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My necro post DID add something (though its actual worth is up to the masses)

Add to the General Section, "criminal catalyst".  Right now "justice" consists of little temper tantrums your dwarves throw, but were a dwarf addicted on a drug and couldn't get it, he would try stealing money, stealing drugs, experimenting with new drugs, and making money "illegally" (selling/growing drugs) in addition to throwing things, picking random fist-fights, and going beserk.

Recreational drugs have impacts beyond just the effects the user immediately feels.  I think you should update the OP mentioning drugs being a catalyst for criminal activity.

Can attacks be aimed as of right now?  Some kind of trap that utilizes blunt force to the dwarf's cranium would be fun.  Whether or not the dwarf survives would be iffy and totally random, which is good  .

Why do we want to bring new real life plants and their derivitives into the game?  Why not something already in the game, such as meal made from plump helmet spores?  Or fish extracts, or gnomeblight?

I am sure people of the pre-columbian world were not much more resistant to drug abuse.  First of all, alcohol is a drug and drunkeness crippled many European cities.  Second, the problem was more likely supply, pre-15th century European individuals would be hard-pressed to get their hands on Opium or Hashish or Cannabis, or some other Middle Eastern drug.  Once things were readily available to a population, they were open to abuse.  Examples include refined sugar (Europe), tobacco(Europe), opium(China/?Japan?), and hard liquor(Africa/Americas/Europe)

Marginally on-topic, I am currently plastered on mead.

Ugh, that sounds awful, true mead is pure fermented honey, right?  Anything else is melomel, which isn't so bad.

Neat, but to overcomplicate things , what about kobolds that set traps to incapacitate without killing.  For example some kind of container trap that stuffs the dwarf in a net/bag/feet bindings, which then allows the kobolds to kidnap fully grown dwarves.

and a down directional iron spiked rope   

Hmmm.... wall mounted catapults, that would be kind of epic now wouldn't it?

I believe I made a similar suggestion in the past.  I proposed that dwarves be made able to instantly craft so many throwing stones or one stone club out of raw stone.  People saw the phrase "instant craft" and shot me down, but i still think it is a good idea.

I was mostly talkiing about improvised weapons, not literally creating a stone club or missile, but using it Cain and Abel style.

I think some people are taking this too politically or only in the political sense.  LucosLoC gave a good example for a slider, the "kill elves" slider.  However, by no means should this ever need to be as complex as LucosLoC's "slider tree".

A figure (and civ in world gen) would be generated with his ethics sliders preset based on his background culture, is it alright to cut down trees?  How much break time is permissible?  Is it alright to kill at all?  Is carp meat sinfull to eat?  Is it ethical to butcher animals with pet tags?  Should certain races be hated/feared?

Then (s)he would have personal traits such as: aversion to rain, hatred of purring maggots, respect of the above cultural morals, bloodlust, love of cows for their haunting moos

These two different sets of statistics each figure would likely interact (Eg.  A figure can not have a love of killing and be created in a pacifist community while having a high respect for his cultures rules, some mechanism has to be in place to fix this conflict)

In the future these could be dynamic, changing throughout a civ/actor's life.

Sorry never played LCS, but I would suppose Tarn Adam's would draw heavily upon it if it does include a spectrum. 

@Kael, I know that in the real world there is no simple "left/right" spectrum ("Anybody who makes up their mind before meeting the issue is a godamned fool!" -paraphrased Chris Rock)  But the whole process needs to be dumbed down into numerical terms for the computer.

To make the whole thing more complex, you would simply have to have several spectrums based on opposites  Eg.)  Elf/Dwarf, God/God, Religion/Athiest, Civilized/Savage from which the historical figure draws his ethics and culture from, which in turn can make major impacts on world-gen decision making.

Of course, this would be the social influence on a figure, individual traits should still have priority in creating a figure's psycological profile.

EDIT:  Huh, this is almost a suggestion....