Shattered Kingdoms

A burly orcish guard punches at your right leg, tearing your flesh and bone!
Your right leg is BROKEN!
You stab a burly orcish guard's chest, ripping open his stomach!
You slash a burly orcish guard's right arm, cutting muscle and bone!
You strike suddenly, stabbing at a burly orcish guard's chest! Some GUTS fall!

Your head is scratched.
Your chest is bleeding.
Your abdomen is bleeding.
Your left arm is scratched.
Your right arm is scratched.
Your right leg is bleeding heavily.

Isnt broken supposed to mean it was mangled and you would need someone to heal it?

I sometimes get mangled legs but, sometimes the healing tick heals it. Other times I need to get it healed, maybe its luck.

Maybe your character got hit so hard he was like "OMG it's broken!" but later he realised it was still usable. and that ti could maybe take another hit before he needed to have it healed.

You don't heal from a mangled leg unless you receive

a) a healing spell (heal, healing rays, cure light, etc)
b) a regeneration spell from either an NPC or a PC priest (or shaman)

However, occasionally a leg in SKs is broken, and your leg (or arm, for that matter) stays at 'bleeding heavily'. From there, your limb will heal naturally, as some broken bones do. Just count yourself lucky.

No, mangled body parts do sometimes heal up to full condition, although it's relatively rare...perhaps certain circumstances (e.g. newbie status or some weird [REDACTED] with a tick...). I have no idea why, however.

Once severed it takes a regen spell to get it back, but I beleive to have had mangled limbs regenerate as normal. The only one that I have found to not regen normally after mangled is your chest, at which you stop regenning hps until it is fixed via spell/herb/wand/scroll/stave.

As for "broken" limbs messages in combat, I believe that there is a chance that they go to mangled or severed, nothing more.

-/d

I have never recovered from a mangled wound. I think you've probably been hit by a healing spell and not noticed.

It's certainly not the norm.

When it says a limb is "broken", that may or not mean it's mangled. I've had a limb broken 3 times before it was actually "mangled".

Mangled limbs in theory should not regenerate naturally.

The only times i can think of when mangled limbs heal by themselves is when they're mangled on mode stun.

Well, I only bring it up becuase its happened alot. Could it have something to do with the char being a giant and haveing very high con that is saveing his leg from being mangled.

And yes, i've never seen anything mangled heal on its own but bards can sing them back straight (altho it takes a while)