Dungeon Fantasy/Monster Hunter Powers in Standard Games

[RyanW]

Originally Posted by Gnome

Off-Topic: Does anybody agree with me that some advantages are actually overpriced for DF? The most glaring example to me is Injury Tolerance: Homogenous, which appears on some racial templates and as GBF Its in DF5. In a world with guns, this advantage is worth the 40 points, because bullets usually do some kind of piercing damage. In a world with swords, I would feel pretty ****** paying 40 points and still getting my arms chopped off just the same...

It's not really a tech issue. Impaling and piercing damage have been the primary combat threats since it occurred to someone to start sharpening the sticks. Swords are just over represented compared to spears and arrows in most fantasy than is probably historically accurate.