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You have one post to justify severed limbs, crippling injuries and eyepatches in a setting with healing magic
>>47205843
They make you look cool.
Healing magic is imperfect.
>>47205843
you have to get to them quick enough.
or
The magic is rare.
or.
Those with the talent to do it are rare.
or
Those with the talent to do it charge out the ass.
>>47205843
Healing magic only avoids scarring if it is performed before the wounds begin healing. Healing magic doesn't restore totally amputated or destroyed limbs, and cannot replace eyes.
>>47205843
Healing magic doesn't restore, it just accelerates the healing. If e.g. you are stabbed then the magic makes the wound close faster. If however your arm is severed it will create a stump unless you quickly attach the arm before casting
>>47205843
1) Wounds that are more difficult or even dangerous to heal (vile damage in D&D, aggravated damage in WoD/Exalted).
2) Healing magic that can only handle superficial or light wounds (most healing spells in D&D; you need regenerate to grow back limbs or restoration to heal a broken arm [ability damage]).
3) Healing magic isn't cheap, free, reliable, and/or easy. (literally any setting that isn't D&D)
>>47205843
Curse scarring.
Healing just magically accelerates and improves the body's normal repair capabilities. Scars will remain, as will any deformities, crippled limbs, etc.
Personal choice.
>>47205843
Healing magic works like OP's capability of creativity.
>>47205843
Wounds inflicted by cursed weapons can't be fully healed
>>47205843
Can't afford it
>>47205843
A warrior who does not remove a removable scar is one who holds a grudge. Was in one Gundam series.
>>47205843
Healing magic can only restore your hit points, it can't remove scars or lost organs/limbs.
>>47205843
damage and the healing that restores it is like an arms race. As healing magic gets better, those who wish to have effective weapons alter them to make sure the injuries they leave cannot be healed, which leads the healers to innovate.
>>47205843
I like severed limbs, crippling injuries and eyepatches
Allergy to magic
Not using healing magic imbues you with special powers. It's a divine universal degree that accepting wounds is rewarded.
>>47205843
There isn't any in the setting you are picturing
Problem solved.
Normal healing magic can only seal wounds and cure minor diseases, more potent magic that would be able to restore missing limbs is rare or expensive and not avaiable to anyone
>>47205892
this
Not everyone can afford 5gpXspell levelXcaster level for a casting of regeneration.
>>47205843
Cause they aren't a bitch.
>>47205843
Price and availability. There's billions of people in the world, but how many top notch surgeons?
>>47205843
You have to know a druid and be his friend.
>>47205892
i like it
>>47205843
>>47205843
>resurrection spells exist
>important people have died for reasons other than old age
Having trouble reconciling this in my setting honestly. I guess people capable of such magic are just rare, and such powerful wizards are often rather secluded and aloof.
>>47205902
I was gonna say the first one, and cite "particularly evil or vile shit like Morgul Knives and stuff".
Some forms of Undead might potentially have that kind of thing going in some settings, or you might have universally despised intelligent evil beings that manufactured poison that did stuff like that.
Or say, special, nasty things like Gáe Bulg.
Because you're hiding a bomb behind the eyepatch and it looks cool
>>47205843
Low level healing only supercharges your bodies own healing abilities.
High level healing is too limited, expensive or the guys who can do it are assholes.
>>47206170
why not make it that resurrection is not perfect? The soul (after dying) is not ok with returning to a body it knows is dead. Make it that they slowly lose the will to live/become mentally unstable/have their body start to fail
The healer who knows how to cast Regenerate is 200 miles out through monster territory, with no vehicles that make such a trip a day trip, mind, and no one in the village feels like dying to get your arm reattached.
>>47206170
In D&D theres a lot of reasons for that though, the soul must want to return to life for resurrection magic to work for starters, and even if they want theres a lot of thing that can happen to a sould after death, they might be trapped somewhere, they are might be stuck as amnesiac ghosts or they were devoured or destroyed by something, some gods may forbid their worshipers from returning to life, etc.
Also, most resurrection magic has limitarions, such as the need to preserve the person's corpse, time limits or extremely rare components
>>47205843
Healing magic can only cure infections, not magically mend scares, sort of a mystic form of antibiotics.
