Knaves, OOC

[Squid]

What would we roll to try to prevent Northland from bleeding out?

[Rex]

Luck is fickle for sure.

[Pulpatoon]

Oh, to clarify: not everyone gets attack and defense rolls. It's one or another. I may have muddied this point by jumping back and forth between both. Here's the breakdown:

Round 1, PC Turn: You guys attacked. This was modeled by you rolling attack rolls.
Round 1, Bandit's Turn: The bandit's attacked. Modeled by you rolling defense rolls.
Round 2, PC Turn: You guys attacked. You rolled attack rolls.
Round 2, Bandit's Turn: The bandit's attacked. This time, I rolled attack rolls for the bandits.
Round 3, PC Turn: You guys attacked. You rolled attack rolls.
Round 3, Bandit's Turn: The bandit's called for a truce.

[Pulpatoon]

What would we roll to try to prevent Northland from bleeding out?

Barring magic*, healing in Knave is not really a battleground maneuver:

After a meal and a full night’s rest, PCs regain lost hit points equal to a d8 plus their Constitution bonus. Resting at a safe haven restores all lost HP.

Running with the Knave assumption that your character's a generally competent, and given that you're not in combat at present, I'd say your efforts to stabilize her are automatically successful. In other circumstances, I might call for an Intelligence check.

*RAW, Knave doesn't have a healing spell on its spell list, but it allows for stealing spells from other sources. The lack of magical healing makes for a very different pace of game.

[Rex]

How healing is handled by different RPG's is in my opinion the thing that changes the feel most. From D&D 5E where it is super available and quickly dealt with to HarnMaster where it can take weeks to recover from a battle, it sets the tone for the system.

[Pulpatoon]

Exactly. Slow healing puts you in a much more resource-conscious frame of mind.

[tibbius]

Definitely agree.

The most dramatic moment I've had in a game recently was when my grifter got shot in the back (accidentally) by his android buddy in a game of 2400: inner system blues. It wasn't just a roll for how many hit points he lost, but a definite moment that we knew that it would be a long time or a lot of money before he got better.

[Rex]

I am traveling to visit family today through Friday late. I am not sure if I will be able to post while I am there so feel free to NPC my character. I will be back Saturday.

[GreyWolfVT]

I'm not going to post my first reaction is to say screw you, they aren't taking my weapons.... the balls on them. So much for a truce.

[Squid]

I'm not going to post my first reaction is to say screw you, they aren't taking my weapons.... the balls on them. So much for a truce.

Right! I was thinking the same thing.

[Squid]

They are the ones who called for a truce and they are trying to keep all the goods. We could try to negotiate and hopefully get something out of this. Maybe we could keep our weapons and a horse for getting Sara to safety? The angle being they managed to get away with the box, carriage, and a horse.

Not sure what's up with that newcomer who made the branch disappear? Mage of some kind?

[Pulpatoon]

I'll update this afternoon, so if you have an action you'd like your character to engage in, please post before then!