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[Sean Mirrsen]

I've been thinking of how to make more "picturesque" images of events. And figured out a rather simple, in my opinion, way of doing it.

Right now, the game does not track the equipment of people during worldgen, it only arms them after they've gone through the history (which is in itself bad and causes funny things). But even then, it could allow a little better detail describing the manner in which something happened. Specifically, woundings and killings.

When doing the rolls for worldgen battles, the game already properly uses natural attacks. What if the legends could relay the actual attack that resulted in the wound/death? So instead of seeing "The human strikes down the human.", you could see, for example, "The human roundhouse kicks the human in the head. The human's head is smashed into the body, an unrecognizable mess.", with the describing text unchanged, and names substituted if viewing from adventurer mode. I don't know how much information can be realistically gotten out of the current worldgen without altering it too much, but the idea seems plausibly simple.

[Sean Mirrsen]

Hm. Silence can mean that either the idea is so sound there's nothing to add to it or talk about, or it could mean it's so bad it's not worth discussing.

So...  which one is it?

[Fishersalwaysdie]

I think it would be too much to track, and there's no need to make the text unchanged "The human roundhouse kicks the human in the head. The human is stricken down." would feel better.
But all in all, it's a good idea.

[PTTG??]

I like it!

No, seriously, I like it!!!

Really, it's a good idea!!!!!!!!!

[JoRo]

I actually have an image of a human commemorating him getting his head ripped (or maybe he was ripping someone's head) in my fort, so some of this would appear to already be already exist.