Such is the life of a hero that he is confronted by his own mortality on an almost daily basis. These confrontations often leave scars that shape and haunt the body and psyche of even the most stout of adventurers.

When an enemy rolls a critical hit that either causes a character to become bloodied, or strikes an already bloodied character, the character receives a Battle Wound. The effects of the Battle Wound should be based on the type of attack performed. The Battle Wound itself is temporary, requiring days or weeks to heal properly, and will always leave the character with a scar of some sort. This scar should have lasting effects on the character for the rest of his or her life. All effects of the Battle Wound and scar are determined by the DM and the Player at the time of the damage.

Another of my site designs has gone live today.

You can find it at seconline.info. There are still a few functionality improvements that I feel are necessary, but since the owner has asked me to make it live, I thought I’d go ahead and post it here.

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Here’s the transcript of the lesson I gave this past Wednesday night, October 19, 2011. Again, due to nerves I completely forgot to record it.

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Here’s a sample of my writing. This is the Hook I gave my players to help them get into the game a little bit better.

Douven Staul

I was in fifth grade when I began writing. This was about the same time that my sister gave me my first Xanth novel and I fell in love with fantasy novels in general. Almost immediately I took up writing my own. Each book I devoured spawned thousands of stories and images that swam in my head and begged to be told. I loved writing so much that every teacher I had encouraged me to develop my talent. I had some of my writings put into contests and I even have a book that I printed and hand bound still on the shelves (at least it should be) at my middle school library.

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