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Bomrek: Urist! You're on fire!
Urist: I know, thank you.

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The redhead, to be specific.

I have no idea why I picture them without beards. I just do.

IIRC, Tolkien never really delved into his Dwarves very much. There were only a handful of named dwarves, all male, but far fewer than the male elves and humans listed. Heck you can trace Aragorn's family straight back to the first king of Numenor. Where as the dwarves, Tulkas (IIRC) made the original 7 (mentioned as the "Fathers, perhaps they were asexual?) dwarves, and then there was the handful mentioned in The Hobbit and LotR. The Sil only mentioned a few more.

DnD, they have beards, and non-dwarves can't tell them apart. I draw this from a novel, in which after a battle it is mentioned that some number of women fell. Another character remarked that he never knew the difference. Apparently, other than the baby-making bits there are no gender differences in looks or social function.

What is Discworld?

Preventing cheating can easily be done by uploading saves. I doubt anyone would actually doctor a DF screen shot, but you never know these days.

Also, Captain Ironblood should be disqualified from "Most Bad-assed Dwarf" as then no one would be able to take that title. Too bad-assed for the record books.

I find my wood needs usually get high enough that even in heavily forested regions I'm importing as much as I can get my grubby paws on. But, as long as you can find some other source of fuel you should be fine just importing.

One thing is that caravans NEVER seem to bring more than a few bits of charcoal along, never enough for any serious metal work. It's always on my list of requests and never on the wagons that roll in.

Mine usually starts slowing down at around 60-80 dwarves, and 20 pets or so if I have a lot of orders being carried out. I'm thinking of trying to use several mason shops doing nothing but building blocks, with stone blocks disallowed from my ore/coal stockpiles to cut down on hauling jobs. It'd be some really messed up workshops though, with hundreds of blocks.

I think the real problem here is the ability for anyone, particularly a dwarf to wrestle a bear to death.

Haven't you ever wrestled a bear to death?

That does remind me of a thread on some random forum once. A guy was determined to kill a grizzly with nothing but a combat knife. His reasoning was that he could charge straight up to the bear, but it's throat, then get away, while the bear would be too confused to attack (?). I doubt he ever did it, seems the insane ramblings of a madman or the boasts of an idiot looking for attention.

Personally, if I ever went after a bear, I'd want a Browning Automatic Rifle (the one developed at the end of WWI)... and an armored personnel carrier.

In the context of DF, there should be little reason to have genders affect skills or capabilities. These are DWARVES, not humans, and human reasonings have no place in determining anything about our favorite, hairy psychopaths. I would like an easier way to determine them at a glance, which would just mean introducing gender into the nouns and names of the Dwarven language. At worst, having different pallets for the male/females, but that isn't even needed.

I got some in the spring, 1 year after, with no exports on my last attempt. So Apparently I was wrong. I'm digging a huge shaft straight down, so maybe larger projects/constructions help there.