Apropos of Nothing: Recovery from crippling injury

Apropos of Nothing: Recovery from crippling injury

So, it’s two weeks post-op. The procedure apparently went as well as it could go, I guess – information hasn’t been terribly forthcoming. They put in five surgical stainless screws (the phrase “living tissue over metal endoskeleton?” Yeah, it’s come up.) to affix the broken pieces of the calcaneus (heel bone) back together. Key questions…

Retreat, Better Defenses, and Evaluate
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Retreat, Better Defenses, and Evaluate

+Peter V. Dell’Orto has an interesting note today about the challenges of the Retreat defensive option when using mapless combat. It’s worth a read. I was intrigued by the option of just always giving people the benefit of increased defenses, the +1 for retreating for a parry/block, or the +3 for Dodge (or parry when using Karate, Judo,…

Castle of Horrors: Running away is Cardio!
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Castle of Horrors: Running away is Cardio!

We started in a basement, and exploration revealed some sort of stinky ooze. We tried to set it on fire with magic napalm. It sorta ran away, but we realized that we’d cleared a path for it to follow. We ran away, looking for trade goods in the form of napalm. We cleared out a…