Also National Love Your Red Hair Day, which I can no longer celebrate, and for the Brits, National Gunpowder Day.
Traffic was terrible because people already forgot how to drive in the rain. Went to the office, found out it’s Coworker T’s penultimate day, ate some pickled daikon and coleslaw and crispy chicken guys, did some work. Got home and it was already entirely dark, because it’s hibernation season.
Read (manga): After God vol 5 (Sumi Eno): We find out a lot more (comparatively) about gods and their interactions, some of it exploitable by humans but none of it actually good.
Written (game design): 215:
As previously mentioned, I think the idea of getting separate Stun and
Body values from one effect roll and applying them individually against
defenses so that heroes can get knocked out without taking much if any
Body is pretty slick. However, in Hero, Body track is half or less of
Stun, which is a little awkward for combining them into one
characteristic as previously threatened. Not insurmountable, though.
If we track damage by counting up rather than tracking remaining hit
points by counting down, then when the total of getting clobbered plus
getting murdered is more than your Con, you’re out, that’s simple (and
includes the old rule of losing one Stun for every Body you lose). But
then we have to say you’re dying/dead when you’re at half Con or
some other less obvious value. But wait! You don’t actually die until
you’ve taken twice your Body (reached negative Body equal to your max),
so if killing damage is more than half Con, you’re just bleeding. Half
Con is also the most damage (killing + normal) you can take in a single
hit without being stunned, so at least it’s not just a spurious value
used in one place for no good reason. It appears spuriously in two
places, which makes it a real value worth tracking.