procyon

Yeah I've toyed with this diea before.  A simple tweak I used in Fantasy Hero was that for each point of body you are below max, you lose 1 max stun.  Until that body heals up, you just can't take as much punishment.  But in a really gritty, realistic setting stuff like this (and others such as roll mods for damage like -1 for every half body you sustain) are options that really crank up the believability.

I like the LTS idea.  We have used it once (sort of) in a short game I ran, and it worked pretty much like this.

The only difference was that each body would reduce max stun by 2.  This wasn't assessed until after a combat, so the 1 stun per body damage minimum rule wasn't an issue.

But the 'sore, bruised' issues that set in after the fact were what we were looking at.

As my little brother once told me,

"If you're fighting fair, you just don't want to win bad enough."

You obviously play with a more generous GM than I do.

Haven't asked him.  Doubt he would answer me anyway.

Well, off to stick a needle in another patient...

But really aren't we talking about human-scale intelligence in this thread?  Brain size isn't solely determinative of intelligence, but it does play a large part.  Crows can't develop larger brains because everything else about their design prevents it.  They're at a dead end as far as intelligence goes.  Problem solving skills?  Sure.  Simple tool use?  Sure.  But they can never develop more complex tools, because they don't have the ability to manipulate them.  They can't communicate complex ideas, because they don't have the vocal chords for it.  The changes necessary to make a crow have a higher intelligence would be so significant that it would likely decrease their ability to survive before they ever saw any benefit.

I think you are missing something.

You assume that humans are, and always have been, at this level of capability.  And that anything less - could never be.

You want to check on humanity, say, 200,000+ years ago - and see just how much better we were than crows?

Our level of tool use wasn't much better than what a crow is now.  In other words, we just took what we had around and made very small 'improvements' or harnessed existing 'occurences'.

Nothing that a crow isn't doing now.  And if nothing was around to prevent it - a million years might see it become a tool using and intelligent species.

Just like has been said, "keep banging the rocks together..."

Worked for us.

I am willing to use needles to sew ... restore a button, repair a seam ... but the convey-fluids-through-organism-boundaries thing ... nope. Don't like it done to me, and at DEX 6 I know I don't want to think about me doing to something else.

Don't worry.  It's an Int based skill. It will be fine...

I don't mind needles.

So long as they are in my hand, and poking holes in someone else...

I look at it that way.

Taking care of the babies is just what I do while I drink coffee.

All of us that work 12 hours overnight.

One cup ?

Amateur.

That's 5.

Well, SKJAM, if you want to decide the next team - you're on deck. I'd give you till midnight on the 24th (a bit over 48 hours) - unless there is some other protocol...\

If not, it's all yours Legatus.

A sure sign you have run more than a couple games with a player.

From the last session with the oldest daughter.

"Yah, yah, yah.  Get to the important part."

If I am not working, I'm up at 0430 for chores, and by 0530 I am out running my 2 miles with the youngest girl and 14 y/o boy (he usually tags another mile or so to the end now as he is trying to get ready for football practices to start).

Our day shift works 0700-1500(-ish); evening shift works 1330-2200 (mostly); and the night shift works 2100-0700.

 

I've worked night shift a couple of times -- it's not for me, I get jet lagged.

 That is pretty much our shifts, other than the fact Peds is straight 12's from 7-7 and all weekends are 7-7.

I would rather work nights.  Period.

First, I am a bit of a nocturnal critter.  I have always loved to go fishing all night, or hunt raccoons till dawn.  I was also the one who sat in the hay loft all night long to shoot the coyotes and foxes that would get into the livestock.

And then in the work arena - I will never work days.  First off, I will never have enough seniority.  I didn't start off right out of school as a nurse, where most of the gals here did.  Second, far to many people who think they are important work days.  And I have a hard time keeping my mouth shut when they are doing something stupid.  So it's safer if I am not around them.

And I hate evenings (3p-11p).  Evenings means that I almost never see my wife or kids.  By the time they are getting back from school/work - I'm gone.  When I get home - they are asleep.  Nope, don't like that at all.

Working nights, I leave after they go to bed.  I get home in time to see the kids off on the bus and the wife as she leaves.  I and the dog sleep in a quiet house while everyone is gone.  And then I get up to get the kids off the bus and we spend the afternoon & evening together.  To me, that is the perfect schedule.

That, and the crew on nights tends to be more 'team players' than the day crew in our hospital.  That seems to be the nature of the beast most places I have worked.

From my wife during the session from last night.

A bit of background, she is in Miami following a hurricane assisting with rescue/relief efforts. (think Katrina like condition, with more wind damage & less flooding).

She can also add power to her End Reserve by absorbing electrical power - but most power lines are down so she has resorted to draining car batteries.

Wife/PC - "So how is it that I end up in a battle on the one street where all the cars are either trashed or on fire?"

Me/GM - "You remember that your attacks are what torched all the cars?"

Wife/PC - "If I wanted you to tell me why they were burning, I would have asked you to tell me.  I am telling you that it sucks."

Me/GM - "Ok, so what are you going to do for your next action?"

Wife/PC - "I know I am here to help the ambulance crew, but do you think they will pop their hood if I ask nicely?"

Not for me.  That's just the end of my shift to work.

It's always both at once until measured.

But once you define one quantity, you can never be sure of the other associated with it.

I must have defined all the unimportant ones.

At least my wife thinks so.  She says I am always wrong and clueless.

I'm thinking someone has forgotten the point of what a handgun is supposed to be for...

Spent a bunch of years in West Germany, courtesy of the Army.

Grandparents live in Stuttgart.

So I am not a native.

My mother, is.

So I asked her.

Legatus is correct on the spelling.

She says warrior woman, in the fem form would be kriegerin.

Says she doesn't remember seeing -maid in a word.

Maiden or girl is usually madchen, dirndl, or sometimes jungfer. 

She has lived stateside for several decades though.

To work in this field you have to start out a little cracked, and then the work does the rest.    *twitch*

Ok.

Your talking to a guy who works as (the only male) nurse taking care of little babies and their moms on a unit with 40 other women as the staff.

And you want to talk about starting as a bit 'cracked'...

Yeah, I resemble that statement.

Shield Maiden might also work - always protecting her boss against those do-gooders!

Umm...no.

Schildmadchen would be heard by most and assumed to be meant as schulmadchen.

Which means 'school girl'.

Not exactly what the old nazi would be hoping for.

Well, unless he has plans that have nothing to do with super powers.

Usually just 10T error.

Or PICNIC.

Always with the snickering and finger pointing.

Now I know that they are simply servants of demonic entities and the snickering is due to possession by spirits...

The only one I hear about is PEBKAC.

Usually accompanied by snickering and gestures in my general direction...

Kreigerfrau would be the literal way to translate it.

But pick whatever you like.

(shudder...)

Wow.

I always knew I felt more secure with paper charting and stubby pencils.

I never realized...

I think that depends on the quality of the eatery.

Ok, perhaps I should have put the next bit ot the conversation.

Me/GM - "Ok.  Where are you going to get your burritos?"  (fully expecting her to say that whatever local joint had them, or she needed to make a CK roll)

Daughter/Alley Cat -"My place.  I've always got them in the freezer. I'm baby sitting so its a microwave supper night."

From my youngest girl at the beginning of the last session.

Daughter/Alley Cat - "We aren't going there.  I'm supposed to keep Jack safe.  So we aren't going there."

Me/GM - "So what are you planning to do?"

Daughter/Alley Cat - "Chicken burritos.  They're safe."