My character drowned, please change swimming!

[kaka]

The two alternatives I like the best are...

The Zelda alternative:
When you run out of stamina, you "drown" and end up on the shore where you entered the water,
losing a certain amount of hp; possibly all shp, knocking you out.

The Other alternative:
When you drown, you're swept away by the currents (yes, even in a lake) and end up on a shore
anywhere in the world, but preferably somewhere connected to where you drowned.

[Drowner]

I found it odd when I first started playing that you can have the stamina and HP to kill a bear but not swim across a small river

I would really like swimming to be less lethal

[Pacho]

I would like bears to be more lethal =[

Or lethal at all would be nice.

Maybe let them swim too, since it doesn't make sense that they don't =[

[Tower]

If its not dangerous enough it would make boats less useful.
Leave it as it is for game play reasons.

[Chakravanti]

The Other alternative:
When you drown, you're swept away by the currents (yes, even in a lake) and end up on a shore
anywhere in the world, but preferably somewhere connected to where you drowned.

That sounds an aweful lot like teleportation but I could buy it if it were random and did a good bit of % SHP damage.

[Agarrett]

Maybe fixing swimming will be a new feature they add. Finally, a way to get across rivers without spending 8 minutes making a boat. Make swimming much easier to do and instead of washing up on shore, you simply stop moving and must wait to regain stamina. If you try to swim while you have no stamina, after about 10 tiles or so, you wash up on shore with a considerable amount of damage to your health.

[Peter]

Some may argue that rivers that can be crossed easily negate boats, but let's remember that boats are far faster than swimming, and allow you to carry items. Even if you could swim forever, boats will remain useful.

[Jackard]

If its not dangerous enough it would make boats less useful.
Leave it as it is for game play reasons.

u dum

[Winterbrass]

Leave swimming where it is, and make other shit more lethal. There is a distinct lack of death that's meted out by the game, instead of simply by players.

[Peter]

Leave swimming where it is, and make other shit more lethal. There is a distinct lack of death that's meted out by the game, instead of simply by players.

This would indeed be interesting, assuming it doesn't take two months of grinding to get a workable character.