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One fathom.

What part of "Contrary, rebellious Yank" are you having difficulty with?  If we had any interest in doing the same things everyone else does we'd still be part of Britain's terrible Commonwealth.

Seriously though, metric can die in a hole, it is in no way better than Imperial, everyone just complains because we don't do it their way.

So, I'm not sure exactly how I want to handle this, considering how the last time it blew up a bit.

I sort of feel the above conversation is a bit outside of the thread's scope, and while it isn't version comparison or anything else I've straight up said isn't okay, I feel like it might be skirting that same territory of inflammatory things that are only tangentially related to PnP games.

If people are generally okay and don't make big multi-page discussions I'll just back down on these kinds of things, but I just wanted to try to let you guys know how I feel about these sort-of-PnP-but-not-really things.

Please, no one jump down anyone's throat, I'm only trying to feel out where the line between too harsh and just enough is.  And maybe my definition of tangentially related is wrong here, so let me know where you think this stands.

When you reclaim a fortress all of the items that existed on the map when you abandoned are scattered.  This includes items from down in the caverns, even unexplored portions.  It's a bit buggy and is still very much a work in progress.  It is also possible that any hostile units that were there when you abandoned are still present, but that isn't an absolute.

The only requirement for removal of a limb is that it suffers cutting damage, this depends on what settings you are using in the options menu but generally what happens is that a limb is reduced well below zero and then takes cutting damage and is removed.  Almost every weapon deals part of its damage as cutting.  So you are half right, blunt damage can't de-limb people, but since there are basically no weapons that deal only blunt damage, there is a chance for limb loss whenever you have a crippled limb.

I'm half tempted to believe that the nameless poster who keeps responding to A Spectator is a sockpuppet being used to drive the tension even further.  At the least I'd ready a warning for A Spectator for the blatant spamming (but I'm not a mod and I wouldn't really want to be one).

I think that may be part of it, but there's also something with the composition of the page that seems a bit strange, it is very distracting to me and I just am really unclear on why.

I really like the way Abaddon played the double bait and switch here tho', it was a very cute way to play with reader expectations and I think it fit very well narratively and thematically.