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I find this incredibly fascinating

But people on the street will tell you, 'you are king'. That's gotta be worth it.

And flattering!

adventurer's souls are kinda empty and barebones compared to a Normal Dwarf's soul... or well any Dwarf fortress character's Soul.
the only other soul that close to the barren adventurer's soul is the zombie unit who Doesn't even Have one.

Personally I was inspired by the RPG called 'OFF' (by Mortis Ghost) which refers to the Batter, the main character, as the 'puppet', and the player controlling him as 'the puppeteer'.

The Batter is aware of his and the player's status, that the player controls his movements and actions.
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The Batter: I'm the Batter. I've been assigned to a sacred mission.
The Judge: It is a pleasure. However, it is not the puppet I was addressing, but the puppeteer controlling it. What is your name, dear puppeteer?
The Batter: His name is <player name here>. He can't talk to us. However, he can hear and see everything.
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Can't talk to them, but sees and hears everything? Ha, that sounds a lot like what I do in lots of games!

Thus I personally find it easy to bring this Puppet-Puppeteer perception into other games, regardless of whether the characters are aware of the player.

So in the same way that's my relationship with my adventurer; I'm the puppeteer, and by my puppet's personality traits he feels no anger, stress or sadness, just like the awesome un-feeling purifier, the Batter. And so we travel the world together ridding it of bone-chilling horrors.

As I'm really not sure: Is this a bug, or is it ok?
I'm quite hoping the townfolk wouldn't live their lives still in fear of the vampire (as they still talk about him in 'inquire troubles'),
even though they know he's dead

I tested 2 groups of humans multiple times in the Object Testing Arena.
1 team brandished short swords, the other with battle axes; weapons manufacturable by dwarves.

The battle outcomes I got were 50-50.

However, swords have the advantage of being more than twice lighter than axes, allowing you to carry more of other useful stuff. So, then, that's what I chose.

(Moved topic from Adventure Mode discussion, when I was still an Escaped Lunatic, bumped for visibility.)

...without needing to look through every one of them individually...
How do I pick out that one dwarf with the best armorsmith skill among the 98 dwarves living at my fort?

I acquired, from a dwarven caravan, a few steel battle axes I want to melt because the area I embarked in apparently doesn't have any iron ores... (checked out with DFHack's reveal)

Read the wiki,

then designated those axes - in a bin in a weapon stockpile - for melting, added the 'melt metal object' job to the smelter, then unpaused. I checked the job list (j) every several seconds.

Normally a dwarf would come to do the job I assigned, but this melting job just disappears off the list and off the smelter.

What to do? Should I try disabling autolabor? Does it matter if the weapons have brackets on them, i.e. (steel battle axe)?

I got to advanced-generate a (pocket) world where humans and elves were at constant war against each other because the humans didn't like the elves eating sapient beings.

Every time one ends, another would start soon after, give or take a year, as seen in legends viewer. The list was worth three screen heights, spanning 2000 years!

First word that came to my mind: 'Strangereal', the world of the Ace Combat series where they've had more than 3 or 4 world wars as I understand it.

Nothing on the wiki has yet caught my eye as to how different materials would affect crossbows.
Now I just learnt you can make bone and wooden crossbows...

How do they fair against metal ones?