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[Sean Mirrsen]

There's hardly any use for this, but it IS a suggestions forum...

During the creation of my martial arts mod, an issue has come up with a weapon - any weapon, even accidentally acquired - automatically switching on default behavior for being "armed" resulting in giants grabbing a sock of yours, and starting to bash you with it, negating most of the point of having improved melee attacks.

Maybe have a special tag for weapons that allows attacking in melee while the weapon is held? I mean things like staves. Both hands will be occupied by the staff, and it will be possible to attack with the staff while still attacking with the legs. As well, any non-weapon item will invoke the same behavior when wielded - any attack not involving a bodypart occupied by a grasp or object will be available.

Also, on a similar topic - why do creatures deadly by design attempt to grab you, as opposed to just whacking away, despite having no "grasp"?

[Draco18s]

Oh, but removing the "tears off your pants and beats you with them" would mean that adventurers can't be beaten to death with their own masterwork deer leather pants!
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[Sean Mirrsen]

I didn't say "don't attack with improvised weapons". I said "attack normally despite having an improvised weapon". You would still be bashed with your own trousers periodically, but you will at the same time be punched/kicked/bitten/whatever melee attacks the creature has.

And, while I'm at it. Another tag suggestion, this time catering to the more bizarre modding possibilties.

[ATTACK:MAIN:BYTOKEN:LLA:shoot:shoots:0:1:HEAT][ATTACKFLAG_WITH_NOYOU][ATTACKFLAG_RANGED:CROSSBOW:dart:1:4:PIERCE][ATTACKFLAG_NOTARGET]

With_noyou means a message like "the something attacks with its something" instead of "the something attacks you with its something" that is used in conjunction with the following. Can be split into normal "with" and additional "noyou".
Notarget is from my previous suggestion on combat modification.
The ranged flag syntax is [flag:skill :projectile:damage:damage:damagetype].

The use of it is fairly self-explanatory. Apart from mecha and the like, allows to have spitting snakes and insects shooting darts.

[Armok]

I agree whit the first post but not the second.

I would also want to have an [EXTRACT_PAIN] tag for venomous creatures. (causing strong pain on inject, naturally)

[Sean Mirrsen]

I'll repost the issue into the bug reports sometime, but for now I'll bump this one.

On the subject of extract tags...  why can skeletons be paralyzed? Also, ironmen and bronze colossi? I understand that skeletons, as such, are just a template that bases off normal creatures, but I though that the poison/paralysis issue was more thought through, since all the others (pain, stunning, bleeding, exhaustion) are accounted for. Ironmen and colossi I fixed in the said martial arts mod.