Ideas for [very]low-magic healing

[Lord Zentei]

Normal healing is still pretty potent compared with the real world, particularly with the Long Term Care application of the Healing skill.

Regardless, you could possibly:

• Allow Healing as a class skill for most if not all classes.
• Allow the hit points recovered from Long Term Care be tripled rather than doubled on a DC:20
• Potions can provide +1 hit point per level of the recipient as though from a full nights rest in addition to the Xd8 hp normally recovered.

I highly recommend the Vitality and Wound system for this. It makes characters tougher at low levels, still vulnerable at higher levels, and increases regeneration of "normal" damage to 1/character level/hour. A day's rest will fix normal injuries, but heavy combat could leave a party bedridden for at least a few days at lower levels.

Vitality and Wounds is pretty good; though it can easily be a game spoiler to suffer a powerful Critical Hit. Another option is the modified Star Wars system that has wound categories with gradually accumulating penalties to all rolls as the character becomes damaged.