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What I'm experimenting with atm is swapping orcs and goblins, by giving the Orcs names, [babysnatcher], etc. and removing same from the goblins, then swapping the progress triggers. I'm having a little troble making it work though. THe gobbos keep going extinct.

As for traps, I like them, but they're so easy to abuse, I decided to look for a compromise. Cage traps are single shot and require a steady supply of cages, while importation is a bit of a chancy way to supply traps. (Capture is more problematic still, because without traps, a strong force is needed.

Maybe we shouldn't worry too much about turtling. It has contibuted to the lack of epicness in the more recent sparkgears.

I'm going to try to start the 2nd. I'll likely be too dwarfy on the first to play.

A kobold thief killed one of my champions once by cutting off his head.

Pin the Spear on the Elf?

Part of my preparations for Project Cube involved digging channels in strategic locations in order to control the demolition of my environment.  As I did this, I pulled a Wile E Coyote.

I intended for an anchor point to remain solid and to have the map collapse around it.

Intead, the map remained whole and I collapsed my anchor point.

The one and only time I ever killed 182 dwarves simultaneously.

You, sir, are awesome

Generally, I give dwarves jobs that won't conflict. For example, because of the way I butcher, I rarely have an issue with hides rotting. Thus, I have one dwarf do both tasks. Hauling takes up so much dwarfpower, I try to keep the labor pool smaller.

Quote from: Lord Shonus on December 25, 2009, 03:13:51 am

Only the largest branch. Some of Salavatore's work owes very little, and, of course, Harry Potter owes next to nothing.

I'm assuming you mean R.A Salvatore.  I haven't read much of his work but isn't it mostly Forgotten Realms stuff; which is a D&D setting?

There's a huge list of authors in the back of one of the 1st edition D&D books.  I should get to reading some of them.  I guess a good rule of thumb for avoiding Tolkien-influenced fantasy is to read anything that was published before the 1950s.

Most of his novels are FR, but he also wrote a series called Demon Wars that had no dwarves, the Elves were completely different from Tolkien, and magic came from (supposedly)sacred gems.

well, I name my dwarves alphabetically based on Migrant waves, with babies always getting the name theme of the parents.

starters: A
1st wave: B

etc.

Also, I always build a big courtyard wall around the entrance to my fort.

What do you do if Charlie has a kid with Erin?