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Healing is a mental exotic advantage that grants the ability to heal others, recovering their HP or ridding them of disease.

healing FP instead of HP[]

Vicky molokh quotes Kromm in http://forums.sjgames.com/showpost.php?p=419307

You can come close simply by taking Healing, allowing one of the FP-healing modifiers for Regeneration (Heals FP Only -0% or Heals FP +100%), and simply ruling that the rate is 1:1 because 2:1 would be abusive.

PK in 2016 at http://forums.sjgames.com/showthread.php?p=2038432#post2038432

We've allowed "Heals Fatigue Only (-0%)" as a modifier for Healing, but with a few changes and caveats. First, the healing becomes 1-for-1; essentially, this transfers your FP to the target. Second, this doesn't work with Reduced Fatigue Cost. Third, the GM needs to vet any other modifiers or synergies carefully, as this is a perfectly reasonable ability on its own, but it is possible to get a relatively cheap "infinite spellcasting" loop going here.

Special Enhancements[]

Special Limitations[]

Powers Built From Healing[]

New modifiers in P51 including Affects Self ie Heal Self variation although there isn't any Self Only version

  • Healing Drug [30]: Healing (Affects Self, +50%; Based on HT, +20%; Blood Agent, -40%; Injuries Only, -20%; Onset, 1 minute, -10%)
  • Laying On Hands [20]: Healing (Capped, 6 FP, -15%; Faith Healing, +20%; Limited Use, 1/day, -40%)
  • Rejuvenation [138]: Healing (Capped, 10 FP, -5%; Cure Affliction, +60%; Reduced Fatigue Cost 10, +200%; Reliable +5, +25%; Xenohealing, Anything Alive, +80%)
  • Universal Antibodies: Healing (Affects Self, +50%; Based on HT, +20%; Blood Agent, -40%; Disease Only, -40%; Onset, 1 hour, -20%; Reliable +6, +30%) [30].

Both, after swapping the IQ roll with a HT roll, allow the recipient to make the roll and spend the FP instead of the user. This isn't stated under the modifiers.

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FAQ[]

http://www.sjgames.com/gurps/faq/FAQ4-5.html#SS5.1.3

5.1.3. How do I build the ability to transfer FP from myself to others?

You can come close simply by taking Healing, allowing one of the FP-healing modifiers for Regeneration (Heals FP Only -0% or Heals FP +100%), and simply ruling that the rate is 1:1 because 2:1 would be abusive.

GURPS Psionic Powers[]

page 47 uses Contact Agent as a modifier on it

GURPS Thaumatology[]

Thaumatology - Sorcery page 17

"Note: The 4 HP of healing has been converted to dice per p. B269."

Divine Favor[]

page 15 of GURPS Powers: Divine Favor has "Lay on Hands (Enhanced)" which has interesting modifiers which are informative in designing abilities.

"Can only spend 5 FP when healing injuries, -5%;" is similar to Capped, but that is normally worth -5% for being limited to 10 FP. This falls in the range of "-20% for 4 FP, -15% for 6 FP," but is like applying the -20% "injuries only" limitation from B59 to the limitation, functioning as a Limited Limitations.

  • To get "capped on injuries" you would probably take capped and then take a "not capped" enhancement with the Disease Only limitation of -40%. This results in it being a -60% mitigator. -5% is 40% (2/5) of 7.5% so this seems odd.


More traditional Limited Enhancements are "Reduced Fatigue Cost 5, Disease Only, +60%" and "Reliable 8, Only to offset disease penalties, +20%". Normally RFC 5 costs +100% and Reliable 8 costs +40%. Applying the -40% "disease only" turns 100 into 60, it should have changed 40 into 24, not 20, so that is possible a typo.

Statements[]

from Kromm[]

in 2011 http://forums.sjgames.com/showpost.php?p=1254800&postcount=5

I'd build this as: Healing (Emergencies Only, -30%; Empathic, -50%; Faith Healing, +20%; Injuries Only, -20%; Limited Use, 1/day, -40%; Ranged, +40%; Reflexive, +40%) [18]

from PK[]

in 2009[]

April 23 http://forums.sjgames.com/showpost.php?p=778887&postcount=7

Healing is an exception -- AFAIK, adding Ranged does turn it into a Healing Ray. This makes sense, since it's not a contested thing, and healing rays have a fair amount of fictional precedent.
That said, it wouldn't be visible unless you added Visible, so I don't think there's really a big difference between, "I roll IQ to target him, minus range modifiers, but he won't dodge because he wants this. If successful, my ray hits him and he's healed," and, "I roll IQ like a malediction, but he won't resist because he wants this. If successful, my power works and he's healed."
So calling it a malediction instead of a ray is pretty much a special effect. You lose the ability to aim, but gain the ability to heal through walls and windows and such. Fair trade.

April 24 http://forums.sjgames.com/showpost.php?p=779176&postcount=14

HEALING RAY: Two rolls. Speed/Range penalties. Can Aim. Can Move and Attack or All-Out Attack. Fixed max range.
HEALING SPELL: One roll. Range penalties. Can All-Out Concentrate (much worse than All-Out Attack, esp re: movement).
Otherwise, both are invisible and ignore DR. The ray takes Size modifiers, but that's a good thing as often as a bad thing.
Hmm. It does seem that the malediction has a small net advantage over the ray. Maybe a custom +20% enhancement (similar in strength to Based On ) would be more fair than making it a +0% special effect?

in 2011[]

background, porkell in 2008 http://forums.sjgames.com/showpost.php?p=706937&postcount=22

Can't be worked around? How about "Screw that -3 penalty (Cosmic +300%)"?

Tsuru-Sennin replied:

I'd call that a +50% Cosmic myself.

http://forums.sjgames.com/showpost.php?p=1268611&postcount=8

JCurwen3:

Healing has a built-in limitation, that you get a cumulative -3 penalty per successful use that lasts for a day after the last use.
How do you get rid of it? Cosmic, No cumulative penalty, +50%?


PK:

Yes. By way of comparison, note that this costs the same as Reliable 10, an enhancement which not only removes the penalty, but gives a net bonus for your first three uses -- but then quickly ceases to stop your activation rolls from sliding into Penalty Hell. Using Cosmic instead to remove that one drawback means that you never get a net bonus, but you can heal one person all day long without special penalties.

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