Yay!

There should be a special reaction if you bring a tame Lobh-Se to Elpuri's level. Probably a fullscreen message about the two of them first setting an eye on each other and then an instant spark - they fall in love on the first sight, two horrible and horribly lonely monsters. Then the player is presented with a [Y/n] prompt whether he will allow them to remain together. If the player agrees, both Elpuri and Lobh-Se are moved to a neutral team.

This would be a pretty cool and heart-warming story, IMHO. And not really game-breaking or overpowered by making the GC boss neutral, because you a) need to get tame Lobh-Se and bring her all the way to Dark Level and b) won't kill Elpuri, thus not getting his head and preventing you from Freedom ending unless you afterwards fight both Lobh-Se and Elpuri to get the head. However, you could use it to cicrumvent Elpuri and go directly down to Oree, but then you need to fear the lower GC more than Elpuri, really.

They have both flags, so probably yes.

Now that I'm thinking about it, a quick and dirty fix for axes would be to move halberds into Axe skill. They look like huge axes, orcs could all have the same skill and Mjolak would be an axe.

Not only teeth - heavy damage or crits could destroy your eyes or teeth if they hit head, fingers if they hit arms, toes if they hit legs, nuts (male only) if they hit groin, maybe breasts (female only) if they hit torso. Loosing all eyes would obviously mean blindness, loosing all fingers on one hand would mean no wielded weapon or ring, loosing toes would affect your movement speed, dodging and maybe balance, making you occasionally fall. Nuts and breasts would only affect your wo/manliness.

You're making me think about more subsystems I can't code.

I get that. I hope I fixed everything except for the lines for Sir Lancelyn and the female prisoner, which I don't think need changing. But that's for Serin to decide.


Well, I would obviously like to see my PR merged, so I'm too biased to cast a vote.

Yeah, it does. It will take time, though...


Try this one. Extremely spoilerly, still relevat for the current version and very, very good.

June is somewhat out of question, so... do we have some release date to aim towards?

Both what chaostrom is saying and what I mentioned in my first bullet point - right now, you are not actually hit that often in combat; most blows just get blocked. When you are hit, you can die in very few attacks. Thus changing the block ratio for weapons might be hard to balance in a way that both makes shields worthwhile but doesn't make using a shield a requirement unless you want to die to everything.

My suggestion for shields decreasing the amount of stamina needed to block attacks is aimed primarily on making heavier shield worth it. I would love to see metal shield and the like be more useful.

Perhaps, but I was thinking of them as a kind of "weapon" for unarmed combat. Thus you can earn several and switch between them as situation demands, but you can only be using one at a time. This both makes unarmed exciting as you can try several different combat styles by simply changing your stance, and allows for situational stances that you want to be using only sometimes. Balancing it would of course be a concern, but armed combat still has artifacts and enchantments, which weight heavily in its favour.