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You can still remember the sounds of battle clanging in your ears. The smell of blood hanging in the early morning mist. You still aren't quite sure what brought you to the small hill, what spurred you to charge recklessly forward. All you know is that, when the day was done, people were telling you that you had saved the King's life.

Your life was so simple before this. You farmed a small plot your father left you, drilled with your lord's local militia, and mooned after the marriageable local women. A plain, but dignified existence: a young man's life. Now you weren't so sure what will come ahead.

All you are sure of is that the boring steward who is sitting at a small desk surrounded by courtiers has droned on for most of the morning, as you sit uncomfortably on an oak bench in the Royal Audience Room. You are quite bored, and your "nice" tunic looks woefully out of place amongst all of the finery. One of the other fellows, dressed much nicer than you, indicated that the King would not be in attendance. So you sit, and wait, and wonder what you were called here for. The letter, read to you by a local friar, didn't give any indications beyond "a reward for valiant service to the realm."

Suddenly, out of the din of conversation, you hear your name ring. What is it?

GM NOTE: So this game is basically a medieval setting, analogous to Earth but distinct (i.e. no countries we know but otherwise the same). You will be a newly minted lord pulling yourself up from the bootstraps. Next turn you'll pick the land, and then the game will most likely move at a season a turn. If you've seen or played any of my other games before, know that I'm not super into stats and complicated systems. I like to have fun, keep the story going, and not worry too much about details. Hope you'll all enjoy playing!

So I'm looking for a good iPad game to use up some free time for gaming this weekend. I am looking for something intelligent that requires strategy (not a reflex or speed based game), with good replayability.

Any suggestions? I'm looking at Starbase Orion, World of Goo, or Dungeon Defenders: Second Wave. Any other suggestions would be much appreciated.

Any ideas on how to do this? Toady gave some mention of body plan files needing to be updated, but I don't know exactly what that means.

All I know is, when I try to run my 34.04 fort in 34.05, I get this message:

"Fatal Error: Missing Creature Body Definition: RCP_Eyelids"

Then it crashes.

I updated raws in the save file and everything. Any ideas? I'd prefer not to re-gen the world if I could, really enjoying the fort I'm working on.

So my current system seems to be fading out, having some problems getting it in and out of sleep mode/some random crashing. It's about 4.5 years old, so it's probably time to get a new one.

I want a desktop, something that can game (although I tend to play more DF type games, less graphic intensive), photo edit, and so on. Any suggestions on brands/places to look/things to check out? I don't really want to build my own rig, as I don't have that experience. Appreciate any thoughts.

Hi all, long time no post. Jumped back in for the new version, and I have run into a bit of a pickle.

I've got a moderate, growing fort (~50 dwarfs), but only one pick to go around. That pick was held by a miner who got injured in a cave-in. I got him to drop it by designating it for dumping, but now no other miners will pick it up. It's not forbidden, either. Any thoughts?

I am on my way to make a new one, but I don't have metal yet, so that'll be tough. Caravan will arrive eventually, too, but it's a bit odd.

I'm sure this has probably been suggested before, but it'd be nice if dwarfs were better at clearing out building sites. I hate jobs that almost permanently go back to being suspended because there is an item sitting in the construction site, no matter how small.

So in my current game (31.06), I have a baby that was caught in a melee and now needs a diagnosis. I have two doctors sitting around twiddling their thumbs. A similar situation has occurred with a war giant leopard. Do animals, children and babies not get healthcare currently?