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Hmm...that almost sounds like a fun idea. What would happen if you attached a restrained goblin to an elephant then told the elephant to run around? I like it!

Radius and Radius_Hole are mutually exclusive, but Reach+Strength Reach would mean there is a minimum range and that the rest would be determined by the user. E.g. a bow would be capable of shooting 10 by default but for every something x of strength the user had, they could fire it up to an additional tile away...

Nah...we just need to surround the farms with enough animal traps that we can begin farming bunny-meat for ourselves. 

My suggestion is that weapons shouldn't be their own distinct entity of item, but that an item should be capable of having weapon-attack tags on them. E.g. suppose I wanted to bash my opponent in by chucking barrels at him. We would add a tag to barrel called [Weapon_Attack] and input the rest of the parameters as normal. Additionally, some weapons should be capable of multiple attack types...e.g. a Halberd should be usable for bashing, slashing, stabbing, etc. Additionally, more tokens would be awesome: Examples include.

[Min_Skill]: The minimum required skill level to be able to use this attack. Can represent more advanced moves opening up to skilled fighters.
[Max_Skill]: The maximum required skill level before this attack is disabled. Represents unlearning bad moves/upgrading to better ones.
[Reach:x]: The range of the weapon in tiles. Range 0 represents the attack hitting the user. Range 1 would be a standard attack. Range 2 or 3 would represent extended weapons like pikes/whips. Greater than that would be marksman weapons.
[StrengthReach:x]: A form of reach where the maximum range is the strength of the user, multiplied by x.
[Radius:x]: An attack of this kind will hit everything within x tiles of the attack point.
[Radius_Hole: x] Like Radius, except the tile of attack is not affected.
[Cone:x]: Attacks will spread forth in a cone of the angle specified (will make rough approximates for tiles).
[line]: Attack hits in a line until it hits a wall.
[link]: A second damage type is added to the weapon. E.g. for poisoned blades.

Suggestions?

I would like to see cats owned by the same person randomly fight each other, or an idle break job called "play with pet(s)". Also, cats should be capable of eating vermin outright.

And then we would have an enterprising Cut-me-own-throat Dwarf selling Sausage-inna-bun.

A debug mode would also be nice for setting up adventurer maps for competitions, allowing one to build all sorts of complex dungeons without having to worry about exterior constraints.