Unlike Regeneration, Empathic Healing allows characters to improve the healing rate for wounds which they or other characters may have taken. Basic Success lowers a wound’s healing time by one day, and each additional stage of success further lowers that time by another day (to a minimum time of one hour).

To heal oneself, an Empathic healer need merely make a task roll against the Empathic Healing skill. In order to heal another character, the empath must first establish a empathic link by use of a Human Empathy/Telempathy task. The stage of success of this Human Empathy/Telempathy task then becomes the maximum success stage that can be used in the following Empathic Healing test.

For example, suppose that Crayson, who has EMP 6 Telepathy (Telempathy) 6, and Empathic Healing 5, is trying to treat three wounds on Winfield Jackson, who has an INT of 6 and Willpower of 4. The surroundings are normal stress (combat is over, but the situation is still distracting), so all Empathic tasks are Difficult. Crayson succeeds at his Telempathy task (target number 12, rolls an 8), and rolls a 9 on 1D10 for a final power level of (6+6+9-6-4=11), a Stage Two success. On his first Empathic Healing test, he succeeds and rolls a 9 on 1D10, just barely scoring a Stage Two success (6+5+9-6-4=10). Rolling for the second wound, he fails the skill test, but not Catastrophically (target number 11, rolls 13). For the final wound, he scores an Outstanding Success (target number 11, rolls 1), followed by a roll of 9 on 1D10, for a Stage Three success (6+5+9-6-4=10, 10×2=20). The first wound's time improves by two days (one day for Basic Success, plus one day for the additional success level). The second does not improve at all, because he failed his Empathic Healing roll.  The third also improves by two days, despite the Outstanding Success at healing, because the success is limited by the Stage Two success scored for the telempathic link.

Note that only one Empathic Healing test can be performed for each wound, whether or not it was ultimately successful.