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[Random_Dragon]

Legs are heavier, so 100 contact perc gives more force than 100 contact perc on an arm. It's not huge, I usually mod them so kicks have more velocity with slower recover, better prepare though since they're longer, you can hit with a kick before you can with a punch.

Just from looking at the vanilla values, I totally forgot there were scratch attacks, I removed those and all the "slaps with the flat" attacks due to being stupid.

scratching seems better if you have claws though. Plus even humans are more likely to draw blood when scratching than when punching, which has its uses.

[Max™]

Yeah, but the way the game picks edged attacks more than blunt even if listed as secondary priority just bugs me, I left it for animals and animal people.

Speaking of which, animal people have kisat dur options which others don't.

I mostly use vanilla kicks for flavor, since punching someone in the head while grappling their leg is silly.

Having the attacks more distinct though, I use kicks when I specifically want to crush/knock someone away, I use punches for quick recovery and gut popping (edged property), I use elbows when I'm in the middle of a pile of enemies or want to knock someone back without sending them across the screen, and I use knees to smush faces or for a bit more forceful elbow type strike.

[IndigoFenix]

Scratching is pretty effective, even for humans (actually I think it's exactly the same regardless of species, aside from overall body size).  The game seems to calculate the nail as being the same size as the entire finger, so scratches are basically like stabbing with little stilettos.  You can regularly sever tendons and nerves with them.  They generally aren't as effective as bites though.

[Broseph Stalin]

Fundamentals

Spoiler: Combat Levels (click to show/hide)

Brawl: A fight abiding by Duchess of Queenshill Rules. Every adventurer, warrior, and quarrelsome drunk inherently knows the rules of a brawl. Punches, Scratches, Kicks, grabs, throws, and pinching are all fair game. Locks, Choking, Biting, and weapons are not allowed. All participants in a brawl are bound by these terms until one combatant breaks them and escalates the conflict.
If a fighter hits the ground they are typically left alone until they stand back up. This sometimes leads to situations where a fighter will refuse to stand up but continue hitting their opponent. As a result attacking a downed opponent does not technically count as an escalation but this is considered very gauche by distinguished tavern brawlers.
Nonlethal: Usually the result of a robbery or a brawler refusing to abide by the Duchess of Queenshill Rules. The main difference is that the fight will continue even if one fighter falls down. 
Lethal: The combatants are out to kill each other. Weapons and the full array of combat tactics are in play. Using a bite, lock, or choke during a brawl will instantly escalate the fight to lethal.
No Quarter: Often the result of one combatant faking surrender, the fighters swear to continue until one of them is dead.

Spoiler: Basic Attacks (click to show/hide)

Punches: Make a fist and hit them with it. Break bones, sprain muscles, smash body parts. This basic attack can be used effectively in tavern brawls or deadly battles.
Kicks: Use the extra power of the legs to deliver a heavier blow. Slower to use and harder to recover from than a punch. Like the punch the kick can be used without escalating a fight.
Scratches: An effective way of destroying clothing or drawing blood. A scratch can do serious damage to the muscles or nerves. The scratch is very effective against unclothed opponents such as animals or animal people.
Grabs: The starting point of all wrestling maneuvers. The grab can be used to initiate a more complicated move, catch an incoming blow, to hold an enemy still, or to gain control of a weapon or piece of armor. The grab can be used comfortably in a brawl.
Throws: Grab an enemy and use leverage to throw them. Depending on the relative size of the enemy and the strength of the practitioner this may either bring the enemy to the ground stunned or send them hurtling through the air. This move can be used in a brawl.
Pinches: After grabbing an enemy it’s possible to crush the grabbed body part or extremities attatched to it. This can be exceedingly painful and can convince an enemy to surrender.
Locks: After grabbing an enemy it’s possible to lock their joints into an uncomfortable position and then using your strength bend that joint in a way it wasn’t intended to bend. This can disable the limb and cause severe pain.
Chokehold: After grabbing the throat a practitioner can tighten the grip into a chokehold preventing oxygen from reaching the lungs. If the practitioner tightens their grip even further they can strangle the opponent cutting off the flow of blood and causing unconsciousness, and if continued death.
Bites: A successful bite can be devastating. Biting has the same flesh and clothing ripping effect of scratching. If a practitioner hangs after a successful bite they can shake to do further damage. Biting is frowned upon in anything less than a life or death struggle.

