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[TheLinguist]

Yeah, restricting nagas from producing weapons like pikes is a good step - when masterwork steel spears are at play, the ability to one-hand an +iron pike+ sounds a lot less concerning.

I'm glad that the balance concerns seem to be working out for your mod, btw. Always nice when that happens .

[Xotano]

Well, when i hear naga i instantly think warcraft III

ah well thats the problem, i think Greek mythology when i hear it, snake women with bows and spears.

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The way I see it, no matter how strong the race is when it comes to attacks, it's really not going to make much difference in terms of balance because combat in DF is all about survivability. If a Naga adventurer then has an advantage upon aquiring better gear, then one could say that's asymmetric design at work.

It's straying a bit from the point of this thread, but one thing I'd consider doing is giving the Naga a dramatically better agility attribute, but significantly lowering their base speed (lowering as in making them slower). This'll put their "handling" on a different scale to the other races (because, as you probably know, speed is multiplicatively affected by agility and other attributes). Or perhaps it should be the other way around. Low speed and high agility makes me think of something that can move fast by design; vice versa I think of something that has a lot of potential via technique but isn't so steady at first. It'd make them a little more interesting at least.

Also note that willpower and focus have effects on combat.

i think Greek mythology when i hear it, snake women with bows and spears.

You mean the amalgamation of the Gorgon/Lamia concept and general Greek/Roman themage adopted by fantasy writers?