Questions tagged [self-defense]
For questions about the prevention of personal harm or injury, especially through the reciprocal use of physical force, in a set of given circumstances. Contrast with the broader "protection," the process of keeping objects or places safe.
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How would medieval people defend themselves from Simswines?
If you’ve seen any of my previous questions on Algennon’s fantastic and deadly ecosystem, you might know the drill: first a monster gets designed, then strategies to defend against it. But we’ve moved ...
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How can medieval people defend their societies from Vanilla Puddings?
Puddings are a common strain of monsters that run amok on my fantasy world of Algernon. These slug-like creatures are about the size of a human head. Each species of pudding has a vibrant colour and ...
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How can medieval people defend their settlements against Licorice Puddings?
I’m back with a question about the monsters of Algennon, a fantasy setting full of magic and danger. This question is about a member of the Pudding family (sluglike creatures that vary greatly in ...
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How can medieval people defend their settlements from Peasoupers (giant acid slugs)?
Yet another question about the world of Algennon and its many monsters, this one concerning Peasoupers. Basically, they are bright green slime-covered slugs the size of a human head. They have two ...
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How can medieval peope defeat an army of volleyball-sized, armored, fire-breathing crabs? [closed]
In the world of Algennon humans are at a worldwide societal level equivalent to the Middle Ages. Humans also are divided into two subspecies: the Bellators (homo sapiens bellator) and the Plebeians (...
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How to not be controlled by text
In a medieval-fantasy world, the magic exists by imbuing mana into symbols. The symbols can be written, declaimed or even thought, to cast the spell. A formula can store any non-meta spell you can ...
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Does spraying oxytocin in the face of a ferocious dragon pacify it?
Instead of a pepper spray I like to adopt a more friendly approach towards hostile animal such as a fridge sized dragon, with an aerosol spray containing oxytocin of course. I think this chemical can ...
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Can this "headgear" be used for defense even if woven and curved sideways?
I really like this concept for headgear and I was wondering about their use. Since I plan on designing a creature with similar headgear.
My theory is that due to the way they are bent they don't have ...
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How to best defend against someone with a knife while unarmed? [closed]
My main character is experienced at fist fighting, though is self taught. At 18, he travels to a city in an industrial era time period (circa 1820 - 1850) to find work, but upon arriving there, is ...
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How can my eco-hippies build a taser to down a polar bear?
I have some radical environmentalists as some of my characters. They don't want to kill any living thing, but they live in an area where the polar bear population is anomalously high, and attacks are ...
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What weapons would fossorial people use?
The fossorial people are similar to humans. They are around 3ft tall as adults. Their limbs are far stronger, and their hands and feet are larger, with the fingers being shorter and more robust, and ...
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Feasibility of Energy-Absorbing Shields
So, I was looking at what defines the most interesting type of forcefields, and there came an interesting kind of forcefields that, rather than deflecting or dispersing energy, seems to absorb energy. ...
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how well would a magical scale armor-strength cloak work as armor?
the cloak covers most of the body, usually down to a foot above the ground.
it's stiff enough and built to sort of spread out as it gets lower at a constant rate, and underneath the cloak is the ...
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How would a real life force field work?
Requirements for the force field: It must be resistant to all small arms fire, melee weapons, some explosives, and be able to prevent any damage to the user from these weapons.
It has to use a ...
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Given the materials of a nuclear reactor, what is the most effective body of water to threaten pollution on?
I have a colony of semi-post-apocalyptic survivors who have created a deterrence scenario involving their access to both a nuclear reactor and some body(s) of water.
Ideally, I'd like the water to be ...
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Why would an invisible personal shield be necessary?
I’m trying to think of a reason why an advanced civilization would find it useful to invent an invisible handheld shield as protection against a civilization with primitive weaponry (sticks, stones, ...
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Can a sound of 125dbs from a watch be used to cause pain for self defense?
I was planning on creating a watch capable of producing around 125 dbs of sound for self defense: it would irritate/incapacitate an attacker and possibly give the victim an opportunity to leave the ...
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A character who self-inflicts damage to become stronger/more effective
What is a good term to describe a characteristic of wounding ones self in order to heighten your damage inflicting abilities?
Side note: I need this character mainly as a foil to another character ...
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Can a high power EMP generator keeps killer robots at bay?
Set in the near future, thousands of killer robots resemble those featured in the terminator film, I'm referring to the 800 series model are now marching in as we speaks. I am a sole survivor on a ...
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How can Santa defend himself?
The world is full of grinches. Party-poopers who simply insist on taking the fun away from everybody else. They'll do everything they can to stop Santa from delivering his gifts — and too many ...
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What is our planetary defense capability against an Earth life destroying object?
This is World Building through a preventative measure.
The Earth has been destroyed a few times in the past and it will happen again in the future, it is just a matter of time. For the first time in ...
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Defensive capabilities of a pyrokinesis using superhero?
I’m creating a superhero story, and one of the heroes is a character named Joseph Kroger, AKA The Phoenix. He can create fire with mind, and manipulate it. He also has a high tolerance for heat and ...
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How could the androids protect themselves from EMP attacker?
Out in Fresno, in the Marxist community of Androidia, also known as CyboTek facility 9, lives a community comprised of only robots and artificial intelligences. They are at peace with most surrounding ...
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How do I explain a unicorn discharging powerful electricity at a distance?
I am thinking of copying the design of an electric eel to create the horn, however as air is not a good conductor of electricity it cannot discharge any electrical shock unless there is a physical ...
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Self defense on Mars
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Mars has been colonized in the near future – tens or hundreds of thousands of people live on Mars. For political reasons, EarthGov is against sending weapons to Mars; and, they ...
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How would a magic user whose magic requires them to enter a dream-state defend themselves? [closed]
So, I have run into a bit of a problem. You see, I am currently creating a magic system for a second fantasy world I'm working on, and I am unable to figure out how to solve some of the problems posed ...
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In the face of global vehicle and electronic failures, who would get the food and good farming land?
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Posit basically our current world (focusing for now on the 1st/2nd world nations), but beset by increasing global failures in the technology-based infrastructure: failures of ...
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