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[Sutremaine]

I've been working on a weapon. I'd like it to be the only weapon in its class, so that the only way to train the skill that uses it is to use the weapon itself. I have managed to do this through modding, but at the cost of kicking out every other weapon that uses the Bow skill. Plus, it only works once because I already appropriated the Mace skill for knives (since Knife User isn't a profession).

So what I'd like is a way to create subclasses of weapons that require their own skill.

The original idea was a 'uses unique skill' tag on a weapon, which would cause an urumi (for example) to train its user as 'Novice Lasher (Urumi)' instead of 'Novice Lasher', the latter of which would be transferable to whips and scourges. But that would require more than the addition of a tag, since the game would have to support user-made skills or find a way to apply the modifiers for an existing skill to a meta-skill.

Thoughts?

[Vattic]

Each weapon could have a number of [WEAPON_CLASS:x] tokens which would allow you to group weapons that are similar in technique. A dwarf who mastered a certain type of weapon would have his skill bleed across when using similar weapons. This avoids him being useless with an unfamiliar yet similar weapon. Using a specific weapon should give finesse that shouldn't carry over. A percentage of similarity to the class might be useful in determining how much skill should bleed [WEAPON_CLASS:name:1-100%].

So each class would be like an ideal which you work towards when using any weapon in that class. Progression towards the ideal would improve basic use of all weapons in that class. To master a specific weapon use of that specific weapon would be required.

In the system roughed out above you'd be able to give a weapon a unique weapon class and have it skill up in seclusion. If percentages are used you could have it be vaguely similar to other weapons for a little skill bleed.

[Sutremaine]

Would that allow for shifting between weapon classes as well (learn hammer weapon -> learn hammer / mace weapon with bonus -> learn mace weapon with bonus)?

Something even more interesting would be to have a system that can be applied to any skill, not just weapons. That way people can have their separate carpentry subskills as well.

[GreatWyrmGold]

What I would like is some way to just create skills. For instance, I've had an idea bubbling in my head for a while to mod in a "dustmagik" or somesuch workshop that uses its own unique skill to create stones out of the dust in the air and then refine those stones into better stones and eventually metals...but it would need to hijack an existing skill to do it.