Description (Healing Blade Lore) From the seas of the North to the deserts of the East, Klebsiella pneumoniae can be found throughout Soma’s communities, as well as being common to the uninhabited regions of the land. They can often live peacefully among the local inhabitants, but should a region’s defenses be weakened for any reason, [...]

I recently travelled to foggy Boston to attend the always excellent Games for Health Conference.  We’ve had a presence there before with the HOPE research initiative, but this time, Ben Sawyer, the visionary behind the conference, wanted us to talk a little bit about the Healing Blade.  I still owe Ben a beer for saving [...]

Description (Healing Blade Lore) Acinetobacter baumannii is very slow, oozing through the landscape like gruesome sludge, but its sloth should not be mistaken for apathy or incompetence. It has been trolling the hills of Soma for a century, and is one of the most virulent threats to the warring world. It can afford to be [...]

It gives me great pleasure to acknowledge and welcome Eric Beal, a med-student from KCOM that contacted us recently about his love of things nerdcore and medicine. From the attached images, I think you’ll agree – the kid has some mad mad skills. Things have been a buzz in the NCL camp lately with the [...]

Our apologies for not having manned the blog-cannon for the past few weeks! We’ve literally been NTTGS (noses to the grind-stone) prepping and actually launching the Healing Blade v1.1. Art updates, bug squashes, game revisions, the whole nine. We found ourselves at the always epic Health2.0 conference in downtown San Francisco, where we made the [...]

A few posts ago, I waxed lyrical on the merits of good writing.  Ever since we decided to open up our knowledge-base via the Healing Blade wiki, we’ve been searching for a talented writer to take on the task of breathing life into the warriors and creatures of the realm of Soma. A friend of [...]

The emergency room is at once both a fascinating and terrifying place. It is an exercise in balance and limitations, boiling down to either chaos or controlled chaos. This was my observation at a fully staffed, well stocked 400 bed regional referral center in west Texas. It tests the limits of my imagination to fathom [...]

Greetings Apothecaries & Lords of Pestilence! Healing Blade 1.1 is confirmed for its September launch. We’ll be announcing it to everyone on the NerdcoreLearning and Healing Blade Facebook Groups so that you all get first dibs on it before anyone else! We also need your help in a very important event. The Healing Blade has been [...]

Just wanted to give a heads up to folks who wrote in about our site’s wiki being down. Thank you very much! We’re in the process of getting it fixed and should have all of the moving pieces up again. In the spirit of keeping things interesting, I wanted to share with you why we [...]

This fetid bottom-feeder is an important part of the natural ecosystem, but can become malevolent if given the opportunity, displaying various resistances to apothecary attacks of late. If this agent is killed by metronidazole combined with cefotaxime, aztreonam OR ceftriaxone, then the pestilence player suffer 1 extra point of damage from this attack.