New Action: Omega-Level Healing

[wayne]

Here's one the game has been needing for a while.

OMEGA-LEVEL HEALING
Cost = Action Number + 7

Description
This is healing as used by Josh in the latest issues of New Mutants: healing so powerful as to repair at the molecular level.

As for the specifics, pretty much anything you can think of biologically that can be healed can be done with this power, short of resurrection (although yes, it can be used to restore someone who's only *clinically* dead--their heart and/or brain activity has stopped--but only within a few panels, at GM discretion.)

You may include one specialty per Action Number, and add a new specialty per increase in Action Number.

Specialties include, but are not limited to:

• Energy Restoration

[/b] (one stone per stone restored)
[/li][li]Regeneration[/b] (limbs, organs, etc.)
[/li][li]Health Recovery[/b] (three stones per white stone recovered)
[/li][li]Sustaining Life[/b] (if, say, target has no air)
[/li][li]Poison Removal[/b] (GM determines difficulty)
[/li][li]Cure Diseases[/b] (GM determines difficulty)
[/li][li]Reduce Effects of Aging[/b] (both appearance and long-term health effects)
[/li][li]Repair Genetic Damage/Alterations[/b] (yes, including from Genetic Engineering; GM determines difficulty)
[/li][li]Restore Brain Damage[/b] (but not Mental Damage; may include memories that were lost due to damage)
[/li][li]Fitness Enhancement[/b] (temporarily improve fitness, etc... improve Abilities of target up to 3 each by spending 1 stone per level increase per Ability per panel it's supposed to last)
[/li][li]Biological Compensation[/b] (to actually alter one's physiology to compete with a harsh/deadly environment. Is permanent, and has resistances in the dozens for simple changes. Subject to GM oversight, and limited to directly survival-oriented changes.)[/li][/ul]
Note that unlike simple Medical or Mutant Healing, there's no limit to the number of times you may use any aspect of the power within a day. (And, of course, no tools are needed.)

Options

• +3 to Cost Level to be able to heal mental damage as well (although, like Psychiatry, expect it to take a while.)

Comments
Every role-player knows how valuable healers can be. Here's your chance to finally make use of true healing potential. .

Rule for Action Box:

• Unlimited healing of targets, up to near-death
  
• list specialties

[sphynx]

** I realize this is a few months late.... but, since I have a possible player wanting to use this in a game, thought I should comment **

Very cool Action. However it is too expensive as-is, and offers some things that shouldn't be allowed.

Suggestion is to convert it to Options under Healing. Such as:

+2 No limit on the number of stones healed per day.
+1 Regenerate Lost Limbs
+1 Maintain Life (in situations where a person should die such as drowning)
+1 Cure Toxins and Diseases
+2 Heal Mental Damage

I don't think the following are appropriate.

Energy Restoration
Reduce Aging (although thematic, no applicable use. For Self it's more in-theme to take Immortality, for others, making unaging permanent enough to be effective doesn't fit into the game scheme.)
Genetic Alteration/Repair (Just take Genetic Engineering)
Fitness Enhancement (Nice idea, should be its own Action though)
Biological Compensation (I like this one, but it's too abuseable. I believe it's better to use Healing as a catalyst for spending White Stones (via challenges, etc) on new modifiers)

Allowing the Action to heal up to death is purely up to GM discretion anyhows, even for the normal Healing action, that shouldn't be anything new or highlighted in my opinion.

Sphynx