>>47206170
People either take precautions against it (raise dead can only do so much, and the higher you go the rarer the spellcasters who can pull it off are), pissed off the church, or the magic is sufficiently rare in setting.
>>47205843
Magi of the healing arts might be on time, yet they can't heal the limbs properly, which will cause necrosis in the wounded limbs.With probable zombification if the limbs are not severed
They might set the bones right, but a small mistake might make the bones keep growing until the subject becomes trapped into it's own flesh, unable to move.re-breaking the bones on regular intervals might prevent this though
An eye can be grown back, but sight is influenced by what lens you see the world. And an eye formed from pure magic might not be gentle on the mind.There have been several cases where subjects have torn out their new eyes, for they "spoke to them"
Alas, such is the way of magic, to eat and devour without much consequence. Yet we love it oh so dearly.
>>47206312
I forgot that a lot of souls go through reincarnation or merge with some outer plane, and the worst of all, you can just get glued to the wall of unfaithful for all eternity, really theres a lot of fucking reasons
I have never seen thread more thoroughly shut the OP down.
>>47205843
You have one post to justify eyeglasses in a setting with laser eye surgery.
>>47206415
The lenses would change the beam , making it impossible to hit your enemies with the laser
>>47206168
Sauce? The line technique is shite but the execution otherwise is quite excellent.
>>47205843
You don't have the money to pay for them
You don't live in a place that has experienced enough wizards
You want to look like a badass
Nowadays exist almost bionic eyes, do you see every one eyed dude with one? no? why?
>>47205843
not covered by your HMO
>>47205892
I think Artemis Fowl did this to a degree. At one point, Artemis has to reattach the fairy officer character's trigger finger using magic, and he has to make sure it lines up correctly so she doesn't end up with a useless gun hand.
>>47205843
It's too expensive
>>47205843
Sacrificing parts of the body for power. If you give something up for knowledge/magic (ie. Odin) and then heal it, the being you got the power off won't be best pleased...
>>47205843
Because of the nervous system.
Every time you regrow a section of the body, you get a new section of nervous tissue with it.
Do you know how nervous tissue attunes itself? Through pain.
So, imagine having to regrow an eye.
>>47206168
source?
>>47205843
It can't repair what's been lost. If your eye is floating in the river or your fingers have been eaten by a cat, you're not getting them back.
Additionally, waiting too long for magical healing interferes with the process, and very rarely it can make the muscle and bones knit wrong and cause pain and crippling. Thus you really do need some magical triage.
>>47206607
>>47206754
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>>47205843
It requires very powerful healing magic to restore lost limbs and fix scars
People who think magic is for weak people.
It is cost prohibitive.
>>47205843
You have one post to justify dying of HIV when modern medicine exists.
The gods have decreed that all must be held accountable for their decisions.
You take a random arrow to the eye for literally no reason? Just walking down the street and some adventurer's crossbow pistol went wide left to your peeper? No sweat, just get a cleric on that shit, you didn't do anything wrong.
You go off to war and catch a sword across your nose? Welp, you knew what you were getting into, and I hear masks are coming back in fashion.
>>47205892
But wait - if you were stabbed, you might have gotten some organs cut too. And what about if you got hit with a crude arrow, and some metal fragments stayed in the wound?
>>47205843
Healing magic only accelerates the bodies natural healing ability to super speed, so anything the body can't heal on it own, i.e. regenerating limbs, cannot be accomplished via magic healing.
>>47207211
then you pray to all known gods of luck and medicine that the fragments are not harming the organ too much or that you can take them out without harming the organ too much
>>47205843
Magic is dangerous and not used lightly, and the kind of magic to replace entirely destroyed body parts especially so. Furthermore, magisters are rare, oppressed, and exclusive in who they treat with.
(Warhammer Fantasy)
>>47205843
He's got the legendary sharingan.
>>47205843
Chicks dig scars
My war cleric lost an eye, back before he was a cleric
he didn't receive medical attention for hours, and as a grunt in an army, didn't get any sort of awesome cleric healing.
also you can just say that they chose to keep it, as a reminder of a failing or something
>>47205843
Healing magic can't repair severed limbs, crippling injuries and missing eyes.
