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[deepspaceprobe9]

SO i'm thinking of making a race for messing around in adventurer mode, and since I like to make my adventurers (mostly) moral, helpful people, I thought I'd take it to the logical conclusion. Kung-Fu Jesus.

With that in mind, what sort of abilities/tags/natural attacks should I give this thing? All i've got is martial trance and an ability that dramatically increases healing speed temporarily on a target.

[AceSV]

You could use inorganic tissues for body parts.  Bones of steel.  Skin of stone. 

[deepspaceprobe9]

According to rigorous research conducted by me, Jesus does not have inorganic tissues.^[1]
[1]South Park, Family Guy

[AceSV]

No, that was for the Kung-Fu part.  When you do Kung-Fu you can change your body into steel or rocks or water, just there's no reason to be water in Dwarf Fortress. 

[StupidElves]

No, that was for the Kung-Fu part.  When you do Kung-Fu you can change your body into steel or rocks or water, just there's no reason to be water in Dwarf Fortress.

So, he's Kung Fu Action Jesus?

[peasant cretin]

Instead of inorganic tissues, you could shrink your punch's contact area from 100 down to 50. It works quite nicely enough.

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[ATTACK:PUNCH:BODYPART:BY_TYPE:GRASP]
      [ATTACK_SKILL:GRASP_STRIKE]
      [ATTACK_VERB:punch:punches]

      This means that the attack will use as much of the available tissue as possible, rather than, say, thrusting with a spike.

      [ATTACK_CONTACT_PERC:100] ----> 50
      [ATTACK_PREPARE_AND_RECOVER:3:3]
      [ATTACK_FLAG_WITH]
      [ATTACK_PRIORITY:MAIN]

Modding your creature is not really different from modding weapons in regard to contact area, tick count, additional attacks, and flavor text.

[IndigoFenix]

Give him an extremely deadly interaction that can only target creatures with all of the standard monster immunities, as well as CAN_SPEAK.  Such attacks will work against demons, night creatures, vampires and werebeasts, but not ordinary creatures.  Call it Smite Evil.  Another interaction can target OPPOSED_TO_LIFE in order to return zombies to rest.

[Eric Blank]

Don't forget, it is possible to use a resurrection interaction to bring the innocent dead back to life. Couple it with a brief transformation into something benign, like a cat, to get that instant healing effect.

One can also heal people via transformations.

For kung-fu purposes, you might want something like a webbing interaction, to hold your opponents for easier smiting, and preventing them from reaching innocents until they're free of the webs. An interaction to simply fling vast numbers of chunks of platinum also sounds appetizing.
But seriously, you're going to want to make yourself tougher. Edit all tissues so that they heal rapidly, use a bone material as tough as slade so that hacking off limbs/breaking bones will be more difficult, and the same for fingernails so that you can scratch enemies to death if all else fail.

For natural skills I'm guessing it would be advantageous to be a legendary swimmer and climber, as well as legendary in unarmed fighting skills. youll want to be able to fly, breathe underwater (or better yet, not at all), be immune to extreme temperature, etc so that you can reach evildoers regardless of obstacles.

[Max™]

Just had to say: WHOK-A-CHIKOW! KUNG FU JESUS!

[Dozebôm Lolumzalìs]

...a brief transformation into ... a cat...

Ceiling Cat?