Why need anyone ever suffer if there are healing spells? Well, the answer is that healing spells cannot do everything.

If you are damaged (or dead) and you are then magically healed to your maximum (or Resurrected), then you are returned to the state your body was in before the damage was taken. If you had a limp before you were healed, you still have a limp. If you were dying of old age, then you are still dying of old age. If you were pregnant, you are still pregnant.

How to explain limps, handicaps, and scars? Healing spells (or Resurrection) heals you up to the state you were in last before you took any recent damage. In other words, if your body healed normally after a battle (that is, without the aid of magic) and you ended up with scars, any future healing would not correct that old injury.

Body parts cannot be restored, regrown, or mended with “Cure” spells, potions, or elixirs, which only replenish lost Body Points. To restore a body part that has been Withered, Stunned, amputated, or broken requires a Restore spell, a Life spell, or a Resurrection.

Breaking or removing a body part requires at least three seconds. You do not have to do a “three count” but you must role-play the breaking to make it clear what you are doing.

A Cure Disease spell will only cure the game effect Disease. It will not cure cancer, get rid of athlete’s foot, or hide your bald spot. This gives some players fun role-playing frustrations of being sick: “You mean they can bring me back to life after dying but they can’t cure the common cold?!!”

Pregnancies IG are completely a role-playing issue controllable by the player involved. The most important thing is to follow all rules of good taste! Being pregnant IG will not change in any way any of the rules in this book. Using healing Skills to detect the existence of a pregnancy is also up to the player involved, although one should remember the limitations of medieval medicine. Healing Arts is not a magical Skill and cannot be used to determine an unborn child’s sex, Species, or heritage.

A doll used to represent an infant is considered a “personal possession” (if carried) in regard to the rules.