Weapon name: Shock-Bolt (because the bold being fired comes as a shock, read below

How many hands needed: epends on what type. Two-hands are however preferable for higher accuracy.

Weapon Base: Metal, although the bolts can be wood based

Projectile: Bolts (Possibly specially adapted)

Type of impact: Pierce, like any other arrow or bolt (poisoning or other effect optional.

What it looks like: It looks like a sword. Honestly! Exept that the sword has a hollow inside which contains a spring. IT also has a trigger on the hilt, which when pressed opens the tip of the swords and releases the spring to deliver a one time shot.

Strengths:
- Your enemy definately does not see this coming.
- Can be used as a sword too. This leads to...
- You do not need to re-equip if you are suddenly faced with melee combat.

Weaknesses:
- Only one shot.
- Not very accurate and less powerfull.
- Very slow loading.

Costs: It\'s slightly mechanical, so you need to keep it oiled. It\'s also a good idea to keep the sword straight, or your aim will be off.

I think that pickpocketing should be implemented, but restricted to deter griefers. Socrates\' idea for example was pretty good. Or you could have the stolen object be stolen totally randomly, with maybe the thief choosing wether he wants to steal gold or objects, and mybe at higher levels selecting from a few random objects. You could also make some kind of special compartment in backpacks or hidden under the clothes where some small objects could be stored and be totally immune from thieves.

What fun is the game without some risks? I\'ve read posts here where people refer to quest items being stolen (and the quest therefore being failed). That is stupid. You may have the item, but the quest isn\'t finished, and getting pickpocketed is no different from being killed by a monster. You just have to be carefull when handling quest items, consider it part of the quest to prevent the item being stolen.

HOW can you keep your eyes open its not like you can feel the other people coming or have eyes at the back of your head .

Actually, if you\'re in third-person view you do.

Also how do you know hes pick pocketing you its not like you have your eye on your inventory every second and he is just moving close to you.

What happens if someone is choosing something in a shop and doesnt even know he is getting pick pocketed!

Times when people are not paying attention to their belongings or distracted by something (like when they\'re buying stuff in a shop) are, even in RL, times when pickpocketing is most likely. Either be afriad to buy stuff, or risk that a thief is going to nick a for Tria (Just for the record, I am against thieving being so easy and so rewarding as to attract griefers).

[/quote]If someone took your belt how would you know it got stolen? Would you look ahead to see where you are going or look at your belt everywhere you go?
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I reckon you would feel if somebody tugged your belt off, and this would be visually represented in some way, like a message saying \"Somebody ripped your belt off\"

If there is pick pocketing then there will be no afking, choosing items from a shop and looking at your loot because you could be stolen from.

Well if the game allows AFKing then I probably won\'t be playing it. Again, you just have to take the odd risk. Actually, this could be an excellent way to stop people AFKing.

Even your friend could be stealing from you because you dont even know him/her. You could go and get something to eat and then he/she would try to pick pocket you and then when you come back and look at your inventory you see something gone and you tell your \"friend\" your friend then says \"oh i says a person walk by i think he was the person who stole it!\"  

You just have to trust your friends, what would be the point of playing otherwise, if you didn\'t trust anyone.

Punk. Basicly, if it\'s punk I\'ll listen to it. I even don\'t mind the new punk poppy stuff like Good Charlotte of New Found Glory, although it isn\'t exactly my cup of tea. Currently my favourite bands are NOFX, Pennywise and Bad Religion, I used to be a big fan of the Offspring and Greenday, but I\'ve discovered that some stuff is just better. I also listen to some stuff out of punk. Notable bands would be SUM 41, Linkin Park and Tool.

christian punk

Could you please enlighten me on what this is.

It could really give a \"feeling\" to certain places, and moreover, you could also make things this way : diaboli gain more experience in nasty places, but have some magical drawbacks near \"holy\" places and so on...

The Diaboli have an \'allergy\' to holy items. That does NOT make them evil!

I think this system would turn the game into a kind of strategy. Anyway, the landscape is not changed just because the big boss believes something (This is not LOTR). IF for example you had a guild that wants to usurp the land of all its resources (Which could be considered evil, depending on your stance towards Greenpeace opinions), then the land will look pretty shabby and worn out. If on the other hand the dominant guild(s) were nature lovers (read Hippys) then the land would look pretty nice, because they would rip out and screw up everything that they found.

Maybe a really powerfull guild, or a high concentration of guilds with a similar alignment, could cause a change in landscape. But I\'d leave this to the minimum. I don\'t want the landscape changing all the time and instantly just because of guild wars.

I think the word \'will\' could be scraped in favour of a word in another tense.

I\'m all for globalization. If it means I get stuff cheaper and at a better quality then hand-made stuff. The problem is, that it\'s turning into companies controlling the way we live. That\'s bad, especially when all the companies are under the thumb of the man himself, George Wanker Bush.

I\'m personally looking forward to making a living. Not sure what yet, but I don\'t want to be and Uber warrior. Uber warriors suck, anyway, I never managed to get a grip on killing stuff, even on a PC.

*Ponders why some clever guy doesn\'t make a DOS emulator for windows. That would run the games without nitpicky DOS stuff, and as a window program not a console, so you could do stuff like CopyPaste stuff back and forth.

But DOS can be downloaded for free and leagally...

How was Bill convinced t do that?!?!?!

For common genetic rules, an individual will have a prevailing race that will determine its physical traits. For this reason, the main races are relatively pure. In other words, it can\'t happen that the races merge together forming a single mixed race: if someone has a lemur father and an elf mother, he will belong to one race or to the other.

Explains it all. I think the Ynwynns are the only vague exception, being a cross of Diaboli and Dermorians. But I think the crossbreed was formed a long time ago and they are now an independant species.