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[hector13]

I just thought of reactions with a cross-bow. If we no longer -have- to reload immediately I'm going to be an old world Doc Holiday. Just carry several pre-loaded x-bows and drop them after each shot! I fully expect whenever a warlord says he'll kill me I'll mumble "You're a daisy if you do."

The closest I can get currently is firing at a thrown enemy for a bit of skeet shoot or firing into a wrestled enemy.

I hope we can yank grabbed foes (or adjacent companions) into the flight path of incomming arrows....

... I think you just gave me the best idea for a reaction in DF ever.

Catching crossbow bolts out of the air and then throwing them back from whence they came.

God damn I can't tell you how badly I want to be able to do this. Brain some of my adventurers will you, Mr. Hide-Behind-The-Door crossbowstard, hm?

[Xantalos]

I swear this is the last movie reference - what if we could fire an arrow into the path of another arrow flying toward us, splitting it in half, a la R.E.D or Robin Hood?

[Devling]

I swear this is the last movie reference - what if we could fire an arrow into the path of another arrow flying toward us, splitting it in half, a la R.E.D or Robin Hood?

I don't think so.

Okay, so each creature has a size.
A binary size that has little correlation to real life.
A dwarf is not 3 feet tall, he is X big.

I imagine the best way to institute it would be the same as that but with speed.
Both for actions, and how quickly something comes at you.
A punch from a peasant will be thrown slower, and come at you slower, then a soldier.

[Loud Whispers]

What about talking someone into surrendering whilst they bleed to death? There would have to be a very fine system in place for this to work.

I'm not sure that would be a huge kink. I mean it makes sense that someone would surrender when they were near death and it makes sense that it may not be enough to save them.

Maybe you can get a medic skill in the future?
So if you nick someone in the neck you can make them surrender then apply first aid.

At some point in the hills of disappointment... The chief medical dwarf was gored by an elephant.
He would've died had he not performed surgery on himself there and then.
Just keep cutting.
He repeated it every day to himself, until finally he passed out from exhaustion.
Some bandits showed up, demanding his troll bone crown.
Just keep cutting he said to himself.

As they lay bleeding and defeated, he applied sutures and washed the wounds, letting them rest.
It would be a long day for them tomorrow after all.
He had to keep cutting.