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Originally Posted by Nightshade
Well, no wonder then. Other than one specific player who's been chronically poor over his whole life, we pretty much took it as a given that once you played in a game for any length of time you were going to have at least the basic rules.
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I'm envious. Years ago, I had to twist arms to get most of my group to chip in $2 each to buy a new battle mat. Most people didn't buy the rules, and all this came up in the late 90s when I was claiming that CCGs were killing RPGs. I had one guy who LOVED Pendragon, When Chaosium stopped supported Pendragon to produced a CCG, and he asked why, I pointed out that had never bought a single book for Pendragon, yet had spent hundred of dollars on Magic cards.
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Originally Posted by Nightshade
You can run into issues with the gritty ones because they sometimes shade into commando games, so how much gear people could haul in those situations sometimes mattered, especially if the characters were freelance or quasi-freelance and thus controlled their own equipment load-outs.
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We are on the same page here. Every one in awhile in Bond, it would become important. Typically when we got to the "storming the bad guys fortress" part of an adventure. Lugging around a backpack full of C4 to blow down the steel doors tends to limit how many guns, grenades and other goodies you can take along. Still, it isn't as common as in fantansy RPGs where the players are usually carrying everything they own on their backs.
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Originally Posted by Nightshade
I wouldn't have argued regarding illness, but on the occasions when I've been injured, even in ongoing pain I didn't notice this problem (at least immediately; it can come up over time just because such things interfere with your ability to rest, but that's not an immediate effect). In fact, in my 20's, this sort of thing came up several times when I was hiking and would have thought I would have noticed it. But ancedotal evidence is the weakest kind, so...
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Yup. I've done that too. Often I was fine until I noticed the injury, and THEN it started to hurt. Sort of like "Oh crap, I'm injured. That should hurt. Wait, now it does."
Its that death spiral thingie. In the short term it takes something really nasty to take you out. If you are too stubborn or too stupid to notice or care, it makes you just that much tougher. That is why animals often fight on after being severely injured. They are just to dumb to lie down and die. People on the other hand see the injury go "Oh no, I'm dying" and give up. Sort of like Wyle E. Coyote in the old cartoons. Just don't look down.