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Black library has a ton of authors who've done good work in creating explainable depth for shallow characters. I was angry when they did it to Ahriman, but I can't argue that it's done wonders for his PR.

Someone just needs to do one of those books for Abaddon. Give him a big ol' grow moment in his own book.
Or better yet, have someone kill him and steal his name.

Got my epic scale Rhino painted today.  Went with Space Wolf colors, though the blue should really be softer, its more cyan than a proper periwinkle.

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If you're curious, left to right for the mechs is the Grasshopper, Longbow, and Marauder

Kinda love the rhino in scale with battletech mechs.

1st Moonstone

Winter has arrived with little fanfare. Leather items have begun to be processed, and there is an assortment of greaves flying from the furnaces.

Kogan Swimpulley finally hit a fortress guard, and bounced. That's some rough damage to his leg. Pre-DF2012, there's no medicine so it's mostly going to be the work of time and water while he gets back up. Plus, maybe soap? Can't remember if soap was in that yet, or just a great trade good.

I've found what might be the result of the 'item inaccessible' prompts. This vault- packed with a ridiculous maze and filled with a single coin stockpile
Economy in 40d... well, existed, but has never not been in a broken state. Essentially, it was better to have zero coins, ever. Dwarves are able to do the mental gymnastics of their own account just fine, and it's preferable to the constant rushing back and forth from the mint to accumulate their precise wealth in coins. Hence, an empty coin stockpile in a locked room at the end of the world. Smart.
I've deleted the stockpile and I'm gonna see if that clears stuff up, just in case some goblins dropped some coins somewhere at some point.

Edit: It didn't.

Kogan One-Leg is slowly starving and dehydrating on the floor of the training room, so I might strip a few hauling jobs off a peasant, see if he can be convinced to do some more intensive health care.

My final act of trying to clean up before I leave, the king is still tragically struck by the bedroom conditions of his lessers. He's sitting on some extra real-estate which his room isn't actually reaching, so I'm going to see if I can extend it into that stockpile.
Stone (I think) is a teeny negative value, but it's far outstripped by the ridiculously high value of the engravings underneath, so that shouldn't be a problem at all. We'll have to see next year if his thoughts recover from his tragic ignomy.
The butt.

Well, I daresay I've done what I can here. There are a gaggle of dogs being born and I have no idea where the animal trainer's workshop is, so that's probably a future problem.
Also, decent progress has been made on updating the Iron Road, but that's not a one-year job at this point. Everyone is busy as heck. The good news is that Kogan is on a bed now. It would be pretty ridiculous to lose a champion withering away on the floor.


Here's the save:
https://dffd.bay12games.com/file.php?id=16003
Here's the version:
https://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/df_28_181_40d.zip

My high-seas party has made their way to the Elemental Plane of Fire - for all of them, this is the first time they've felt dry air in 50 years, if not their whole life.

Any recommendations of silly fire things to encounter?

Random boil-overs causing the ground to become lava, shift around for a few rounds, and then re-solidify?
I’ve got stormlight archives in my head, something like fireflies being a cute little critter you don’t think about and they’re actually multiplanar abominations which only show that specific part of them in the material plane.
-which makes a mating dance suddenly very confusing.

Also, hi all. I play D&D and pathfinder. I also make terrain

So we begin, although the earth is long since struck. Returning to my throne of power, my garden of migranes, a mere thirteen years later.
That's right, I last ran this exact fortress in 2009. A thrill to read, although it is curious how reading my literature from those times makes my insides hurt and eyes water.
I am pretty sure I was the one who built the road of iron. I might do some block-work to fix up the summary screen.


Yep... let's turn the resolution down a tad.
Ah, feels like nothing has changed.
Goals for this year:
1. A new source of iron
2. Using all of this cyan tumbleweed for something productive
3. Bin and Barrel replenishment (I hope I don't create an FPS monster with this)

Nevermind- the new year started with a siege. A quick dip into military mechanics and I've sent out the champions
Obsidian swords and steel armor make short work of these.
One champion appears to have taken a knock to the head, or maybe just too much light- but he was slaughtering just fine regardless.

