Is ranged combat to be expected in the future?

That is, are there any plans to include a mainly ranged skillset, or more ranged skills? I'm not talking about the near future (The new knighthood specializations held me off, thanks ), but just sometime in the distant future.

Thanks!

We don't answer questions about future design developments.
Doesn't anyone like to be surprised?

not really, i'd love to be able to make throwing axe's and use them, i'd give ya kayde to be your play toy if we could have throwing axe's.

Depends of the surprise

I'd like to be surprised with a new Druid skill.

We have been considering the possibility of implementing fully automatic M-60s as the 5th (ranged) specialization for warriors, and also allow ranged attacks for cities via nuclear ICBMs. We're just hung up on the issue of balance, particularly for how communes could counter the ICBM without adopting "city-folk technology".

Sweet. Just don't implement it till Hallifax and Gaudiguch come out

I don't.

omg! I had thought about Hallifax warriors using fully automatic M-60s, since they had advanced technology and stuff.

If that doesn't work out though, I'll be happy with boomerang ninja stars and flying shuriken (however you spell that)

Magic.

Nice.

Well, as far as I recall, the technology that led to ICBMs being developed pretty much stemmed from rocketry research that was done by German engineers after WWI to get around specific limitations that were put on their artillery in the Treaty of Versailles. Maybe I'm wrong.. I haven't studied this topic since like 9th grade.

In any case, war rockets were largely unheard of before then except for primitive forms used by some Chinese, I think, being that they sort of did invent gunpowder, right? So there you go, have commune-dwelling alchemists be able to cook up some kind of low-tech explosive. Obviously it won't have the same long-range capabilities, but you could make it far easier and cheaper to prepare, giving them a different edge to make up for it. For every nuke a city fires, they'll have to worry about 10 sabotuers planting powder-keg bombs in the sewers.

The M-60 specialization for warriors would be a pretty standard level upgrade I'd expect at this point for their archetype.

You forget one key aspect: Who actually bothers to learn sewers?

It's one of many obstacles on the way to tumble, so you get it anyway.

Roll

Not everyone wants to grow fur, Sylphas.

And wasn't there an ideas thread on how to improve sewers?

Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology. Serenwilde can just build a lunar base (that'll be the new trans skill in Moon, of course) and launch rocks from there. The moon, I'm told, is a harsh mistress.

As for Glomdoring, they will go farther into their catacombs and either become Eloi or Morlocks, or more likely, both. Should only take a few hundred thousand years.

roark you lied to me you told me by 5th specialization i would be able to fly my x-wing.

X wing and Nukes at the same time - both with be 5th.

I'm not too keen on the idea of flying around with pixies floating around me then suddenly getting knocked out of the sky by an x-wing. Something tells me that Regeneration and Allheale may be a little slow in curing the ailment from THAT.

As for Nukes vs nature, there's ALWAYS the cosmos. Want to see what a 25 inch radius meteor can do to Celest?