avoiding the penalties for being wounded

[Furion_Transsanus]

@Berengar

Ravenscroft's position is further supported by the Creo Corpus Guidelines, ArM5 p.130:
"Unless otherwise noted, a healing spell cast other than as a Momentary duration ritual actually suspends the healing process, so that upon the spell's expiration, wounds are as fresh as they were when the spell was cast."

I concede to your argument. I knew it was a bit far fetched, but as I said I'd like this thread to at least question the idea. And that has been succesfull.

I would however still in accordance with me first argument, that a season of lab work can be cooked down to 12 hrs of painless effort, have this solution influence the lab work. Fruny's proposal of a risk modifier seems very reasonable in that regard. I do agree that interesting stories could made from this and I would surely jump right in, but I also think that there should be tangtible trade-offs if this is used simply to munchkin.

[Berengar]

@marklawford

Yes, there is indeed to option of warping and such to consider. So long as there is so trade off where the character/player says "yes, I know there's a cost to getting snotted by the gribbly, I'd just rather pay this cost rather than that".

There is quite some cost involved with this device:
The CrCo 40 (R:Touch, D:Sun) spell to temporarily heal the Heavy Wound of our hapless magus must first be invented as a special version (ArM5 p. 168) for that specific magus, or would at every casting bestow a further warping point upon the recipient.
So this device is not something a single magus can just come up with after receiving the Heavy Wound and then finding out how it hampers his lab activities. It rather requires forethought, some do-ut-des among sodales and a few seasons time to implement before it can be used.
And it probably will involve an implicit promise that the recipient will afterwards volunteer every time a magus battering ram is needed by the covenant.

Kind regards,

Berengar

[angafea]

@Fruny

The magus would quikly begin dreading sunsets and the periodic return of pain. If he is casting the spell on himself (if he even can!), I might require a personality check to see if he can resist the temptation of recasting it to tide him overnight.

The lost sleep and the distraction as every sunset approach would justify maybe not a lab total penalty, but an experimental risk factor.

Great idea! Nothing beats good story solutions!

[Furion_Transsanus]

@Berengar

There is quite some cost involved with this device:
The CrCo 40 (R:Touch, D:Sun) spell to temporarily heal the Heavy Wound of our hapless magus must first be invented as a special version (ArM5 p. 168) for that specific magus, or would at every casting bestow a further warping point upon the recipient.
So this device is not something a single magus can just come up with after receiving the Heavy Wound and then finding out how it hampers his lab activities. It rather requires forethought, some do-ut-des among sodales and a few seasons time to implement before it can be used.
And it probably will involve an implicit promise that the recipient will afterwards volunteer every time a magus battering ram is needed by the covenant.

Great! This good argument is winning me over a bit. Now there is trouble and pay-offs - especially the kinds that give birth to stories. This is turning to the kind of roleplay i prefer, and it is moving away from being a simple rule mechanic abuse (though I concur that if used in term of a story and not just downtime the picture of the nightly sufferings of a magus to work healthily at day is interesting). I would still think of some kind of mild, or interesting, risk modifier as suggested by Fruny because I still think the magus' projects would be a bit more "interesting" due to his daily rutine being very lopsided.