Spoiler: Zones of Attack (click to show/hide)

Limbs: The arms and legs. Legs are necessary to stand and kick, arms are necessary to hold weapons and punch. Damaging the muscles with a scratch or bite disables the effected limb. Breaking a bone with a lock, punch, or kick has the same effect and can cause significant pain. A powerful strike to an extremity can cause pulling and twisting that may tear muscle even if the impact is stopped by armor.
Extremities: The hands and feet. They share the same structural importance of their associated limbs but are smaller and therefore easier to damage. The extremities are more prone to being crushed by a punch or kick and the wrists and ankles can be damaged by twisting and pulling fairly easily. The fingers and toes can further be targeted by pinching attacks and crushed causing terrible pain.
Lower Body: Guts go here. The lower body contains soft and important tissues with no bones to protect them. A blunt impact to this region can bruise the guts. Fighters are generally less effective when they’re struggling to keep down their breakfast.
Upper Body: Lungs, Heart, and Ribs. The ribs protect the lungs and heart but can only do so much. A hard impact can bruise a lung causing it to collapse and stop functioning properly. Two collapsed lungs is a death sentence. A bruise to the heart is very unpleasant and might feel mortal but it is actually fairly harmless. With enough force the ribs can be turned against the organs they exist to protect. A hard blow to the upper body can shatter the ribs and drive the fragments into the heart or lungs. A puncture to the heart is always fatal to anything that can bleed to death. If the practitioner manages to crush the entire upper body the result is instant death.
Neck: The neck offers two weak points. The spine houses the spinal cord and a severe impact can cause paralysis and death. The throat houses major arteries, a blow that tears or smashes the throat can destroy those arteries and cause fatal bleeding to even the largest of adversaries. There is no rigid protection for the neck. This means that even the most prepared opponent can be taken down with techniques that target the neck.
Head: The head houses the brain, damage to the brain is instantly fatal to anything that needs a brain. A punch or kick can destroy the skull resulting in instant death. A decent helmet blocks most punches or kicks but the impact to the head twists the neck and can sever the spine if done effectively. The head houses the teeth and eyes, teeth can be knocked out and eyes can be gouged out or struck hard enough to bruise or burst.

Spoiler: Status Effects (click to show/hide)

Nauseous: Nausea halves the speed of a fighter. Nausea is usually the result of a blow to the guts.
Winded: Being winded halves the speed of a fighter. Being winded is usually the result of a blow to the lungs or spinal damage.
Stunned: Being stunned halves the speed of a fighter and makes their attempts to attack and defend less successful. Being stunned can be the result of a charge, throw, or blow to the head.
Prone: Being prone reduces the speed of a combatant. Being prone can be the result of leg or foot injuries or a successful takedown or throw.
Unconscious: Being unconscious preempts any attack, defense, or movement. Attacks against unconscious enemies are guaranteed to hit and guaranteed to land flush. Unconsciousness usually means the fight is over or about to be.
Blind: Blindness makes the opponent difficult to find and attacks unlikely to hit. Blindness is usually caused by one combatant gouging out the eyes of another.
Hungry/Thirsty/Drowsy: Every fight has the potential to result in permanent injury or death. If you’re hungry thirst or sleepy it might not be the best time for a scrape.

Here's what I'm working with right now.

[Eric Blank]

You should also add gouges to your list of attacks and combat levels; gouges will immediately escalate a fight as well.

[Random_Dragon]

Yus. Now how best to seque this into some of the exploits, like grabjump? owo

[Broseph Stalin]

Spoiler: Defense (click to show/hide)

Defense
Combat is always dangerous, even in a friendly brawl there’s the potential for a deadly injury.The chief principle of Kisat Dur is to end fights and disable opponents as quickly as possible. Remember: You probably have to live with being injured longer than they will. To that end defense is mostly focused on crippling or killing the enemy before they have a chance to hurt you. There are really only two keys to defense in Kisat Dur, Dodging and Sodel Ar. Both of these techniques should be used to set up attacks.
Dodge
Dodging serves two purposes, not only does it get you out of the way of attacks it also allows you to outmaneuver your enemy. Dodging can create the distance you need to catch your breath in a long engagement or just frustrate the hell out of the enemy. If you’re faster than your opponent or opponents you can dodge around the battlefield staying one step ahead of them and driving them to exhaustion. When the enemy is tired they slow down and may collapse or even black out. A well timed dodge can also be used to gain a better attack position.

Zimeshabod (Phantom Strike)
This technique is all about using dodging to put yourself in a more advantageous position.

Here the practitioner is attacked by an unarmed elf. The dwarf faces north and the elf faces south.

The dwarf dodges a clumsy punch and moves to the northwest.

The elf is still facing south but the dwarf isn’t there anymore.

By the time the elf sees the fist coming his nose has been shortened. This punch to the nose could have been any attack, an enemy can’t block an attack they didn’t see. 


Sodel Ar (Shield of Flesh)

Sodel Ar is the shield of flesh, it’s using a grapple (usually with an open hand) to catch an incoming blow. Sodel Ar is popular in tavern brawls but it is incredibly versatile. Sodel Ar CANNOT stop a bite, scratch, or a grapple but that’s the extent of its limitations. Armed enemies, wild animals, beasts, anything that makes a basic attack can have Sodel Ar used against them.
 
Here the practitioner is attacked by a giant. Our practitioner weighs 85 Urists, the Giant tips the scales at 12,621 almost 150 times heavier. You’d have to very confident or very foolish to wrestle this creature. Threatened with a fist twice his size the most obvious thing to do is dodge.

The practitioner doesn't do the most obvious thing. With a mix of technique, a mastery of basic physics, and sheer dwarven willpower he tries to grab the incoming fist with his own much smaller hand.

