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RedM Roleplay Guides
How to play injuries, run medical scenes, read a d20, and keep your roleplay honest. Written for RedM and any wild west RP table.
Injury roleplay
How to Roleplay Injuries in RedM: The Complete Injury RP Guide
How to roleplay injuries in RedM: match wounds to the cause, roll severity on a d20, write clean /me lines, and play the recovery without breaking FailRP rules.
Doctor and patient
Medical RP in RedM: a field guide for patients and frontier doctors
Run better wild west medical RP in RedM: how patients describe wounds, how doctors run exam scenes, period treatments, dice complications, and getting hired as a medic.
The slow mend
Injury recovery times in RP: how long to play the wound
Realistic recovery timelines for RedM roleplay: gunshot wounds, broken legs, bites and head injuries, with treated and untreated clocks and d20 setback rolls.
Copy-paste reference
100 RedM /me examples for wounds, pain and doctor visits
100 copy-paste /me examples for RedM roleplay: gunshot wounds, brawls, snakebites, fever and doctor visits, plus quick rules for writing your own lines.
Dice and fate
Dice rolls in RedM roleplay: when to roll and how to read a d20
Learn when to roll dice in RedM roleplay, how to read a d20 as a fate ladder from catastrophic to miraculous, and how to build RP dice rules your crew trusts.
Trail wrecks
How to roleplay a horse wreck in RedM without breaking immersion
How to roleplay falling off your horse in RedM: six kinds of wreck, injuries that match each one, d20 severity rolls, /me lines, and playing your horse's hurts too.
Period medicine
Frontier medicine in 1899: what your RedM doctor can and cannot do
What a frontier doctor could really do in 1899: laudanum and morphine, gunshot surgery, amputation, quack cures, and period vocabulary for RedM medical RP.
Rules glossary
FailRP, powergaming and NLR: the RedM rulebook in plain english
Plain-english definitions of FailRP, powergaming, metagaming, the new life rule and perming a character, with RedM examples and whitelist answer tips.