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[Demonic Gophers]

Eh, it won't kill them, anyway, just render 'em unconscious.  Strangling is a lot more efficient - easier to repeat, too.

[Kagus]

Pinching gives experience even when the enemy is down and unconscious.  Please note that pinching inflicts a pathetically small amount of pain, so even with relatively small creatures it will take several turns of repeated pinching before they finally black out.

However, if you happen to be a modded-in bronze colossus adventurer, it's great fun to find a giant rat and pinch its nose until it keels over.

[cowofdoom78963]

At first I thought that "pinching" someone is like pinning them on the floor,or some wrestling move, I dident know it was literally pinching someone.

[umiman]

I don't know where people got that whole "people lying down don't give experience" thing. I know that when I cripple something so it can't stand up and then break every other limb in the body, I gain a lot of wrestling exp.

In fact, my little living god adventurer made a habit of standing around with a shield in the middle of a pack of beak dogs and letting all of them futilely attempt to hurt him until they all passed out from exhaustion then kill them. The one time I did it with a pike, I went from no skill to dabbling after taking them out while they're out.

[Jetman123]

At first I thought that "pinching" someone is like pinning them on the floor,or some wrestling move, I dident know it was literally pinching someone.

Pinching isn't just pinching someone - it's pinching their nerve centers and pressure points. If you're properly trained, both in real life and in DF, you can cause _serious_ pain by pinching the right spot on the nerves close to the skin.

Just in case there was any confusion. I don't mean to sound condescending.

[cowofdoom78963]

At first I thought that "pinching" someone is like pinning them on the floor,or some wrestling move, I dident know it was literally pinching someone.

Pinching isn't just pinching someone - it's pinching their nerve centers and pressure points. If you're properly trained, both in real life and in DF, you can cause _serious_ pain by pinching the right spot on the nerves close to the skin.

Just in case there was any confusion. I don't mean to sound condescending.

Nah, you didn't sound condescending

but still my old multi-legendary wrestler pinched animials, it didn't do anything.
But I never really payed much attention to it.

I guess I will just have to make another one and see much it can do.

[LumenPlacidum]

I don't know where people got that whole "people lying down don't give experience" thing.

It's true if you're using a weapon.  For wrestling, it doesn't matter; you'll gain experience if they're unconscious.

[Jetman123]

At first I thought that "pinching" someone is like pinning them on the floor,or some wrestling move, I dident know it was literally pinching someone.

Pinching isn't just pinching someone - it's pinching their nerve centers and pressure points. If you're properly trained, both in real life and in DF, you can cause _serious_ pain by pinching the right spot on the nerves close to the skin.

Just in case there was any confusion. I don't mean to sound condescending.

Nah, you didn't sound condescending

but still my old multi-legendary wrestler pinched animials, it didn't do anything.
But I never really payed much attention to it.

I guess I will just have to make another one and see much it can do.

One pinch won't do much, but the second, third, fourth or fifth will definitely do at least something.

[Ioric Kittencuddler]

[valcon]

must've been another crossbowdwarf on the grass knoll

[SmileyMan]

Nah, internal ribcage ricochet.  Happens all the time for real, although possibly not quite to that extent.

[RebelZhouYuWu]

I think he was already dead by the time his heart was peirced

[Klendt]

Nah, you didn't sound condescending

but still my old multi-legendary wrestler pinched animials, it didn't do anything.
But I never really payed much attention to it.

I guess I will just have to make another one and see much it can do.

Odd. I knocked out a quartet of wolves with my wrestler human's pinch when I first started out without taking any hits. It did take some repetition, though.

So the first hydra I went after I did so with my master lasher. I had absolutely no luck getting through his hide.
He, by contrast, was being met with great success penetrating my kneecaps. So, being hobbled, I try to crawl away into the nearby pond to escape. No such luck. He steps onto me, latches onto my head, and tears it free on the second shake.

Another time, when I was feeling particularly ballsy, I was off lifting weapons from inattentive (sleeping) goblins. That's generally how I level my sneaking skills. That didn't go so well, because only one of them was sleeping anyways. As usual, the first thing to go wrong is the biggest. That weaponmaster guy was definately not asleep. I get knocked over and can't get back up somehow. Must have been a broken/severred leg or something. A pair of gobbo drunks start getting all touchy feely. One of them grabs my right upper arm and the other grabs my remaining foot (after fumbling about on my chest for a bit, the deviant.) The next hit landed on me cuts me in twain. That's some hardcore execution stuff right thurr.

I wish MY drunks were even remotely that useful, even if it is just by making things more dramatic.

[Jetman123]

I think he was already dead by the time his heart was peirced

SHE. It's a harpy.

[Asehujiko]

Wasn't it a Chaplain that had an awesome synch kill on that Bloodthirster?

Anyway: Me vs ettin, weapon gets stuck, naked mole dog shows up,i punch him in the head and instagib it. The ettin later died by strangulation. not much of a "FATALITY!" style execution but more of a "fuck off, i'm busy" swatting aside an enemy minion during an important fight.