![]() ADRENALINE WORKS AGAINST YOU WHEN YOU FIGHT.A character in a fist fight for the eighth time that week is going to respond a little differently. A character in a fist fight for the first time is going to take a few hits before their survival instinct kicks in and they start hitting back. Think about how long your character has been fighting. This is pretty much the brain’s way of telling you “get the fuck out of here or we’re gonna die.” Experienced fighters have trained to suppress this. Everyone has something called a “flinch response” when they fight.Unless you’re trying to put distance between you so you can shoot them or something, don’t throw them. You’re giving them the chance to get up and run away. ![]() Throwing your opponent across the room is really not all that smart.An arrow wound demands medical attention. Most of the time the head of the arrow will break off inside the body if you try pulling it out, and arrows are built to pierce deep. Arrows are very effective and you can’t just yank them out without doing a lot of damage.It’s exhausting work and unless you have a lot of training and history with hand-to-hand combat, you’re going to tire out really fast. Hand-to-hand fights usually only last a matter of seconds, sometimes a few minutes.There’s a very good reason free-runners dive and roll. Sticking a landing will royally fuck up your joints and possibly shatter your ankles, depending on how high you’re jumping/falling from. ![]() Helpful things for action writers to remember Discretion advised.Īn exceedingly useful list of lists for writers. Here are descriptions of the various methods used for the death penalty. Here is a website with information about forensic science and cases of death. Here is a website with a ton of (legally attained, don’t worry) information about the black market. Here is a bunch of Greek legends, including monsters, gods, nymphs, heroes, and so on. Here is a page for legendary creatures and their regions of origin. Here is a page of just about every conceived superpower. Here is a page for premodern weapons, broken down into a ton of subcategories, with the weapon’s region of origin. I was getting pretty fed up with links and generators with very general and overused weapons and superpowers and what have you for characters so:
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