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Alright, fair enough..... I now have a new appreciation for Tarn Adams, working on a solo-indie project that is supported by unreliable donations must take a lot of determination.  I have strong doubts I could dedicate so much to a project such as this, especially if I had the experience to take another better-paid route.

Grates, yes. Fort'ns, no.

That's how they're designed.  Bars too, both vertical and horizontal.

Learn something new everyday, that is pretty fricken awesome, I am going to have to try that, in fact that might even be yet another unbeatable defence, have a military level above or below an area of a fort and build grates to turn your entrance hall into a marksdwarf's playground, the very idea is pretty cool.

The principal dwarven vices seem to be throwing things, fistfighting, breaking stuff, and being friends with the guy I just accidentally squashed. 

However druggies in our culture get nowheres, fistfighting and breaking stuff can be very important skills that Dwarves likely put on their resumes

Athens was a true democracy because all of its voting citizens voted directly for their candidate, everybody was required to vote and there were no representatives.  US is a representative democracy.  There is my rant.

Now...Although different governments would be cool, there is a problem, like I mentioned in my thread on government, the current system is a placeholder, the nobles don't actually "do" anything important.  The dwarves themselves don't differentiate between noble and non-noble, skilled crafter and lowly peon.  Dwarven culture is 100% equal and unbiased, all nobles are figureheads and you (meaning the player) are the totalitarian boss.  If you decide that everybody must be drafted and jump into some magma, they will do so willingly.

In short... DF would be better off as a "god game" rather than sim city meets Rome Total War

Christ!  Just because they eat once a month and organize a party once a season you have got to get so upset?   

Honnestly, although the breaks are long, they are sparce unless the dwarf has a personality flaw, my dwarves spend the vast majority of their time either in a workshop or hauling.

In order for something to be a vice it has to be frowned upon by their society, and, well......dwarves are pretty amoral beings.  Besides working 98% of your life is virtuous enough to make up for any kitten mishaps

The government itself is pretty much an aristocracy.

However...
Dwarven society as a whole is basically a dysfunctional Borg-type... thing.

hehe, -typethingy is the greatest suffix ever, it is so useful 

Serriously though, I should have renamed the title to Dwaven Society, it would have lessened the confusion...sorry

Query:  If mind-altering drugs don't exist and alcohol keeps Dwarves sober than what turns them into psuedo-pirate partiers?  Jeez do dwarves have any vice at all?