Over the last couple hours I took to taking out trees from the fence line of a 10 acre ranch property. In that process I faced more signifigant challenge than one would honestly expect even if you are a d20 proffesional. I am not joking! Between thorns and wild swings of the hand axe I have to have taken 10 hp. I mean my shoulder is going to be sore for days, with bedrest!
The limbs of the trees thwacked me several times, and some of them had thorns. None of the trees were tall so this actually made them more resiliant and springy insomuch as hacking through a real tree trunk with limbs far above me would not have resulted in as many 1hp pings. Note, I have alergy plant so in addition to a half dozen thorn and branch knicks I will also be effectively poisoned for like 20 subdule damage from poison effect. Ouch.
Another point of fact is I fumbled an equipment roll somehow when I stood up suddenly after having been knelt over pulling up roots of a bush and woop my glasses flew off and literally snapped in twain on the back of my hand axe. Arg. And! Either I dont have prof: simple weapons, my str score is too low without weapon finess, or there is some sort of trap CR based on the act of deforesting a fence line that makes you take a reflex save for every attack because I about lost that dang thing half a dozen times. Maybe I have some negative 'weak grip' trait that makes it harder to handle the hand axe? I literally thonked my thumb with it, but I was luckily wearing leather gloves and wasnt swinging hard enough to do more than jam it.
One thing that I am obviously reafirmed of after swinging an axe for two hours is the need for some kind of fatigue system that affects when you have been exerting yourself even for a few minutes. What is interesting that I feel as tho ( myself anyhow ) I feel as tho I get to fatiged after the first couple combat rounds, but them dont get signifigantly more fatigued for as much as a few hours of continuing at the same pace. As tho simply having exerted myself for more than one consecutive combat round made me fatigued, but it wasnt until about the end of the second hour of sustained exertion ( usually only 3-10 rounds at a time interspersed with walking ) that then I wanted to stop and have a cigarette. Having done many things like this before I am also well aware that the prolonged fatigue will be alleviated by a simple ten minutes of breathing and basically standing still.
This is all Second Wind / BST thoughts, and rather than start getting into numbers and score arrays and algorythims I will say,
Intersting,
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