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Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on June 07, 2012, 04:46:26 pm

13 coal?!? Seems a bit excessive.
Something like 4-5 coal should be enough to mark it as more pure.

Doesn't bituminous coal produce like 9 coke these days? I'd say 13 would make sense.

Maybe. I don't use coal that much...maybe I should...but I don't...
Well, if bituminous makes 9, 13 would be perfect for anthracite. That's +4 fuel/level in a neat leveled system of coal.

Allow me to rephrase that: A not-too-unrealistic method of implementing Xantalos's idea might be to allow barehanded parrying, albeit with a chance of hand injury varying on handwear and skill. After a parry, perhaps unarmed attacks/grappling on that bodypart could be easier for a brief time (approx. 1 turn).

You could order that if you thought a demand, whether from a noble or from a civilian, was unreasonable. The demand would be dropped, everyone would get a nasty thought, and dwarves might keep their demands to themselves, leading to bad thoughts ("Urist McSuggester has been unhappy recently. He has been afraid to speak his mind recently.")

I hope you don't mind me saying that this thread is becoming increasingly confusing. Erm...actually, I can't think of anything that would help, since it seems that I'm confusing everyone as much as I'm starting to be confused.

I'm not sure what Pikdome was thinking about. Nor am I certain what incarnation is. (I know what reincarnation is, but I'm fairly certain that that's different.)

I was originally thinking of this, only with more vomit, magma, and beards.

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3. Unskilled dwarves have non-craftsdwarf options. Perhaps they'd have a chance of any moodable skill, with craftsdwarf skills having higher chances and forging skills having lower ones (for instance). Or maybe currently non-moodable skills should get kinds of moods assigned to them.
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I hope I don't sound rude, but will you please read other peoples' posts before posting? (Or did you just not realise there was a second page? That's happened to me before.)

I'm not sure about the ripping off limbs thing (it sounds too much like a scene from a bad kung-fu movie), but the rest sounds reasonable. The problems are twofold:

1. Higher unarmed combat skill does not lead to more powerful attacks, only more precise ones. This would be good to change, and for that matter it should be that way for all military skills to a lesser extent. (I'm imagining a legendary axedwarf who grew attatched to a training axe still cleaving goblins in half because he's an axelord.)
2. Injuries don't reliably cause death unless they damage the lungs or nerves leading to the lungs (causing suffocation), damage the brain (instant death), or casue a lot of bleeding (obvious). Blows to the throat should cause breathing issues, the heart should be more than an organ that bleeds a lot, and so forth...but right now, they're not. This is the bigger issue, IMHO, because it affects all combat. It might be awesome for your militiadwarves to survive arrows to the heart and throat, but it's less so when every red-shirt goblin can do the same thing.