Postures

[Kawa-oneechan]

Basically, track characters' postures for various effects.

If you get knocked down, you switch to "prone". If you're on a chair tile and use it you switch to "seated". If you're on a bed tile and use it you switch to "prone", whether you choose to rest or not. Actually trying to walk switches you back to "standing" first.

Perhaps trying to walk while prone makes you crawl instead, trading speed for being harder to hit/see, and you can use < and > to get up/down on purpose as long as you're not on a stairway.

Sexual actions can then trivially filter against the participants' postures -- you can't do it missionary style while standing after all.

[Kawa-oneechan]

There are now three different postures:

1. "Upright", as in standing or walking;
2. "Prone", as in laying down, on the back or otherwise;
3. "Seated".

Trying to move from one tile to another while not Upright incurs a wasted turn spent getting up, while interacting with a bed (standing in its tile and pressing Enter) makes you Prone even if you decide not to rest.

Some plans and ideas:

• Allow interacting with chairs in the same way so as to become Seated.
• Limit certain types of attack to Upright, incurring a wasted turn otherwise, such as swinging a weapon, while ranged attacks may be done while Seated or Prone.
• Don't allow flight-capable characters to lift off while not Upright, same deal.
• Have NPCs randomly become Seated when they wander onto a chair and skip a few turns sitting there. Don't do this if they're hunting for you.