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[Mr S]

Every time Toady talks about fixing bugs, such as the Aardvark Cliffhanger, I can't but help imagining what bugs won't get squashed, or how squashing one bug might make another comicly prevalent.  And I giggle a little.

I love this game.

[Mesa]

I feel like we're coming towards the release faster and faster. (the cliffhanger - either a strange bug or an awesome feature)

I just wish Toady could share a full battle log using the new system.

[Dragula]

We have them in our stories, and we don't really have objections to it.  Sorting out the raw creature definitions is a mess.

Is it possible to sort out the raws in such manner as half-breeds can be generated as the game goes? Half-elves, half-dwarves, or however you have chosen to split races/species.

[Mesa]

Is aiming ranged attack in for this release or can we consider that something a bit further down the road?
With the combat system rework, it only makes sense, but - you're the developer here.

[PTTG??]

We have them in our stories, and we don't really have objections to it.  Sorting out the raw creature definitions is a mess.

Is it possible to sort out the raws in such manner as half-breeds can be generated as the game goes? Half-elves, half-dwarves, or however you have chosen to split races/species.

I'm going off the cuff here- I'm not privy to the code- but I suspect that while it might be a relatively simple project to compare two creature raws as they are now and then just average out/combine raws, and maybe roll randomly to select from conflicting possibilities... doing this in a way that usually produces satisfying outcomes might require a more complex RAW notation so that notable features from a race are preserved well while avoiding such sillyness as a half-elf inheriting a pair of arms from its elven mother, and pair of arms from its human father, coming out of the process looking like a badly-designed spider.

At the same time, wings are limbs, and when you have eagle-men, those guys might work best with arms AND wings, even though that technically makes them six-limbed.

Certainly some interesting challenges. However, I like the idea that animal-men and half-breeds might exist naturally in the game world. It would give animal-men more connection to the world if they are definitively tied to a certain event centuries ago.

[Mesa]

We have them in our stories, and we don't really have objections to it.  Sorting out the raw creature definitions is a mess.

Is it possible to sort out the raws in such manner as half-breeds can be generated as the game goes? Half-elves, half-dwarves, or however you have chosen to split races/species.

I'm going off the cuff here- I'm not privy to the code- but I suspect that while it might be a relatively simple project to compare two creature raws as they are now and then just average out/combine raws, and maybe roll randomly to select from conflicting possibilities... doing this in a way that usually produces satisfying outcomes might require a more complex RAW notation so that notable features from a race are preserved well while avoiding such sillyness as a half-elf inheriting a pair of arms from its elven mother, and pair of arms from its human father, coming out of the process looking like a badly-designed spider.

At the same time, wings are limbs, and when you have eagle-men, those guys might work best with arms AND wings, even though that technically makes them six-limbed.

Certainly some interesting challenges. However, I like the idea that animal-men and half-breeds might exist naturally in the game world. It would give animal-men more connection to the world if they are definitively tied to a certain event centuries ago.

If we end up having this feature in, I'm just going to play as half-human half-elf and name him Gelu.
Again, props to those who understand.

[iceball3]

Toady, how is scamps doing?

[Footkerchief]

Toady, how is scamps doing?

Toady discussed Scamps in the recent AMA on Reddit.

[MrWillsauce]

What are martial trances really and why are they unique to dwarves? Is there any canonical reason for them that isn't just that dwarves are the feature of Dwarf Mode?

[monk12]

Is aiming ranged attack in for this release or can we consider that something a bit further down the road?
With the combat system rework, it only makes sense, but - you're the developer here.

I imagine it hasn't changed since your last question a month ago- I'm pretty sure he'll mention it in the devlog since he knows it's an often-requested feature, and unless I mistake my guess he's doing the bare minimum necessary on his to-do list in order to get a release out.

    With new mobility-related stuff, does that mean we can see grappling hooks happening?

    Also, slightly unrelated, but are there plans for aimed ranged attacks (firing and throwing), so that we aren't just hoping that we hit something worth hitting?

