters.
Okay, as to who I am. I am <the text seems to be somehow garbled>. I have a longtime background with gaming and healing systems, and I've been involved with DR for more than <garbled text>. I <great amounts of garbled text follow>. I hope that this answers every question that you might have about me, and of course, if you still have any, <something seems to have erased this passage>.
What are 'Healing Systems'? Well, when you type HEALTH, you're looking at Healing Systems information. When you see an NPC Empath, you're seeing part of the Healing Systems in DR. When you use a healing herb, you're using part of the Healing Systems in DR. Empathic healing might be considered to be part of Healing Systems, but actually, the reverse is really true. Healing Systems is actually part of the entire Empath portfolio, so I report to Brigdha, our Empath Guru.
There are a great number of things that I plan to work on... here are a few of them:
1 -- Natural Healing
2 -- Natural Infection of open wounds
3 -- New diseases, poisons, and other things for Empaths to heal
Natural Healing will be the very gradual healing of wounds (and the even more gradual healing of some scars) that will take place naturally over time. If you want to think about this, consider how long it takes for a paper cut to heal... then think how long a sword wound might take... As for scars... anyone else have tiny scars that are older than a decade or two?
Natural Infection of open wounds would simply be the possibility of an open wound getting infected.
I'm not going to go into any further details about the above ideas at this time, although if anyone wishes to post comments about them, I'll certainly be reading them, but until I actually manage to code the above ideas, and get them approved, they'll remain in the category of 'things I am trying to do'... <g>
Please feel free to post replies to this note that are to me personally in the Replies category, but for ideas regarding improvements to Healing Systems, please post them in the Ideas for Improvement category.
Towint B'niyvyl
Healing Systems GameMaster
