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instead of having only dwarves migrate to your fortress, How about an assortment of different races like elves, animal people, humans and maybe even goblins to appear in migrant waves?

i think it would be a interesting addition to the game.
they are marked on the map with a * symbol.
the color of the camps symbol shows if the tribe is aggressive or not
if the color of the * symbol is red that means the tribe is aggressive.
if the color of the * symbol is blue that means the tribe is friendly.
the animal people tribes trade with fortresses during spring or summer. the items they offer are usually wooden items, plants, hides, and blowguns and darts.

why?

i currently have alot of tame turtles in my fortress and im wondering if they make good pets.

Quote from: IndigoFenix on February 25, 2018, 03:07:44 pm

Just another brand of night creature is boring, we can mod those.  What about cunning hermits and hags that can offer travelers devilish bargains and brew potions with dubious if potentially beneficial effects?

This would be great idea. Some great potential for expanding the secrets system that Necromancers use. Instead of necessarily secluding themselves in a tower like necromancers they could live in caves or isolated huts in the wilderness. Instead of getting the "obsessed with his/her/its own mortality" and turning to worship of something with a DEATH sphere to get a slab and become a necromancer, we could see something like 'Urist secluded himself in the wilderness to contemplate the natural world'

Perhaps the mechanism could be worship of a force of nature-mirroring how necromancers get their powers from deities. Perhaps it could be just tinkering. Instead of just the one secret necromancers get, I think a slow stream of less potent powers learned over time based on the individuals attributes, possibly devotion to the force of nature, time studying  and luck. Something like potions and salve (perhaps like gnomeblight and golden salve?) might be able to be written down, but others like talking to animals, not needing to eat or drink, or changing the weather might be able to be taught to a disciple, but couldn't be learned from a book, and might even be bound to a force of nature, and thus bound to a region.

I like the idea that some magic secrets might be able to be learned from studying dusty tomes in a wizard tower somewhere, some might be divinely granted, while others might come from some sort of wilderness asceticism/communing with nature.

Perhaps their title 'hermit, witch, shaman, druid etc' could be determined by what secrets or collections of secrets they learn in seclusion, or what civilizations they associate with if/when they return to civilization. Perhaps whatever secrets they accumulate could even make them better canidates/be requirements for offices in elven civs.

druids are actually in the game i think.

Every once in a while you may come across a name that it so horrid that it's funny.<P>
I don't think it can get anymore worst than this one...<P>

i found a hamlet called "the Kingdom of Virginity"





probably where i would stay my whole life

Just another brand of night creature is boring, we can mod those.  What about cunning hermits and hags that can offer travelers devilish bargains and brew potions with dubious if potentially beneficial effects?

sounds good.

i think they would make a pretty fine addition to the game, female humanoids that secretly live in hamlets or in deep forests. they possess the ability to raise the dead, throw fire, and make people vomit.