Here are some ideas to add some flair to the game. Purely cosmetic, flame them if you like, adding to them would be even better.

1. Whenever someone you're fighting and they become "mortally wounded", you have a chance on the next hit to do a finishing move. Basically a regular melee hit that looks neat, like "seeing your enemy mortally wounded, you thrust your spear a final time through their skull."

2. More echoes for low-level gear to intimate its properties (would also be beneficial for newbie ragers)

3. Different echoes for kick, elbow, knee, and dirt kicking

4. Maybe an echo for when you would have parried, but aren't because you are not using a weapon (useful for newbies)

5. New echoes for missing skills other than just "miss", for skills like lash, bash, trip, etc.

>1. Whenever someone you're fighting and they become "mortally wounded", >you have a chance on the next hit to do a finishing move. Basically a >regular melee hit that looks neat, like "seeing your enemy mortally >wounded, you thrust your spear a final time through their skull."

H2H spec warriors get to do an uppercut, whereupon the enemy flies up into the air then falls through the ground into a pit of spikes.

In a fight, what I am interested in, is whether my or opponent's skill landed or missed.

For all the important skills, I use highlighters, so that I can see what happened without having to read the whole message.

If there is a hundred different echoes for my missed lash, it doesn't add anything to the game for me except for massive annoyance.
I'm still annoyed with the corpse I can't find because the word "corpse" is somewhere in the end of the string, but that I can cope with.

One and two may be neat though.

'Contrarywise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be: but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.'

n/t

I really like these!

Maybe a project for heroimms or a contest board thing to write the descriptions?