The most powerful mages in my setting average around level 8 or so. The magic simply isn't available.
>>47206785
Holy fuck that's fucking weird man
>>47205843
Powerful magic weapons causing the injury
Magic can't replace lost body parts after a certain amount of time
Other stuff
>>47205843
It's a magical eyepatch. Wearing it grants the other eye enhanced eyesight, and other miscellaneous effects. The only reason they aren't wearing magical glasses instead isrule of cool.
Hard motherfuckers don't want to waste the mage's time or effort on the battlefield when they know they can survive without the eye/limb.
Magic has a cost. Strong magic has a high cost.
>>47205843
Well it is extremely expensive.
You could say, it costs an ARM AND A LEG.
But no in my own D&D setting healing magic, besides not PERFECTLY healing wounds (i.e it's basically just hyper-accelerated healing factor effect, leaving natural scarring) it's also a matter of time delay. The longer a lopped off hand is left the less healing effect the magic will have. Also I always liked the idea of actually needing to have the severed limb with you to reattach.
All healing magic does is soup up your natural healing to god like levels for a few brief seconds. and since your natural healing cannot fix missing limbs or eyes, and could have a crippling injury for life, there you have it.
>>47205843
It's silly. If you can afford, you can never die. And if you do, jesus fucking christ, you'll come back.
In fact, the entire D&D setting is based on ressurecting characters when they die, so you dont need to be all moody about "muh hero".
And since we all play D&D, because we are /tg/, your post is bananas.
Here, take a free .gif.
>>47205843
hexed/cursed so that it can't be healed. (demoman)
the prosthetic is more useful than the original, or at least just as useful but in different ways that they got too used to to give up (for instance, Mad Eye Moody would probably be a good example)
the stump healed up, so now there's no wound to grow the limb in (though I suppose you could always just amputate the stump even further up, then do it).
also, pirates wore eyepatches, not to cover blind eyes, but so that one eye would be adjusted to the dark inside of a ship for boarding, while the other would be adjusted to the brightness above deck. So mundane eyepatches have a use even in non-magical realities when used creatively enough.
Regeneration is a high level spell in DnD/Pathfinder and not everyone can afford it or find a guy to cast it.
>>47207211
Organs will heal even if badly damaged, but the thing is that in real life you tend to die of infection or bloodloss or whatever before it can heal.
Metal fragments could be a thing but those are a thing even in modern medicine. People do tend to have bullets in them for decades.
>>47206256
Helloooo Dark Souls
>>47207211
I'd see it being that healers would need to practice some techniques to remove shrapnel and prep for the regenerative magic
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OP here. Really I just wanted my character to look like David Bowie/ Mad Max but my GM pointed out that usually healing magic can fix eyes just fine
>>47208620
Make up a reason that the character refues to get it fixed. Like he got a bunch of friends killed and himself maimed by doing something really stupid in his past. He keeps the fucked up eye as a reminder to not repeat those mistakes.
>>47205859
/thread
>>47205843
Do you know how expensive Regenerate is!?
>>47205843
Trump
>>47205843
Magical injuries.
>>47205843
Healing magic doesn't reverse fibrosis and can't reattach body parts that are too badly traumatized or have been disconnected for too long
>>47205843
Healing magic is an acceleration of natural healing. It'll close cuts, mend bonds and repair organs, but it can't regrow something that's missing.
If I remember right from the comics, Fury in the original explanation (pre- Samuel L Fury) explained while he could get a cybernetic eye he'd rather keep the eyepatch to remind himself of his own mistakes.
>>47205876
preferably a combination of those.
>>47205843
Either because someone couldn't afford the services to heal wounded appendages and such, or they simply keep the wounds as a reminder of sorts.
Perhaps they got too cocky and paid for it, with that part serving as a constant reminder. Perhaps they were too weak at the time to do anything, and they keep it around to remind them of what they lost. Maybe they lowered their guard for one, just ONE singular moment, and paid the price for not keeping vigilance.
As >>47205919 said, it's more or less a personal choice.
>>47205843
because is healing magic, not regenaration magic
>>47205843
Automail is awesome.
