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The “Swarm” rule for dungeons and dragons was for spells. Other then blunt and AoE everything else did half-damage (Spells that targeted creatures individually, unless it could be done on mass, did nothing against swarms)

Version I read was 1 damage per swing...

That whole system could be faked as a bunch of parts with no connectivity information and nopain.  A single slash would destroy a part, but couldn't cut through to another.

Catapults do 'destroyination' damage, iirc, fire and magma and water would play well (coverings would hit all parts at once).  Only thing to test would be the imp's fire blast, and see if destroying one part by raising it's temperature would properly spread through the entire creature.

It's pretty simple to just run a media player while you're playing Dwarf Fortress; as long as the game music is off it won't interfere. I sorta think the hassle of moving/copying MP3's to the raws folder would be a tad... unnecessary.

I agree...

OTOH, it would be a useful first step towards custom sound events

And then matter and antimatter would cancel each other out?

Sounds... ok

But those have been repeatedly and expressly claimed as not being for the application, just for the talks.  (since they were submitted by a third party)

Anyway, the DF Raws way to do it would be to just have a directory with MP3s (or whatever) that get cycled through, with the normal DF music as the only default item.

2 ways to do it that come to mind are

1: Each tile actually includes in its definition the 4(or 8.) bordering tiles, with the tileset being sophisticated enough to pick which one... It involves being able to insert a tile server between the tiles and the game, but that might not be a bad idea anyway if you used it to handle iso details as well.

2: Where multiple borders make sense, the tile is numbered by surroundings. (For example, for walls, you'd have 123-XX as the tile pointer, and XX would contain a byte with the information about what's around it.) Effectively you'd have 256 tiles for every possible tile, and the system'd need to use a 'default' tile(00) for any tile not represented

Currently castes can't change at all, because body transformations aren't supported.  Angel/Demon split is a good example for when it is, though.

Tranquilizer gun. Keep in mind that in puzzles that tell you not to harm something, tranquilizing something is still considered harming it. Same with transforming it into a frog, or freezing it, or whatever.

I've been able to freezeray opponents that I couldn't wand-frogify