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[CapnSafety]

This is mainly a World Gen suggestion but it occurred to me that during a world generation, some styles of combat could have progressed much more than others, and that fighting style could have a bonus.  Where as the weapons that didn't get too much development would be at a disadvantage, or not exist entirely.  And maybe a step farther, make weapons and armor regional, but I could be taking this idea too far.

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"Regional" weapons don't exist (yet), but regional armour does - depending on how each civ is set up they'll have a random chance of getting each item they're set up to use (masks are UNCOMMON for goblins but RARE for humans; far fewer human civs will use masks than goblin civs). It's a little weak at the moment, yes, but it is there.

As for specific weapon usage and such: One would hope such would be covered with the above and some of the recent additions to the weapon system in the next version, but this'll eventually get into a discussion of procedural "advancement" (technological/cultural; we've already got procedural cultures of sorts in the works), which I'm sure has been discussed before.

[Footkerchief]

To give a little more perspective on the future of combat styles in DF, here are some in-depth remarks that Toady made a while back:

Spoiler: long quotes (click to show/hide)

When I get around to defining specific combat styles (not this release), the individual drills will be upgraded to practicing specific named strikes and more intricate routines most likely.  Another one of those things I'm looking forward to, especially if you can branch off and create your own when you're talented enough, much like breeding random critters in a wizard tower, he he he.  I guess you could create your own idiotic and ineffective style before you're talented, and it might be even worse than using no style at all.  That wouldn't stop you from charging people to learn, he he he.

Toady will there ever be some sort of mark that indicates that a martial art style; if it be a main style, a branch, or subset; is complete or complete as far as your skill is concerned? Will you ever be able to go back to an old "I don't know squat" style and fix it up?

Complete?  I don't understand.  I've never met a serious martial arts person that thought they were done with anything.  Do you mean applying new knowledge from new styles to moves that you learned before in old styles?  Or something about style construction?

What I mean is a sense that a martial art style is complete; ignoring subsets, alternate styles, and when applied to different mediums; not a martial artist being complete. So to rephrase: Will there be a sense in this game that a martial art style is complete or can it effectively end up with hundreds of moves, stances, and meditations and keep growing?
-Reminds me of an old phrase: Beware not the person who practiced a million moves once but the person who practiced one move a million times.

The Second aspect was, can you take an older style you created that was horrible, but lets say otherwise complete or not, and improve it and/or replace some of the aspects?

To add something (I am a horrible person) to it: In Martial Art styles will there be Fringe/esoteric moves or movesets, outside of alternate versions, that are not required for Mastery of the style but are available to those who need to learn it? Actually this could be expanded to will all martial arts be structured in a similar way with the same paths to learning it or can there be a martial art where the main style is in fact the basics and mastery is picking up one of the alternate styles or Subsets and another where the main style is all that is required for mastery and the subsets represent offshoots?

Yeah, I still don't quite get the first part.  A martial art can have a series of moves and so on, but people are always changing crap.  Certainly somebody could say it is done, and then somebody could change it later, which I guess is your second thing.  So you could take the Super Flying Kick school, created by some idiot adventurer, and have a student take it seriously and then refine the stupid signature move to make it less stupid, yeah, that's the sort of thing we have in mind in a very general sense.

I'm also not sure what you mean by mastery of the style -- in the sense of obtaining something like an entity-based rank?  Then yeah, the parameters for that could be whatever they are for any other entity position.  It might be a demonstration of a certain subset of moves, or how long you've been in an army, or it could be based on how much you can pay your instructor.  I'm guessing that the skills themselves would be specific-move-based with synergies on top of them for the overall stances and general move types etc., so in a practical sense, style mastery would just be having high skills in whatever moves and other disciplines the style has.

Also, there was at least one previous thread about combat styles, so those ideas should be taken into account here.

[Funk]

so strikes with difent body parts used
i.e. some fist types

• Plam
  has less risk of injury to the striker hand
• knifehand strike
  the old karate chop suitable targets are neck, the jugular, the throat, collar bones, vertebra, upper arm, the wrist (knife hand block), the elbow (outside knife hand block), and the knee cap (leg throw)
• reverse knife-hand,
  suitable targets include the mastoid muscles of the neck, the jugular, throat, nose, jaw, and the groin.
• Spear hand
  The ideal targets are the eyes and throat
• Hammerfist,
  the head,temples,nose,the wrist (for blocking punches), the sternum, and the ear
• Extended knuckle,
  attacks to pressure points, as the knuckles are much too fragile for percussive blows to other areas.

kicks are more fun but it is  harder to do kicks in a fight.
does any one see dwarfs doing

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The problem is that it's not clear how such "techniques" would be easily generated on-the-fly (which is really the point of this suggestion). We have seperate striking/wrestling/GRASP-based/STANCE-based attacks in the next version, but so long as tags such as GRASP and STANCE are the only way the game differentiates between applicable body parts, procedurally generating techniques would be impossible - how does the game tell the difference between a hand and a grasping pincer?