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Hotaru

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Your best original combat moves
« on: February 04, 2012, 05:43:01 am »
I was running from a dragon after some misguided lair exploration, towards his cave's exit to the surface. Just as I had left the lair opening, he breathed dragonfire at me. So, my talented adventurer did a clever dodge straight back towards the opening, slamming into the dragon waiting below - not once but twice. Apparently from the combat log, the first time he did it the dragon was knocked on the floor, then as I scrambled out of there he swiped at me, so my adventurer slammed him again, which stunned him. Amazingly enough this somehow worked so that I got out of there alive and probably left the dragon a headache, too.

While I realize it's just the misguided dodge function and this could well have killed me, I like to imagine my adventurer flinging himself into a desperate elbow slam towards a stupefied dragon's head.

Anyway, particularly cool stunts and such please.
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Re: Your best original combat moves
« Reply #1 on: February 04, 2012, 12:44:24 pm »
I usually throw coins at people as they are running towards me... Its not particularly effective but sometimes you can get bone chips/stuns from it... and the mental image of throwing a pocket full of change in someones face is entertaining.

For tougher enemies trowing spears is a good way to turn the tables. A good throw will easily one-shot a gobbo.
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Re: Your best original combat moves
« Reply #2 on: February 04, 2012, 02:14:44 pm »
I once chopped all of a human's limbs off, leaving only the stump of his body and head.

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Re: Your best original combat moves
« Reply #3 on: February 04, 2012, 05:01:02 pm »
Throwing a giant eagle feather at a marsh titan, bruising its stomach and breaking bones, watching it chase me towards the cliff and... RUN UP THE FUCKING WALL AND CHOP ITS HEAD OFF BAM!!!
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« Reply #4 on: February 04, 2012, 06:14:43 pm »
Quote from: Maxmurder on February 04, 2012, 12:44:24 pm
I usually throw coins at people as they are running towards me... Its not particularly effective but sometimes you can get bone chips/stuns from it... and the mental image of throwing a pocket full of change in someones face is entertaining.

I'm reminded of this.
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« Reply #5 on: February 04, 2012, 09:57:20 pm »
I like to jam spears into my enemies and let go, watching them bleed out while stumbling towards me.
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Re: Your best original combat moves
« Reply #6 on: February 05, 2012, 10:03:51 am »
Oh, also, drinking frost wyrm dragonbreath. I usually drink it from my eyes at least so I don't go blind, also any glancing hits. Mm... chilly.
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Re: Your best original combat moves
« Reply #7 on: February 05, 2012, 10:47:32 am »
Mine was playing the Wizard mod, I was running around as a golem, which for some reason are god in adventure mode. What happened was I was going to fight a dragon, which set me aflame, and while burning I assume my arm melted off and suffocated him, which is what happened, as I walked outside, I was starting to melt, I had him lean against a tree, and die from bleeding out...mud. I can's see why he can't just use some of the dirt around him, I mean, He could even use magic!
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Re: Your best original combat moves
« Reply #8 on: February 06, 2012, 01:34:56 pm »
Quote from: Maxmurder on February 04, 2012, 12:44:24 pm
I usually throw coins at people as they are running towards me... Its not particularly effective but sometimes you can get bone chips/stuns from it... and the mental image of throwing a pocket full of change in someones face is entertaining.

For tougher enemies trowing spears is a good way to turn the tables. A good throw will easily one-shot a gobbo.
I believe there is a quote on the wiki that says something similar. Ahh, here it is:
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"Damn, isn't there a way to start out where fights aren't like a coin toss?" "Ironically enough, tossing coins is among one of the most effective forms of combat."

And coin power now is nothing compared to what it was back in 40d. I remember regularly severing body parts with flung coins, up to and including the time that I 1-shotted one of my powered up dragons from my personal mod with a decapitation shot.
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Re: Your best original combat moves
« Reply #9 on: February 07, 2012, 03:04:49 am »
Once when I got stuck in a river I spent 15 minutes chasing schools of fish around and throwing hippos at them. If only real fishing was this awesome.
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« Reply #10 on: February 07, 2012, 12:56:51 pm »
Quote from: PommeDeTom on February 07, 2012, 03:04:49 am
Once when I got stuck in a river I spent 15 minutes chasing schools of fish around and throwing hippos at them. If only real fishing was this awesome.
Best. Fishing. Trip. EVER.
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Re: Your best original combat moves
« Reply #11 on: February 07, 2012, 05:13:04 pm »
I quite like kicking my followers off of cliffs or large objects. If they're alive, I'll charge them from the large object. I get the mental image of some guy jumping off of a cliff with his sword out, impaling the unlucky guy below him.
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Re: Your best original combat moves
« Reply #12 on: February 07, 2012, 11:19:45 pm »
Sometimes for fun I sneak around bandit camps, pick up rocks, stand near a bandit, and toss a rock at another nearby bandit. I like to imagine them yelling at each other for being childish and such. :D

I collected knives from night creatures and used them as throwing knives once. It was pretty effective but I got surprise headsmashed by an elephant before I could get really good at it. 
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« Reply #13 on: February 07, 2012, 11:41:04 pm »
It's pretty enjoyable to knock someone down with a charge stab to the upper body with a spear, then take a short sword out with other hand and cut them/stab them. Like, pin them to the ground with the first attack then go in for the fatal blow.
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Re: Your best original combat moves
« Reply #14 on: February 08, 2012, 02:11:29 pm »
Kill a mooseman family. With the femur of a FREAKING HALFLING!
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