(07-03-2012, 09:50 PM)requiem225 Wrote: [ -> ]For example:
What is the extent of what it can heal?
Can it heal scar tissue or just current wounds?
What is the difference of what Holy magic can do vs. Druidic magic?
among other things.
As Reigen said, people's mileage varies. But here's the way I treat it:
1. Any extent. Limbs can be restored, bones mended, people resurrected from the dead.
2. It can heal scar tissue and magical wounds. But not in the case where the wound/scar was caused by magic that did something to change the nature of the skin there - for instance, if a character was injected with Fel, the Light wouldn't be able to cure the wound/pox/boils/scaly skin/whatever formed at the injection site. Similarly let's say that the Character was exposed to a large amount of Arcane, enough to warp one of their arms. It can't be healed through magic, because it -is- magic.
3.Divine Magic(Holy & Shadow), I have always treated as simply doing the job it's meant to do. Heal. Like a minor miracle, divine healing happens nigh on instantaneously, bones are mended, limbs restored, tissue seals, etc, right before your very eyes.
Druidic and Shamanistic magic on the other hand, I treat as rapid regeneration. Rather than the healing coming from some sort of outside source, the body is invigorated and goes extremely quickly and thoroughly through the process of natural healing, cells dividing, bone mending, and even to normally impossible feats, such as the re-growth of a limb.
Arcane Healing(Evocation + Glyph or Runemaster healing), I treat as the literal conjuration of flesh/bone/sinew/limbs, or the resuscitation of a body by willing it to life, as the Arcanist imposes their will on the universe.
Unholy Healing(Death Knight Death Coils, Necromancer Death Coils), I treat quite similarly to Arcane healz.
Fel Healing(Fel Healthstones, Fel Armor, etc. and the like), I treat as drawing on demonic magic, via either warping a bit of their body to a demonic aspect(as in Fel Armor) thus giving themselves preternatural regeneration, or consuming a minor demonic artifact, and using its energy to spur on natural healing(Consuming a Healthstone).
Potions work fine too, although their effect is not instant. Also, since Undead don't have a metabolism, I have them rub the potion onto the afflicted bodypart for it to actually work.
The effect is the same, mostly. The means are different.