Back when I started climbing for this release, I think grappling hooks was sort of a wish-list feature that was going in depending on whether or not I felt like I had the time, and I haven't really gotten to anything with ropes at this point at all.

I'm all for being able to aim at what you want to aim at, and it's the kind of thing I imagine will happen fairly early on next time I mess with ranged combat, but I don't know when that'll be.

[Mesa]

I imagine that he could take care of that with a smaller release after this major one. (an example of "smaller" release being the minecart/hauling overhaul one)

[syyrah]

We have them in our stories, and we don't really have objections to it.  Sorting out the raw creature definitions is a mess.

Is it possible to sort out the raws in such manner as half-breeds can be generated as the game goes? Half-elves, half-dwarves, or however you have chosen to split races/species.

I'm going off the cuff here- I'm not privy to the code- but I suspect that while it might be a relatively simple project to compare two creature raws as they are now and then just average out/combine raws, and maybe roll randomly to select from conflicting possibilities... doing this in a way that usually produces satisfying outcomes might require a more complex RAW notation so that notable features from a race are preserved well while avoiding such sillyness as a half-elf inheriting a pair of arms from its elven mother, and pair of arms from its human father, coming out of the process looking like a badly-designed spider.

At the same time, wings are limbs, and when you have eagle-men, those guys might work best with arms AND wings, even though that technically makes them six-limbed.

Certainly some interesting challenges. However, I like the idea that animal-men and half-breeds might exist naturally in the game world. It would give animal-men more connection to the world if they are definitively tied to a certain event centuries ago.

If we end up having this feature in, I'm just going to play as half-human half-elf and name him Gelu.
Again, props to those who understand.

Note to self: Leaving apocalyptic artifacts to hippie blooded albinoes may result in !!xWORLDx!!.

[Mesa]

We have them in our stories, and we don't really have objections to it.  Sorting out the raw creature definitions is a mess.

Is it possible to sort out the raws in such manner as half-breeds can be generated as the game goes? Half-elves, half-dwarves, or however you have chosen to split races/species.

I'm going off the cuff here- I'm not privy to the code- but I suspect that while it might be a relatively simple project to compare two creature raws as they are now and then just average out/combine raws, and maybe roll randomly to select from conflicting possibilities... doing this in a way that usually produces satisfying outcomes might require a more complex RAW notation so that notable features from a race are preserved well while avoiding such sillyness as a half-elf inheriting a pair of arms from its elven mother, and pair of arms from its human father, coming out of the process looking like a badly-designed spider.

At the same time, wings are limbs, and when you have eagle-men, those guys might work best with arms AND wings, even though that technically makes them six-limbed.

Certainly some interesting challenges. However, I like the idea that animal-men and half-breeds might exist naturally in the game world. It would give animal-men more connection to the world if they are definitively tied to a certain event centuries ago.

If we end up having this feature in, I'm just going to play as half-human half-elf and name him Gelu.
Again, props to those who understand.

Note to self: Leaving apocalyptic artifacts to hippie blooded albinoes may result in !!xWORLDx!!.

The thing is you also need a human with a sword that menaces with spikes of ice.

[finka]

At the same time, wings are limbs, and when you have eagle-men, those guys might work best with arms AND wings, even though that technically makes them six-limbed.

I don't know why people don't find centaurs and bird-men and so forth to be creepy, because they're creepy, and for exactly this reason.  You can't make them by swapping out part for cognate part (like DF's mammalian animal-men); you've got to, like, cut the horse off at the neck and the human off at the midsection and stitch disparate bits together, and at that point you may as well be Cyriak. 

[Chagen46]

Toady, is it ever planned for humans (maybe even other races) to actually split into ethnic groups--not just with their own culture, but looks as well (such as people living near the equator/in hot climates being a little darker in general)? Will there ever be ethnic rivalry/hatred between these different ethnic groups, should they ever exist?

As someone who loves to study culture and the like, I think this would be quite nice to see.