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Yeah, I can see that. I've built up a disguise/stealth guy but even manipulating juries and breaking safes just doesn't generate juice like going in a chopping up a room full of people...

I'm fine with the random judges as judges don't really get to pick their cases (I don't think so...) but the defendant should always be able to pick his lawyer.

Perhaps the lawyers are just under-lawyers and a new "super lawyer" called a Partner who would be available 100% of the time and have judge-like stats.

The results of any spell could be good like turning a bar of steel into adamantine, bad like throwing a fireball accidentally inside your fortress (though the wizard should be able to extinguish this somehow), or neither like bringing the corpse of a dead raccoon back to life.  In any of these circumstances the player should not be given much indication to the end result.

I'd really object to just flat classifying a spells as "good" or "bad" as I feel that's not the point of DF. Good and bad are just subjective. Sometimes your dwarves are good, helping rid the landscape of evil critters, sometimes your dwarvese ARE the bad guys, slaughtering humans/elves/dwarves by the 100's.

Like I posted above, I think that whether a spell is good or bad should depend on the player and the game. I don't think there shoudl be any universally good spells (like converting steel into adamantine) nor universal bad spells (throwing fireballs at friendlies).

Instead, it should depend on context. So perhaps instead of converting steel into admantine all day long, he converts other martials into iron. Great if you have surplus of copper or nickle. Not so much if he's converting platinum, gold, or even already polished steel back into iron again.

It has it's plusses and minusses inherent to it. Perhaps his mood will effect things, but I think it'd be fun and FUN to try and prevent your crazy wizard from entering your steel stockpile with his crazy "iron touch" but instead trying to redirect him to your buttload of copper stockpile.

As for the fireballs, having him on the ramparts throwing fireballs at invading goblins woudl be great. Having him chuck a fireball at a kobold thief sneaking around your booze stockpiles...not so much.

I think that makes it more random and wonderfully fun, turning the positives into the negatives and the negatives into the positives.

One dwarf's invading army is another dwarf's wandering iron deposit.

Why is there always a drive to bring historical accuracy into DF? Correct me if I'm wrong, but our industrial history is OURS, not the dwarves. We didn't have to deal with zombie carp and rogue unicorns eating us up.

I think trying to shoehorn in human historical achievements is a bad idea. Dwarves are their own people, let them develop their own history

Aren't you supposed to email those in?

It's still a pretty badass change

What makes you play LCS?

What is most fun about it?

What would you like to see more of?

Fun, "mindless" challenge
Random fun
OTT craziness at uber-levels. Your guy gets pretty "Keanu Reeves The One" badass when you get his stats up, so it'd be fun to see that in the game.

Being able to dodge so well that you make opponents shoot each other. Be so skilled at martial arts you can disarm your opponents (both figuratively by making them drop their weapons and literally by ripping their arms off). Being able to bluff so well that the confused conservative goes liberal.

Also, would be nice if genetic mutants you freed ran around on the screen like ENEMY squads, and that they would fight everyone, not just liberals.


I envision you opening up a gate like in 28 days later and the mutant apes go wild and kill everyone.