# Ability to hack one of your own arms or legs off

**URL:** <https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/ability-to-hack-one-of-your-own-arms-or-legs-off/5003>\
**Category:** The Drawing Board\
**Created:** [February 8, 2014, 2:57am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/ability-to-hack-one-of-your-own-arms-or-legs-off/5003 "2014-02-08T02:57:57Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![TheGrifter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/278dde/32.png) [@TheGrifter](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/TheGrifter)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2014, 2:57am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/ability-to-hack-one-of-your-own-arms-or-legs-off/5003/1 "2014-02-08T02:57:57Z")

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I was watching Springer today, and it was a good one…

“I’m Glad I cut my Legs Off”.[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DA43DS2c12c](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DA43DS2c12c)

So I got to thinking, we have hacksaws in-game, cauterization, all that good stuff, so why can’t I hack off my legs?

Or what if my hand goes bad, and I have to lop it off at the wrist?

Mind you, I don’t want any attachments or prosthetics… Just… Mind you, the ability to hack off your own limbs.

Obviously, once you’re down to only one arm though, you can’t cut that arm off. That’d be unrealistic.

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**Author:** ![StopSignal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/stopsignal/32/1923_2.png) [@StopSignal](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/StopSignal)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2014, 3:09am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/ability-to-hack-one-of-your-own-arms-or-legs-off/5003/2 "2014-02-08T03:09:07Z")

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Listen to this man. He is a genious.  
Realism and desesperation in only one action: Cutting your limb.

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**Author:** ![keldoclock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e19b73/32.png) [@keldoclock](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/keldoclock)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2014, 3:13am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/ability-to-hack-one-of-your-own-arms-or-legs-off/5003/3 "2014-02-08T03:13:08Z")

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Great! Players who build bases in hospitals can have infinite food! I love it.

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**Author:** ![Inquisitor\_Dust](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/inquisitor_dust/32/119_2.png) [@Inquisitor\_Dust](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Inquisitor_Dust)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2014, 4:36am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/ability-to-hack-one-of-your-own-arms-or-legs-off/5003/4 "2014-02-08T04:36:08Z")

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> [@keldoclock](#):
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> Great! Players who build bases in hospitals can have infinite food! I love it.

Oh my god yes. Amputate, eat, regrow, repeat.  
Also a mutation that let’s you regrow limbs would be cool…

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**Author:** ![Rivet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/rivet/32/11_2.png) [@Rivet](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Rivet)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2014, 4:46am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/ability-to-hack-one-of-your-own-arms-or-legs-off/5003/5 "2014-02-08T04:46:19Z")

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> [@Ashley Williams](#):
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> Then it came after me, it got into my hand and it went bad, so I lopped it off at the wrist.

It would be a great last-ditch solution to infected extremities too, for those poor sods that get stuck with a bite wound and no means of treating it properly.

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**Author:** ![Leper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecd19e/32.png) [@Leper](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Leper)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2014, 5:39am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/ability-to-hack-one-of-your-own-arms-or-legs-off/5003/6 "2014-02-08T05:39:24Z")

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It’d be cool if bear traps were reworked to be harder to free yourself from if this was implemented. Not insanely hard, but maybe a strength check so if you’re weak from several days of no food and water, or whatever, you can’t simply pry the bear trap apart with your bare (opening the floodgates for puns here) hands.

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**Author:** ![Zireael](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/zireael/32/956_2.png) [@Zireael](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Zireael)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2014, 8:30am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/ability-to-hack-one-of-your-own-arms-or-legs-off/5003/7 "2014-02-08T08:30:38Z")

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> [@Rivet](#):
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> [quote=“Ashley Williams”]Then it came after me, it got into my hand and it went bad, so I lopped it off at the wrist.

It would be a great last-ditch solution to infected extremities too, for those poor sods that get stuck with a bite wound and no means of treating it properly.[/quote]

I like this idea!

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**Author:** ![Birdie](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/birdie/32/97_2.png) [@Birdie](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Birdie)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2014, 3:09pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/ability-to-hack-one-of-your-own-arms-or-legs-off/5003/8 "2014-02-08T15:09:48Z")

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I smell a massive morale penalty!

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**Author:** ![John\_Candlebury](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/john_candlebury/32/6437_2.png) [@John\_Candlebury](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/John_Candlebury)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2014, 3:23pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/ability-to-hack-one-of-your-own-arms-or-legs-off/5003/9 "2014-02-08T15:23:14Z")

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John Candlebury has been miserable lately. He has been attacked by the dead lately. He has been starving recently, he has sustained major injuries lately, he was forced to eat his left leg to survive. He has endured the pain of stem cell entreat recently, he was forced to eat his left leg to survive recently.