>>47205843
It's somehow become tied in with their fighting style
>>47210432
I can now see with a thousand eyes?
>>47205843
>Guy with debilitation hates healers or healing magic because (insert reason here)
Guy has certain religious reasons for not healing particular injuries
>Mah Honor
>Mah proof of surviving (insert battle here)
>Not enough coin to get healed
>Not enough healing magic to go around (which is part of my specific setting)
>>47210413
And yet your setting is full of faggotry
>>47205843
There are those who refuse the touch of healing magic, preferring to survive on manmade devices rather than beg the gods to heal every scratch like a mewling child.
And in the end, is that not what the gods would want? Mortals capable of caring for themselves?
>>47206170
>be a commoner
>disemboweled by housecat
>ascend to your reward in heaven/elysium/whatever because you were always a good commoner tending to your crops or whatever it is the bloody help does
>literally in paradise
>some lantern archon floats up to you and asks if you'd like to go back to your previous existence of sleeping in a flea infested straw bed and shoveling horseshit or if you'd like another champagne bath before the running of the whores
Tough choice.
Religious or cultural reasons.
>>47208620
I had the opposite problem. I had a player throw a fit because apparently a level 2 cleric casting cure light wounds on an NPC who had been tortured for days by goblins, including blinding, toes chopped off and finger nails pulled out, was still unconscious after being brought to 1hp rather than prancing about and singing.
>>47207211
Organs heal bro.
The trick is lasting long enough for them to heal.
>>47211044
I'll take the former. Harvest season is coming up, and I'm the only one who can do it right. See you in 50 years.
>>47208620
Tell him that he's retarded because he is, regenerative magic shouldn't be commonplace, it makes a playground out of your setting, what is the point of avoiding the dangers of a dungeon if you can just get your healslut to grow you a new leg?
>>47205843
Healing magic might be faster or more efficient than real life medicine, but it still has limitations. A limb cannot simply be regrown, an eye can't just be replaced, it is possible, perhaps, if the healer is on hand, or steps are taken to delay the body healing the wound naturally and thus interfering with the magic, but these are rarely guaranteed in situations where flesh, blood, bone, and sinew are rent and mangled.
>>47205843
Being healed through magic works by reverting your body to a time before you received the injury, thereby causing you to lose memory of everything after your injury.
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>>47205843
>You have one post to justify severed limbs, crippling injuries and eyepatches in a setting with healing magic
If you don't do it in a calm & controlled setting mistakes can happen.
Interesting and debilitating mistakes.
>>47211326
Okay, what the fuck.
>>47205843
Some healing magic isn't strong enough to cure the wounds if it is also done magically
Some curses prevent magical healing
It costs a shit ton
There is an associated spiritual cost
People are superstitious and think magic is performed by fuckers wearing penguin boots in spider underwear that vomit technicolor bullshit
Because wizrds don't like them
Because they bullied the cleric too much and they told other clerics that healing them will cause the clap
Good healing that can actually do as such or bring the dead back to life is hard to find and plebes can't afford it often
Side effects of Cleric brand Magic Heal include: impotence, anal seepage, leprosy, leopardsy, headaches, nausea, diziness, vomiting blood, blood in stool, stool in blood, warts, frogs, dysentary, liver failure, autism, thought projection and sapient chin disease. Do not undergo Magic Heal if you drink, eat meat, or enjoy sexual activity. Hey you need that fucking hand! Magic heal. By Cleric Brand.
>>47205843
>I'm sorry. I tried to fix what I could. But thaumaturgy can only do so much, and the other half of his arm was pretty torn up to start with...
>>47205843
Because I don't want to forget what happened.
Maybe I made a mistake that my family paid dearly for. Maybe I was betrayed by those I trusted.
You shouldn't look at the scars and ask why they are still there.
You should look at the scars and ask why I'm still here.
Sailors with both eyes wore eyepatches to help their eyes adjust to dim light faster by switching which eye the patch is on when going below deck.
>>47205843
>current year
>relying on filthy witchcraft
>>47205843
You have one post to justify starvation, child labor, living in a hut or a scrap board shack and dying from preventable diseases in a setting where I can post on 4 chan while taking a shit share 8 rooms and a roof terrace with a cat and have free healthcare.
