Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[Kallin]

So, I started up an Adventurer just to test out how it works. For laughs, I made a Demigod level human, with all skill points put into biting. What I thought would happen would be that I would bite into various body parts and maybe rip off muscles or things. What I was not expecting was to find out how the description, "his teeth are tangled" makes sense.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

How does that even happen?

[Girlinhat]

teeth are actually a form of tentacle, with a piercing tip like a syringe.  They don't reside in the mouth, the mouth is just a gash in the head from with a host of Zoidbergian tentacles spew forth, several feet long and able to "latch" onto opponent body parts.

[Vindictus]

Technically, the body parts of a given creature are assembled somewhat accurately, but as the modeling system has no actual models or physics, or even relative size/distance, a rat could theoretically hold every part of a dragon in it's mouth at the same time.

Anyway, it's a bug. Hopefully, it'll be fixed when a new combat system is added.

[Girlinhat]

Actually, a rat can hold every part of a dragon upon every tooth at once.  The mouth isn't strictly needed.  Teeth could grow out of the chest and still function for biting.  The number of latch-able body parts is the number of teeth.  If you just have standard "teeth" you've got one.  If you've got "teeth" and "left eye tooth" and "right eye tooth" you've got 3.  Adding more individual teeth adds more limbs that can be bit at once!

[Sordid]

teeth are actually a form of tentacle, with a piercing tip like a syringe.  They don't reside in the mouth, the mouth is just a gash in the head from with a host of Zoidbergian tentacles spew forth, several feet long and able to "latch" onto opponent body parts.

Thanks a lot for that mental image.
Holy Christ.

[Wannazzaki]

Actually, a rat can hold every part of a dragon upon every tooth at once.  The mouth isn't strictly needed.  Teeth could grow out of the chest and still function for biting.  The number of latch-able body parts is the number of teeth.  If you just have standard "teeth" you've got one.  If you've got "teeth" and "left eye tooth" and "right eye tooth" you've got 3.  Adding more individual teeth adds more limbs that can be bit at once!

The Osmond family could BITE THE WORLD

[Girlinhat]

teeth are actually a form of tentacle, with a piercing tip like a syringe.  They don't reside in the mouth, the mouth is just a gash in the head from with a host of Zoidbergian tentacles spew forth, several feet long and able to "latch" onto opponent body parts.

Thanks a lot for that mental image.
Holy Christ.

The alternative is that any creature's body is like a long noodle or ribbon.  To bite multiple parts, you simply fold the ribbon over until the two parts overlap, and then bite.

You've got tentacle teeth or ribbon goblins.  Pick your poison.

[Andal]

teeth are actually a form of tentacle, with a piercing tip like a syringe.  They don't reside in the mouth, the mouth is just a gash in the head from with a host of Zoidbergian tentacles spew forth, several feet long and able to "latch" onto opponent body parts.

Thanks a lot for that mental image.
Holy Christ.

The alternative is that any creature's body is like a long noodle or ribbon.  To bite multiple parts, you simply fold the ribbon over until the two parts overlap, and then bite.

You've got tentacle teeth or ribbon goblins.  Pick your poison.

Bay12 Forums, your one stop shop for nightmare fuel on the internet!

[HmH]

teeth are actually a form of tentacle, with a piercing tip like a syringe.  They don't reside in the mouth, the mouth is just a gash in the head from with a host of Zoidbergian tentacles spew forth, several feet long and able to "latch" onto opponent body parts.

Thanks a lot for that mental image.
Holy Christ.

The alternative is that any creature's body is like a long noodle or ribbon.  To bite multiple parts, you simply fold the ribbon over until the two parts overlap, and then bite.

You've got tentacle teeth or ribbon goblins.  Pick your poison.

Interesting fact: If g, e and U all look like bent noodles, then ☺ looks like a cracker biscuit.

"Elf McSimba: But dad, don't we eat the crackers?
Elf McMufasa: Yes, Simba, but let me explain. When we overbrew, our bodies become the mushrooms, and crackers eat the mushrooms. And so we're all connected in the great Circle of Soup."

[OrionKale]

"Elf McSimba: But dad, don't we eat the crackers?
Elf McMufasa: Yes, Simba, but let me explain. When we overbrew, our bodies become the mushrooms, and crackers eat the mushrooms. And so we're all connected in the great Circle of Soup."

The Ciiiiiirrcleee of Soooooouuuuuup !

[uncanny soul]

You've got tentacle teeth or ribbon goblins.  Pick your poison.

can i pick both?

[peskyninja]

BRAINBLEACH NOW!

[G-Flex]

Technically, the body parts of a given creature are assembled somewhat accurately, but as the modeling system has no actual models or physics, or even relative size/distance, a rat could theoretically hold every part of a dragon in it's mouth at the same time.

Anyway, it's a bug. Hopefully, it'll be fixed when a new combat system is added.

This is wrong.

Relative size of body parts is modeled. Distance really isn't, and the game doesn't really care how big you are when you try to latch onto something, but the size of individual body parts and their tissue layers are in fact modeled.

I'm not sure what that has to do with the "tangled teeth" descriptor anyway. What even determines which descriptors apply to those body parts, anyway? "Tangled" doesn't show up in the raws, for example.

[Loud Whispers]

This is one bug I hope never gets fixed.

[Nyxalinth]

teeth are actually a form of tentacle, with a piercing tip like a syringe.  They don't reside in the mouth, the mouth is just a gash in the head from with a host of Zoidbergian tentacles spew forth, several feet long and able to "latch" onto opponent body parts.

Thanks a lot for that mental image.
Holy Christ.

Urist MacReady cancels getting drunk: Interrupted by Thing.

Actually, I'd always heard thst if someone's teeth are said to be tangled, they're very snaggle-toothed, with teeth so crooked they cross each other.