It works. The giant was not ready for that, it spends a moment recovering from throwing the punch and from the shock of what it's just witnessed. This is Sodel Ar.

Stotabod (Surprise Strike, or Sucker-Punch)

A practitioner should never rest on simple defense. With the Giant recovering from it's failed attack the time is ripe to inflict as much damage as possible. The Stotabod is a technique that employs a simple strike against an enemy that's been thrown off balance by Sodel Ar.

The giant was definitely not ready for that. He easily breaks the practitioner's grip but the blow rocks him and now that he's stunned he's ripe for a followup.

Here as in any fight the difference between life and death is one good punch. A chokehold can finish of the unconscious brute and our practitioner can drink for free anywhere in the world with the story of how he killed a giant with his bare hands.

Yus. Now how best to seque this into some of the exploits, like grabjump? owo

One of the big problems I had in the original manual was how to organize stuff. I think I'm going to put together a section on Advanced Techniques that includes the basic slams then include the weapon grab slams in the disarming section.

[leafbarrett]

I've found the slam to actually be very effective in a couple situations. One is when chasing a fleeing opponent that you're struggling to catch up to - a sprinting leap will cover the distance and crash into the enemy. Even if they aren't injured, you'll still be able to run up to them before they land and be ready to attack immediately, and they'll often be stunned as well.
The other is when an ally is getting hammered by one or more opponents and you're not immediately nearby to help - since jumping moves so quickly, leaping from a distance instead of just sprinting to close the gap can get you into the fray immediately and sometimes knock one or more attackers away, taking the pressure off of the ally. This is more important if you're actually concerned with keeping companions alive, like I am, as it does put you at risk should it fail, but it does its job in a pinch.

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

Out of curiosity, just how practical is it to perform these moves in reality?  I would find it hilarious if a practical fighting style was developed due to a video game.

[Random_Dragon]

Out of curiosity, just how practical is it to perform these moves in reality?  I would find it hilarious if a practical fighting style was developed due to a video game.

I suspect the end result will be hilarity, regardless of how well it goes.

[peasant cretin]

Out of curiosity, just how practical is it to perform these moves in reality?  I would find it hilarious if a practical fighting style was developed due to a video game.

I suspect the end result will be hilarity, regardless of how well it goes.

Kisat Dur was very effective during previous versions (biting, punching, scratching and wrestling have always been overpowered), but now with the effects of shear force damage it'll be even better and with even more hilarity. DF has never really had " 'tis but a scratch!"

[Broseph Stalin]

Out of curiosity, just how practical is it to perform these moves in reality?  I would find it hilarious if a practical fighting style was developed due to a video game.

I never practiced any martial arts but I've read a lot of military combat manuals and I don't see it being particularly effective. The thing is that DF is super abstract in some places so the instructions for Kisat Dur are a lot more helpful in game than they would be in life. Like Asasokab, you catch a punch, make it a wrist lock, and snap the wrist. There's a lot of stuff you need to know to make that happen. You also have a lot fewer concerns in DF. If you punch someone in the helmet so hard that the whiplash snaps their neck then your hand is no longer going to look or function like a hand.

[Random_Dragon]

I was gonna say that yeah, it's maybe decent for illuminating the fundamentals like "joint locks are good for your health" and "don't forget that fingernails can really fucking hurt" and such. However. One, it doesn't translate from "what do I do?" to "how do I do that?" and two, you don't need Kisat Dur to get that sort of basic understanding. XP

[peasant cretin]

Out of curiosity, just how practical is it to perform these moves in reality?  I would find it hilarious if a practical fighting style was developed due to a video game.

I suspect the end result will be hilarity, regardless of how well it goes.

Kisat Dur was very effective during previous versions (biting, punching, scratching and wrestling have always been overpowered), but now with the effects of shear force damage it'll be even better and with even more hilarity. DF has never really had " 'tis but a scratch!"

Huh, I just completely misread all that...well that's pretty normal.

[leafbarrett]

Öndin Abod (Fade Strike)
When fighting a large cluster of enemies at once, you may find that you can't even get a strike in because incoming attacks from all sides are forcing you to jump around constantly. Öndin Abod is a technique allowing you to guarantee a chance at an attack, while also avoiding these incoming attacks.


The first thing to note is that even the most inexperienced fighter can make use of this technique. You don't need to know how to read your opponent extensively.


Choose your target as normal, but before confirming your attack, make sure you have selected multi-attack with [z]. Confirm your desired attack.


[A]ttack the enemy again, but this time, select Dodge. The direction you dodge in is entirely your choice - move in whatever direction you feel works best in the situation.


Lastly, act with [,] or [.].


As you can see, even though the opponent acted first and attacked, I was able to avoid his strike and land a hit of my own, whereas under normal circumstances, jumping away from that attack, either automatically or manually, would have required me to forfeit my chance at attacking. Öndin Abod works no matter how many attacks are aimed at you, and works just as well when armed as when unarmed.

_{...if someone's already said this one, sorry.}