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**Author:** ![Slax](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/slax/32/5385_2.png) [@Slax](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Slax)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2014, 4:01pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/ability-to-hack-one-of-your-own-arms-or-legs-off/5003/10 "2014-02-08T16:01:03Z")

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+1 for rare chance of dismemberment mishaps during severe drunkenness.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/cataclysmdda/original/1X/21b5d044e8473b25d0bf905d60477e25f6fbe0cf.png) [@system](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2014, 2:41am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/ability-to-hack-one-of-your-own-arms-or-legs-off/5003/11 "2014-02-09T02:41:20Z")

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+1 because I want the regeneration perk to regrow limbs.

[size=24pt]I HUNGER FOR HUMAN FLESH.[/size]

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**Author:** ![TheGrifter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/278dde/32.png) [@TheGrifter](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/TheGrifter)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2014, 3:32am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/ability-to-hack-one-of-your-own-arms-or-legs-off/5003/12 "2014-02-09T03:32:04Z")

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So we’re all in general consensus:

This is a good idea. It should be added. For the Evil Dead reference, for the Walking Dead comic reference, for any zombie story in which a bitten area is infected and amputated…

Hell, anyone ever read Stephen King’s “Survivor Type”?

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**Author:** ![John\_Candlebury](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/john_candlebury/32/6437_2.png) [@John\_Candlebury](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/John_Candlebury)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2014, 8:39am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/ability-to-hack-one-of-your-own-arms-or-legs-off/5003/13 "2014-02-09T08:39:11Z")

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I would love an option that made zombie bites lethal, that one could present some nice (sadistically hard) challenge.

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**Author:** ![Rivet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/rivet/32/11_2.png) [@Rivet](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Rivet)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2014, 8:44am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/ability-to-hack-one-of-your-own-arms-or-legs-off/5003/14 "2014-02-09T08:44:22Z")

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> [@TheGrifter](#):
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> Hell, anyone ever read Stephen King’s “Survivor Type”?

Ladyfingers. They taste just like ladyfingers.

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**Author:** ![kilozombie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e274bd/32.png) [@kilozombie](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/kilozombie)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2014, 9:07pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/ability-to-hack-one-of-your-own-arms-or-legs-off/5003/15 "2014-02-09T21:07:20Z")

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You should be forced to do this with a hacksaw before installing the Blaster Arm CBM.

Oh, and sword legs for psychotic martial artists, because why not.

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**Author:** ![ChristopherWalken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecccb3/32.png) [@ChristopherWalken](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/ChristopherWalken)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2014, 9:10pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/ability-to-hack-one-of-your-own-arms-or-legs-off/5003/16 "2014-02-09T21:10:19Z")

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> [@kilozombie](#):
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> Oh, and sword legs for psychotic martial artists, because why not.

Tokyo gore police?

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**Author:** ![FunsizeNinja123](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/funsizeninja123/32/118_2.png) [@FunsizeNinja123](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/FunsizeNinja123)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2014, 9:11pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/ability-to-hack-one-of-your-own-arms-or-legs-off/5003/17 "2014-02-09T21:11:04Z")

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I want sword arms…

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**Author:** ![TheGrifter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/278dde/32.png) [@TheGrifter](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/TheGrifter)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2014, 9:28pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/ability-to-hack-one-of-your-own-arms-or-legs-off/5003/18 "2014-02-09T21:28:22Z")

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> [@FunsizeNinja123](#):
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> I want sword arms…

Like a T1000 stuck on knife arm-mode.

Or like Meryl from the Walking Dead, if he had to cut off both arms to escape the rooftop.

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**Author:** ![Slax](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/slax/32/5385_2.png) [@Slax](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Slax)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2014, 9:38pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/ability-to-hack-one-of-your-own-arms-or-legs-off/5003/19 "2014-02-09T21:38:45Z")

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Sword arms, rake face, microwave chest…

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**Author:** ![TheGrifter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/278dde/32.png) [@TheGrifter](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/TheGrifter)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2014, 9:46pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/ability-to-hack-one-of-your-own-arms-or-legs-off/5003/20 "2014-02-09T21:46:20Z")

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> [@Slax](#):
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> Sword arms, rake face, microwave chest…

Enough of this ridiculous tangent.

Can we get back on realistic amputation or are we just going to babble about microwave chest implants that would obviously take up way too much torso space that is needed for organs, and not a microwave?

Now, can’t a person cut his own arm or leg off in peace?

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