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For some reason out adventures have a 360 degree view even though most of them have binocular vision (front facing eyes). Other humans and such don’t have this 360 view. I think this could be fixed by limiting the view to a cone like the other creatures. It would add more difficulty but also make it more realistic and make you have to check to see if you’re being followed. This field of view could be changed depending on if you’re playing as a humanoid, or as an animal type person such as a bird with (almost) 360 view.

There are two types of controls you could try with this.
-unchanged where your view is determined by where you move. This is how view is determined by ai but would give limited control of where your view cone is pointing.

-tank controls. The view cone would be changed with the left and right arrows, with 8 possible directions to face (cardinal and diagonal). The up and down arrow could be used to move forward (and backward without changing view direction). This would give you more control over view but may cost you time during battle if you need to turn to look behind you (unless turning is very low set to 1 instant or to nothing at all).

UnReal World does these roguelike tank controls very well and has the same basic consept. If you have any additions to this I would like to know.

this could be a building block to generated martial arts

I could see this happening. Perhaps these could be learned through champions/soldiers or learned about in books. Perhaps in Adventure mode you could find a codex in a tomb that contains an ancient set of fighting techniques that have higher impact than basic punches or kicks. Your liege might teach you a way so that if you grab an enemies incoming attack, you can knock them over or stun them much easier than normal.

Planning on adding deformities such as giantism, dwarfism, Siamese twins, club foot and butterfly syndrome to dwarves, goblins (to a much greater extent) and humans (maybe elves but to a lesser extent.) via the caste system. They would be somewhat rare (around 1 out of every 100-200 would be deformed in some way). I have giantism and dwarfism already done but if you guys want to see any specific disease/deformity/disability let me know.

Send me requests and if it seems interesting enough I'll draw your adventure mode character. Please include a screen cap of their description as well as important items like their weapon of choice, or for non-combatants, their instrument description.

Here's my rat-man adventurer. Weak and frail with nothing but a loincloth and stick to fight off his enemies.

Thank you so much!

A bi-pedal rat man with blood that acts as a contact poison. (Necrotic or blisters)
I'll leave the rest up to your imagination

You can simply make a new material for them to use that is technically a metal but has the properties of wood

oh and maybe make a different plump helmet man civ that trades with them

Currently their ethics let them trade with goblins. They're often at war with humans and sometimes elves.

I'd also like to try and keep this somewhat serious. The notion of plump helmet men makes me imagine dwarves ferverishly shoving hordes of them into the cellar like it's The Road, ready to be brewed into sentient wine.