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Re: Pinching causes extreme damage?
« Reply #15 on: April 05, 2010, 10:55:28 pm »

Only the insanely awesome ones, that's how many.

I mean, how does that even work? Doesn't pinching apply the same force both directions? If anything it would go straight up!

Wait...  :o
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Re: Pinching causes extreme damage?
« Reply #16 on: April 05, 2010, 11:35:15 pm »

I pinched a cougar's head many, many times, to no effect.

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Re: Pinching causes extreme damage?
« Reply #17 on: April 05, 2010, 11:38:59 pm »

I pinched a cougar's head many, many times, to no effect.
Then that would mean... You were a dirty hippie! Only they could not perform the dreaded DEATH PINCH!!!!!
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Re: Pinching causes extreme damage?
« Reply #18 on: April 05, 2010, 11:57:50 pm »

A human can only do it if they're unconscious, and possibly only if they're a grandmaster wrestler.  You have to be really strong to tear someone in half, and not even a bronze colossus can rip off limbs for some reason.  It can, however, snap them like twigs, ripping them open and causing massive fractures and heavy bleeding.
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Re: Pinching causes extreme damage?
« Reply #19 on: April 06, 2010, 05:11:14 am »

I went to try that pinching thing out, after that I picked the head up and left the dwarf to her own devices.

While I'm off doing my own thing in the arena I see this

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Re: Pinching causes extreme damage?
« Reply #20 on: April 06, 2010, 06:04:55 am »

I went to try that pinching thing out, after that I picked the head up and left the dwarf to her own devices.

While I'm off doing my own thing in the arena I see this

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It's a zombie head. Your dwarf is having his zombie head cannibalize the living hippie.
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Re: Pinching causes extreme damage?
« Reply #21 on: April 06, 2010, 07:29:25 am »

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You have to be really strong to tear someone in half, and not even a bronze colossus can rip off limbs for some reason.

Are you sure?  I was able to rip off hands and feet as a "somewhat weak" human.

Hm.  It appears that hands, feet, fingers, toes, ears, nose, and head are all that can be ripped off.
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Re: Pinching causes extreme damage?
« Reply #22 on: April 06, 2010, 07:39:07 am »

I went to try that pinching thing out, after that I picked the head up and left the dwarf to her own devices.

While I'm off doing my own thing in the arena I see this

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My first adventurer was killed by a swarm of elves. My next adventurer picked him up, and the corpse is accumulating a very large number of kills. It seems anything can get embedded in wounds in this version.
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Re: Pinching causes extreme damage?
« Reply #23 on: April 06, 2010, 08:56:32 am »

I went to try that pinching thing out, after that I picked the head up and left the dwarf to her own devices.

While I'm off doing my own thing in the arena I see this

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My first adventurer was killed by a swarm of elves. My next adventurer picked him up, and the corpse is accumulating a very large number of kills. It seems anything can get embedded in wounds in this version.

Anything can get embedded in wounds in real life, too. It's just a matter of jamming it in hard enough.
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Re: Pinching causes extreme damage?
« Reply #25 on: April 06, 2010, 10:27:51 am »

In Dwarf Fortress everybody is giant scorpion.
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Re: Pinching causes extreme damage?
« Reply #26 on: April 06, 2010, 11:21:36 am »

Yeah, I laughed so hard the first time I saw a wrestler twisting a set of steel chain leggins around in her target's lower body.
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Re: Pinching causes extreme damage?
« Reply #27 on: April 06, 2010, 01:49:25 pm »

Size difference has a significant effect on wrestling, regardless of skill.  Unskilled bronze colossus v. unskilled kobold took one turn to pull the head off, whereas a full-skilled human takes a few turns to pull the head off an unskilled elf.

Also, pinching a kobold's arm did cause it to come off.  It's hard to catch those little guys...
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Re: Pinching causes extreme damage?
« Reply #28 on: April 06, 2010, 01:59:23 pm »

The whole pinching off things bigger than a nose doesn't seem to be working for my legendary superdwarvenly strong adventurer  :-[. Is there a secret to it? Are my targets being the same size as myself causing this?
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Re: Pinching causes extreme damage?
« Reply #29 on: April 06, 2010, 02:49:57 pm »

I think the target must be weaker than you. Go find some human children.
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