Survival in Dyrhal

The road takes from you in ways that do not show until you need what it took.

A day holds twelve segments of two hours each. At the start of each one the party chooses: travel, act, rest, or sleep. Travel moves you. Action changes the situation. Rest pays down immediate exertion. Sleep pays down what the road has done to you.

What the road collects

• The Rule of Two — two consecutive travel or action segments, then you rest. Press past it and it is a forced march, and the debt is Lingering Fatigue.
• Two kinds of tired — Fatigue clears with a rest. Lingering Fatigue clears one point per sleep segment, and you cannot sleep off a week of bad decisions in one night.
• Something is out there — every segment rolls against the Encounter Step, from Safe on a patrolled road to Hostile in deep wilderness and war ground.
• Injury has thresholds — at half Health you are Wounded and bleeding fatigue every round. At zero, the Trauma Check decides between incapacitated and dead, with no appeal.
• Scars are permanent — coming back from zero costs a Toughness test, and failing it takes something you do not get back.
• Retirement is an ending — a character who can no longer march can still matter, through the people they were tied to.

Combat is dangerous. Retreat is often wise.