Maybe magic is rare or unevenly distributed you dumb shit.
>>47205843
Poverty and elitism.
>>47209006
>i've captains without depth perception
>cos i'm a little bitch like dat
This sure is a great comic ...
>>47205843
>why
Cos chicks dig scars. Duh.
>>47213323
He's evil, you know.
It only speeds up the body's natural healing process, it cannot regenerate what is totally removed.
>>47205843
Socilalized Medicine is considered a great evil.
There is some factor that dictates whether magical healing leaves a scar or not, and it's completely arbitrary. An example would be if one who commits evil suffers for it the healing of those wounds still scar, or scar even worse than natural healing. Or even better, when healing is divinely given then that particular god's judgment of you colors how you heal. The god of light only truly heals those with virtue, while the god of war prefers to cleanly heal wounds gained in glorious battle and will leave a terrible scar if it was caused through trickery or cowardice.
>>47213387
evil =/= stupid
>>47205843
Healing magic is limited to regenerating damaged tissue. Attempting to heal dead tissue can have all sorts of nasty side effects. Basically if you're healed immediately after your injury there's a good chance that you'll recover perfectly and without any blemishes. The Longer you wait, the less likely it is that a healer will be able to fully restore the damage.
They know restoration but don't know shit about cleaning, dressing or prepping wounds so they don't leave a nasty scar. Fucking duh.
You put a bandage on something, keep it clean and take care of it the scar is gonna be small. You let something heal on its own, in the open or sloppily then it leaves a scar.
Also depends on the wound, but whatever
>>47205843
That shit's expensive. The time of the caster and the components are bullshit expensive in almost every edition of DnD or Pathfinder, and most other games I've seen too.
>>47205843
it just speeds up the natural healing process. you may regenerate a hydra's bodypart with magic , but it only wirks because the potential for regeneration is already there.
restoring limbs on the other hand would be possible , but it requires lots of knowledge on how genetics work. magical eye implants and prosthetics are the easier option.
also , healing magic in our setting is so underpowered , it is done mostly to prevent bloodloss and infections through cuts.
>>47207409
>Sharingan
>Legendary
Dude, by the end of the show everybody and their dogs had the Sharingan
>>47213323
Depth perception isn't really that important for a general. He mainly needs to look at maps, issue orders and occasionally cast a spell.
>>47205843
>You have one post to justify severed limbs, crippling injuries and eyepatches in a setting with healing magic
In GURPS? Someone critically failed the spell roll, and the spell is One Try.
>>47205843
Two words:
Weaponized limbs
>>47205843
You can't afford the treatment.
Healing can only mend wounds, not regenerate lost limbs.
It was an injury caused by magic that can't be reversed.
>>47205843
Fees out of the reach of the average person, or other requirements, such as converting to the healer's god, that make it impossible.
>>47205843
>"I figured once a piece of me gets shot off, I don't really want it back anymore."
>>47205843
There are some wounds you don't want to forget.
>>47211044
Mr. Scruffy leaves no man alive, he couldnt return if he tried
>>47205843
You have one post to justify children dying of easily preventable diseases in a world with modern medicine.
>>47217358
Distribution problems, both of wealth and of the medicine itself.
>>47205843
>restoring my lost hand would cost 45gp but I only make 3sp a week, so I never got it healed.
>used to it at this point, really
>>47205843
Healing magic is just accelerated healing. So if you don't have the ability to regenerate parts, you won't be regenerating anything lost, like your eye or hand. It'll just scar up. Now regeneration magic however, that's expensive and hard to come by.
>>47205843
Healing spells are like magical acupuncture, they open up "nodes" in your body that accelerate healing in a particular area. The nodes can't heal somthing that isn't there, however, and doing the technique improperly can cause tumor-like growths.
>Gruumsh has one eye so I have one eye
>>47205843
The eyepatch is for personel on ships who have to rush between the surface and dark lower deck. By keeping one eye covered it remains adjusted to the dark to avoid tripping
>>47205843
Magic can't cure all injuries
>>47205991
Underrated post
