Quick question about the brawl code

[Xio]

Just wondering if the brawl code utilizes the same 'variables' and whatnot when people fight. Don't want to get into the specifics, basically just wondering if fighting someone unarmed outside a bar is the same as using the brawl code when in a bar.

[mansa]

It's different than regular combat.

[Maybe42or54]

Brawl code only goes into affect for certain locations.
Other places, if you use hit, you are actually aiming for the maiming. There is no "brawling."

Brawl is still illegal wherever you are in the city, tavern or not. It is just a little more allowable in places where it happens a lot.

[brytta.leofa]

It seems to be affected by combat skill, as you would expect.  Whether it's identical (aside from the colorful descriptions) to a single hit in normal barehanded combat I don't know.

Probably you know this, but it's a good time to reiterate: "hit amos" is the only command you can use for brawling (which doesn't work everywhere, not even in all taverns).  Kick, bash, disarm, etc. will start combat for real and get you crimflagged.

[Yam]

Brawling, codewise, is closely related to regular combat.

But it is also quite different.

There seems to be a cap where someone's combat skill is so high that:

If brawling someone of lesser prowess, they absolutely crush them.

If brawling someone of similar prowess, nothing but misses.

That's generally not how combat goes. It uses some of the variables in quasi-related ways. Sort of.

[Dalmeth]

Brawl code works only in specific rooms, all taverns to my knowledge.  There is a "hit brawltest" function what will allow you to test and see if the room has the code in place.  I've never tried, but I doubt the brawl code is functional in the room directly outside a tavern.

If it isn't, it's a good idea.