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[Funk]

dont drop prone it does not make you harder to hit,does make you slower and a worse dodger.
it may even make you easyer to hit

[Reudh]

You get a penalty to dodging because all you can do is 'Scramble/roll' out of the way and you are easier to hit because you're slower.

You're harder to hit because you're shorter.

Overall, it makes you easier to hit.

[Xotano]

shhh, you guys are ruining all the FUN

[bombzero]

I found a working solution! if you recruit more than 5 companions they are in a full circle around you at start of battle, so you dont take any arrows!

[Angel-of-Dusk]

I've decided to become the dwarven version of Axle. Im building like the silly bugger build of Dark Souls: Double shields, and dodge galore. Gonna steam roll me some bandit crossbowmen.

[Kilroy the Grand]

I've decided to become the dwarven version of Axle. Im building like the silly bugger build of Dark Souls: Double shields, and dodge galore. Gonna steam roll me some bandit crossbowmen.

Don't laugh, I had a D&D build almost exactly like that.

[Angel-of-Dusk]

I've decided to become the dwarven version of Axle. Im building like the silly bugger build of Dark Souls: Double shields, and dodge galore. Gonna steam roll me some bandit crossbowmen.

Don't laugh, I had a D&D build almost exactly like that.

Been there, dual tower shield improvised weapon fighter'd that.

[Shinziril]

The main problem is the sheer brutality of DF combat - any decent hit has a good chance of being crippling or outright lethal (and the former may tend to resemble the latter). 

The solution is to not get hit. 

Method:
1.  Start with moderate Shield User/Dodger skills
2.  Find a smallish, inoffensive animal (a monkey, a weasel, a groundhog - whatever's handy)
3.  Get next to it, grab it with one hand so it can't get away (presumably the hand not holding your shield)
4.  Spam the period key (or e.g. a macro that hits the period key 10 times) to sit there while it flails at you
5.  Continue until Legendary Dodger and Shield User (Dodger tends to train a bit faster, but if you lay down you dodge less and thus block with the shield more, which is good for boosting them back to equality)
6.  Become almost entirely unhittable
7. ???
8.  Profit!

[Garath]

I've played one game where, if you had two shields you'd actually tie one on your back, taking it out when the other shield was bashed useless, but it still acted like a shield, so sometimes you'd take it out and wonder where those 5 arrows came from. That would be nice here too, with shots in the back often fracturing your spine.

[miauw62]

You didnt do anything wrong.
Its like HFS that you dont have to breach, and btw, you have gone lucky, goblins will shoot you whit depleted uranium soon enough.

[Steb]

I've played one game where, if you had two shields you'd actually tie one on your back, taking it out when the other shield was bashed useless, but it still acted like a shield, so sometimes you'd take it out and wonder where those 5 arrows came from. That would be nice here too, with shots in the back often fracturing your spine.

Mount & Blade?
I used to play Warband during the closed beta - Good times!

[Kilroy the Grand]

I've played one game where, if you had two shields you'd actually tie one on your back, taking it out when the other shield was bashed useless, but it still acted like a shield, so sometimes you'd take it out and wonder where those 5 arrows came from. That would be nice here too, with shots in the back often fracturing your spine.

Mount & Blade?
I used to play Warband during the closed beta - Good times!

I liked shooting people with a crossbow several hundred feet away. Goodtimes.

[NinjaBoot]

If they didn't mod dodging xp rates, then put 15 points into dodging and you should be fine as you'll be Jackie Chan in dwarf form (if your a dwarf). 

If you want a way in which you absolutely don't have to fight crossbowmen when you are looking to train your skills, then find a town with a sewer system and find the whatever-people that inhabit them. 

In this way you can be 15 dodging and novice everything else and still train yourself upto good stats, while your dodging would increase slowly (unless they fixed its xp rate). 

[TheLinguist]

Nah, dodging still trains really slowly, unless you powerlevel it. I normally get dodging to the point where it takes 1,300 XP to get the next level ("expert", I think?) during character creation, and I have never once gotten a full level in dodging without specifically going out of my way to train it up.

[Intro1827]

Just want to say that as a legendary thrower, I've never been able to hit a prone target.