[Nightshade]

Originally Posted by Atgxtg

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.

Well, it probably didn't hurt that throughout most of my gaming career, I've probably been one of the lowest budget people in my gaming group; if I could afford to buy the damned books, it wasn't going to make much sense for other people to balk.

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.

True. Modern transportation is a bit more forgiving in that regard. Its probably not a coincidence that the second most common place I've seen this be a real issue is post-holocaust games.

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."

Well, some of it was that. But in some cases (such as when I fell down a flight of steps and bruised the living hell out of my thigh when I was in my twenties) I was in all kinds of pain and at least some impairment; it just didn't immediately seem to fatigue me more.

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.

Had a really--amusing--version of one of those once. I got bit by a sidewinder while hiking, and just thought I'd poked myself with a sharp branch while working through some brush. Didn't realize the degree of the problem until I got home and noticed my bloody sock. I was also a little feverish, but just wrote that off to the heat (this was in Arizona). Good thing sidewinders don't carry a particularly big load of venom as pit vipers go, and that I seem to be a bit more tolerant to it than typical...