Hard Labor & the Iron Road
The frontier works you as hard as it shoots you
9 d20 injury roll tables for RedM roleplay. Each table maps every roll from 1 (catastrophic) to 20 (miraculous) to a playable outcome with symptoms to act, a recovery clock and a doctor call for medical RP.
Rope Burn: The Dally Slips
The dally slips, the steer hits the end, and the rope runs through your bare palm hunting for bone.
Thrown into Barbed Wire
Your horse shies at nothing and puts you into the fence, and barbed wire does not let go polite.
The Bear Trap Springs
Hidden iron under the leaf litter, jaws filed sharp and chained to a stake. You put your weight down right where somebody hoped you would.
Axe Glance at the Woodpile
The stroke falls, the knot turns it, and the edge goes looking for your boot. You were splitting wood; now the wood splits back.
The Sawmill Blade
The blade never stops to ask. Your sleeve drifted an inch too close to the spinning saw, and the mill got loud.
Caught in the Car Couplers
A mile of freight rolls in to couple, and your hand is in the gap. The yard eats fingers for wages.
Run Down on the Rails
You step across the depot tracks just as the slack runs out and a freight car rolls down on you, quiet as a church and heavy as sin.
Bad Air in the Shaft
The candle bows, the air goes sweet and heavy, and the drift wants you to lie down. Roll before you do.
Ruptured at the Lift
You set your back under a mired wagon and lifted with everything you own. Low in your belly, something is deciding whether to hold.