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so, here's the scene: my (demigod) adventurer sets off to kill a 'mate of the twilight troll' that lives in some stupid cave somewhere.  easy peasy, i think, as i killed another one of its brood without any fuss whatsoever.

i go to the cave, pop my head 'round the door and see myself a big scary troll bitch.  we do battle.  i smack it in the skull with my scimitar (how did that not kill it?), but, shock horror, it bites me in the leg and latches on.  i slice its hand off in an attack of opportunity, but this doesn't even phase it, rather alarmingly.  it shakes me around, which hits a nerve and removes my freaking ability to walk. 

'fuck, best plan what weapon to specialise in once this chump bleeds out', i think to myself.  instead of running, i decide to stand, fight and die an honourable death.  on the floor, i sink my pearly whites into this troll thing's leg, yet this only annoys it slightly.  i'm backed into a corner with nowhere else to go, so i attempt a final gambit.  a normal/normal aimed head attack, with the faintest chance of hitting, let alone killing in a single hit. 





'the severed part flies off in an arc'.

after that page of melodrama, share with us your best near-death saves.  the only criteria is that they must be awesome!

I think naming levers would be incredibly useful.  You could give the name 'magma flood', for a Boatmurdered style world-burning device.  Perhaps a keyword detector, if it picks up the words flood, magma, kill, open or whatever, you could get a confirmation screen if you order it to be pulled.  Because killing the entire universe accidentally would suck.

If you're making a megaproject, say for instance a 20 z-level tall tower built out of obsidian walls, you should be able to designate the wall constructions as a 'megaproject', which mason dwarves have priority in finishing.  Rather than making other walls, they'll focus on making your Armok-impaling tower.  Then, once they're done, Dwarves get a really happy thought, similar on scale to finishing an artifact since.. well, that's what a megaproject is really, a gigantic artifact.   Just thought it would be cool for Dwarves to be happy after making something really gigantic and awesome, there would have to be size limits for a megaproject to be designated or make happiness proportional to the size, to stop people from being able to farm it to stop tantrums.  The designating thing is just so the game knows what is and is not a megaproject.

I just got a L+ president.  His name is Wade Shagwell.  Shag.  Fucking.  Well.  Seriously, that's the best last name ever.  Anyone else had names this brilliant?

So, one of my squadmembers just punched someone's arm off.  Or other appendage, it doesn't really matter.  What does matter is if this is a bug or not, I wasn't really paying attention to the combat announcements so I dunno what they actually severed.  I saw the flash of yellow text and a big blood splat on the navigation window, yet all of my squad's people still have liberal health and nothing ripped off.  Can you actually punch things off people, or punch them in half with good enough stats? If so, that's fucking awesome!

Everyone was wearing SWAT armour, 4 people in my squad with martial arts skills ranging from 12 to 16, and strength stats from 11 to 17.

Secondary note: All my squad members other than the founder have a higher Wisdom than Heart.  Remind me never to try and take on news anchors >.>

Attacking someone in unarmed combat should have a chance of snapping one of their limbs, if you attack it especially hard.  Say, instead of landing 4 or 5 hits on someone's left arm, you break it with a jump-kick.  It might send them into shock (groaning, soiling self), immobilizing the C in question.  If it doesn't shock them, breaking an arm should probably lower the accuracy of attacks, or if it's a leg, stop them from running away.  Plus, if you break someone's bones/ribs, you should have a chance of causing internal bleeding or rupturing an organ if it's a rib, which will bring about their death just a little bit faster.  Either that, or when a C is immobilized, you should stop attacking their limbs and beat them to death.  It doesn't make much sense attacking someone's limbs when they're already cowering on the floor, as far as I can tell it has no effect.

First off, I love fire.  Just thought it'd be a good idea to get that out into the open.  Secondly, where do I find torches?  Do angry mobs chase you with them, can you buy them?  Third and finally, can you burn stuff down with torches?  Or, maybe, if you devastate say 1/3 of a site with fire from Molotov cocktails, you could turn it into a derelict building that would have to be closed down for years on end to refurbish it?  Firebomb the police station to stop all those pesky sieges