But you're too tired to flee!

[Cavaticus]

Average walking speed of an adult human, 6 miles an hour (real time). 

Six mph is actually well into competitive "racewalking" speeds. Average human walking speed across a flat and unhampered surface is closer to three.

[Synthesis]

Yeah, the hiking standard for Marine Corps infantry is 3 miles in an hour, minus a 10 minute rest every hour.  3 miles in 50 minutes is about 3.6 mph when you're moving.

But it's more like a series of 8mph sprints if you're stuck at the back of the column, heh.

Edited to add: this doesn't sound like much of a pace, but when you're in hilly terrain and packing 60+ lbs. of gear, 20 miles is brutal.

[evil_erdlu]

[joking, this has become way too serious]We were chatting in tinyMUD and an author agreed with me, too. See?

[0:39] fantasywriter: I agree with erdlu.

Yey!
[/joking, this has become way too serious]

[FantasyWriter]

Granted, I had just logged in and had no idea what I was agreeing with.

[original]

The way I see it, you are moving still even while to tired to flee. You are not "frozen" You are to tired to traverse the distance of the next room. I could go into how you got into this situation, since you obviously ran to almost no stam to get away from something, playing below 25% is a stamina rush in a way, but instead I will point out the room.

In a city you can flee quite a distance without running out of stamina, so it was a fair chase I think before you wore out.

In the desert, unable to move just means you can't make it to 'Nak, you can stumble down the side of the dune battling with that scrab chasing you, but you can't do it for a mile, league or whatever else we have.

Just my OP, but an adrenaline, stamina, duty, hunger, bloodlust, or whatever, rush should be roleplayed anytime you drop below 25..maybe 15%.

Now... offer me a perm, unrecoverable and noticeable penalty to my HP to push my body to damaging limits and get stamina to flee, and I'll jump on 100% (especially if you have to kick it in before losing say 50 or 25% of your HP, basically while you are strong enough to push yourself, and so people would seriously have to make that choice earlier then 4hp)

[spawnloser]

You all know that the whole walking speed thing was a derail, don't you?  Still, if you're walking slowly, you should be entering the commands slowly... if you're entering the commands quickly, you're walking quickly, so yeah, you aren't far from racewalking if you're spamwalking, in my eyes.

Back on topic, of course you're not sitting there immobile while in combat.  Just because you're able to move doesn't mean you're able to make it any distance, and that's what having 0 stamina in the desert means.  You aren't getting far enough to get away from anything... so let's keep it that way.  That means that idiots that spam away all their stamina and then get in combat get their just desserts.  Play smart to represent your characters' smarts.  The smart survive and those that don't take those precautions don't.  It's that simple.

[MarshallDFX]

James Bond can still flee, despite being stamina depleted.