Reposted by Charlie
an excellent and thoughtful essay here that mirrors a lot of the points i was trying to make yesterday. sharing the archived version because the website appears to be down at the moment.
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What Do We Do With Jacob Geller? - Epilogue Gaming
Earlier this week, a friend noticed Jacob Geller’s book, How A Game Lives, sitting amongst my living room shelves. Under almost any other circumstances, this would have been an exciting invitation for...
![Death
When you reach 0 hp, you may choose to die or roll on the following table.
Dismemberment. You take a grievous wound and fall unconscious. After a turn, you awake with 1 hp and learn that you've lost your 1. eye, 2. hand, 3. leg below the knee. You must retreat from the dungeon as soon as possible. You must rest for a week before adventuring again.
Taken. The monsters [take you prisoner/swallow you] and retreat. You may be [rescued/regurgitated] and restored to 1 hp.
Wounded. You take a wound and fall unconscious. After a turn, you awake with 1 hp. You must retreat from the dungeon as soon as possible. You must rest for a week before adventuring again.
Sacrifice. Your squire/henchman steps in front of the last blow and falls to 0 hp instead of you. They are taken out of the fight, and must recover in a stronghold before adventuring again.
If no squire/henchman, you will die in 1 turn if you receive no healing.
Weak. You are conscious, but weak. You can crawl and whisper, but not perform any tasks that require a roll. At the end of the combat, you regain 1 hp.
Last chance. You are conscious, but weak. If you lay still, you regain 1 hp at the end of combat. If you take any actions, treat them as having rolled a natural 20, but you will die at the end of the round.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3iexcc3zgy47y45ub47gurhu/bafkreihs4qen3yit67cmob3p7q4ziooodh3l6jpglxnpjuazdvucoiaq6y)
![Variously capitalized text spread in bafflingly short lines on an ancient web page. It is dark blue over a grid paper esque background. It reads:
FREE SPEECH in AMERICA is
"BULL SHIT",
EVIL EDUCATORS
block and suppress
www.timecube.com.
You are educated evil,
and might have to kill
the evil ONE teaching
educators before you
can learn that 4 corner
days actually exist -but
all Cube Truth denied.
Dumb ass educators fear
me and hide from debate.
[sic. Yes. Really. Exactly that text in that format with that punctuation and capitalization.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nfvob2osu2nz46jqmkg4uviq/bafkreifg34nvoixdixi2k2nuqcstvn2fxbofuzgp2jsikp7hqayfjmbina)
