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Good because I think if it could actually hurt someone, it would be illegal... Or at least it would be in Canada... the place where having Pepper Sprey is against the law. (Judging by how I never seen Pepper Spray used on someone who actually needed it... I can't say I am against that law)

Things that hurt people being made illegal in the US?

Not likely to happen soon.

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You aren't going for full authenticity with the Tanuki, are you?  Because that will make for some very disturbing combat sequences if the weapons land on some of their more prominent features...

hahahah... thought about it

I'm probably going to cut some corners during body creation on the most disturbing Japanese legends. People will be encountering creatures and have no idea what they are unless I offer a short explanation - which I'll have.

Asians have pretty fucked up folklore... actually, forklore is fucked up in general. The uncut brothers Grimm and such... man. Disturbing stuff.

EDIT: Here's my fix and more Chinese weapons. It'll read "Japanese iron katana (longsword)" now.

Universalist. I believe that regardless of religion, you are judged on the content of your character. Also, I  believe there's a Higher Power that we can't comprehend, and it has never really talked to us. (In the Jesus or Bhudda sense)

I don't think you know what Buddhism is

Whenever he encountered a question about god or gods, Buddha stated that god/gods were 'irrelevant" in the truly important thing, nibbana/nirvana and true happiness.

Most Buddhists do acknowledge the existance of various gods, spirits, etc (it did spawn from hinduism) but realize gods don't have control over your happiness if you don't let them. That's all based on the strength of your own mind/spirit.

This looks good. Looking forward to more work done by the memory hackers.

OT - heheh, Tamren and I are our resident poists... I wonder if there's anyone else.

Man, when I saw this thread I was thinking if the FBI used google to find terrorists we'd be fucked.

jk FBI, this is only a game! 

So I was reading the dual wielding thread and was sparked to post something that has been bugging me for awhile.

I checked the dev log, but didn't search through all of it, so let me know if it's been discussed before.

Currently, the only way to avoid blows are for shots to miss, to dodge, to block with a shield, and to absorb with armor.

We CAN (only while in martial trance?) bat projectiles coming at our face out of the air with our weapons.

h'okay, so... Can we give our weapons a moddable % chance to parry other weapons?

It could be smaller % than block on shields, but allow more diversity of weapon types as well as make combat in later stages not so "who gets the first hit and sends the guy flying through the air instantly". Battles will involve more hitting and missing, and imho be more intense.

This would allow dual wielding a weapon in each hand not to be so worthless compared to shield users. There would be a higher survivability rate for two-handed weapon users who right now I believe are much easier to take out, much more than they should be compared to shield users.

Parrying perhaps can be made to work against smaller or equal size weapons, but not against much larger ones like polearms - thus giving a another reason to create large weapons instead of one handed ones.
 
This can create a whole group of weapons in DF that IRL were used mainly to parry/break/disarm the opponent's weapon. And while I don't believe that all three should be implemented, it would definitely be an exciting addition to DF combat.