A new siege comes quickly afterwards, and three mobs of goblins disappear as quickly as a blinky mob of smiling faces can approach and then dismember them

Working on part 2. I've got strands being extracted but I'm unsure how this stuff worked in 40d. If I recall even the damage system was different. Cloaks were godlike, but wore out quite quickly, whereas things like platemail weren't really worth the cost.
I'm tempted to start on chainmail, as I believe blunt damage is a bit washy in this version. I'll have a look though.
Now, how would a person smelt this stuff into weapons and armor without it being immediately claimed by the civilian population? For sure I have no idea.

New news interrupts me, I have a fey mood craftsman who has claimed a workshop... somewhere. Cannot for the life of me find them.
However, that draws my attention to something else. Seems a noble's mandate must have expired as I'm viewing an altercation here.
That right there... is a champion beating a guard unconscious with his fists.
Sometimes the law needs to take a second and evaluate.

A new hammer arrives with a migrant wave the next day. We'll see what he has to say about this.

And our prodigy has completed their work. It's a child!
Leaving this here so we know who to make a stonecrafter when they come of age.

Interesting note, I have learned that if dwarves are Activated but not 'On Duty', that is when they will spar in the barracks.
So far, the champions are becoming more proficient. Also, we have three fortress guard out of commission, one missing an arm, one with a spinal injury and one with a heavy lung injury.
These two things may be related. Perhaps I should find somewhere to store training equipment.

Till next season!

Popping in randomly to complain. Finally got around to finishing the campaign on this sucker, took out the big boss by removing the legs on their mech. Not only did they suddenly undergo spontaneous plot death, but I didn't get a single piece of salvage from their SLDF-tier mech.

Weirdly less annoyed about the king crab parts than I am about the death. Don't add in a mechanic to take pilots alive and then fail to write something for if the pilot gets taken alive.

Quote from: Tack on May 26, 2020, 11:46:23 am

Randomly- any grammar nazis able to lend a hand?
I've got ^ these things in my writing. They seem to occupy some weird space between a comma and a bracket. Especially for -in the case of formal writing- adding in extra bits which might be out of sequence in a sentence, but are 'more important' than bracketed stuff.

I think they're illegal? But I keep using them because I don't know of anything better. Are they kosher? Should I be using them? I don't want to lose marks because professors are reading my stuff and going 'wtf is with all of this dude's hyphens?'

https://www.grammarerrors.com/punctuation/dashes-hyphens/

https://www.grammarbook.com/punctuation/dashes.asp

Only just referred back to this. Now it’s bookmarked. Thanks!

Looking to buy myself an airbrush off of ebay, find one fairly cheap that comes recommended by folks who know this stuff. Seller is in Poland, article page claims it ships to my country, when I check out the shipping details it lists a number of places it doesn't ship to, my country or the region is not on that list. I go to checkout and suddenly it's 'oops the seller doesn't ship to your country, try something else'.

Some fucking consistency on this shit would be appreciated as it would cut down on time wasted greatly :I

As someone from Kangarooland I empathise. It doesn’t ship here and if it does ship here it costs double.
Let us know what you’re airbrushing though. Sounds cool.

Quote from: umiman on May 14, 2020, 03:48:57 pm

Quote from: Teneb on May 13, 2020, 12:03:28 pm

Apparently streamers have found out that Grimgor's Immortulz banner is now incredibly OP.

How OP? The unit with that banner cannot lose models while leadership is over 50%. Now imagine that on the Krimson Killaz

WHAT ZE FUK. Holy shit. Well... I guess it's actually really good now.

Yeah. Pairing that with how much Grimgor got buffed (I forget the specifics, but I know his mass is now big enough you need the super big kids like Kholek and Durthu to actually knock him over), the Greenskin Rework (which includes Norsca-style confederation) and the reworked Badlands and dwarf starts (pretty much all the minor dwarfs that had multiple settlements were reduced to having just one) will make Black Crag an amazing start. Truly the one and future git.

Now hold on, they can still lose HP, so you'd likely end up with a unit of 1HP krimzon Killaz who are just waiting for the Ld tipping point before they up and suddenly die.