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Give [GRASP] to the [MOUTH] body part.  (And watch all your dwarves equip gloves to their faces.)

I only adventure as modded creatures, and generally their weapons are built in (fangs, claws, huge club-tails, scythe-wings...), so it technically counts as unarmed combat.

And once breath weapons are an adventurer-performable interaction... oohh yes.

You don't need to fix it.  "Stray" just means the animal is tame but not the specific pet of any one dwarf.  That's a good thing, usually; if an animal is no one's pet, you can kill it without consequence for meat or as a meatshield, but if it's someone's pet, that dwarf will become upset when the animal dies (and you will not be allowed to mark it for butchering at all.)

As far as the FPS problem, the only things that I can recall that cause periodic FPS drops are temperature changes (sudden thaws or freezing), changes of season, or large amounts of moving liquid.  You might possibly have an underground liquid layer that's draining out into a layer beneath it, although usually that drains your FPS right from the moment you load up.

Also, re: the stairs issue--I've had cavern-cleanout military dwarves fall down the rickety stairways I use to open up the initial caverns (the fort itself is all spiral ramps, but I use simple stairs to get into the cavern so I can block them off easier) when they were attacked by a cave troll of some variety.  I didn't check the report to see whether the dwarf was already unconscious before he hit the ground and died, but he definitely died from falling down the stairs.

As far as I'm aware, the weight of an item just depends entirely on its size and the material it is made out of.  So the only way to influence it would be to make sure some shields are significantly larger than others.  There's no way to just set a weight for an item, other than always deliberately making it out of one particular material.

I'll add a chime in for Silent Hill 1 and 2, maybe 3.  SH 2 is in my opinion the best, and SH 1 is good (the aged graphics honestly just make it better I think, the incomprehensible textures and things add a layer of surreal creepy).  SH 3 is not bad, although it loses a lot of the scariness factor when they give you an automatic weapon, it's just not as good as the previous two.  SH 4 has its moments, but they're fewer and further between.  SH Origins is frustrating because it has some cheap tricks, and SH Homecoming was... a lot of poor decisions in a row.  SH Shattered Memories has a neat story, but I think it totally lost the atmosphere which makes it inferior.  Also, I hate blind mazes.

The main thing to watch out for in SH 1, 2, and 3, is the difficulty settings.  Combat difficulty should really always be left at minimum.  I can't remember if SH1 has separate combat/puzzle difficulty settings, but SH 2 and 3 do.  I like to crank puzzles up to max but leave combat at minimum, because the combat in the games is already bad enough without giving the monsters 3 million HP.  Really weird hit detection and sluggish controls means you do not want to be playing these games if you're looking for a fight--generally, running away is the better option.  I think that adds to the game rather than detracts from it, personally, since I prefer horror games where the atmosphere is what messes with you most, and the scariest parts are the long stretches where you don't see any enemies at all.

Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem is also good.  I wouldn't say it's as scary, per say, since you easily mow through whole hordes of enemies, but it has great atmosphere, and the insanity system is the best-done that I've yet seen in a game with the freakish hallucinations that pull some really great tricks time to time.  The main problem with that game is it's kind of rare, so very expensive to buy nowadays.

Someone mentioned The Void earlier, which I agree is a good game, although I found it utterly impossible without the extensive use of a guide--the resource management seems so demandingly finicky to me that I eventually just started using console commands so I didn't die of lack of color after saving in a spot where I literally could not get enough to survive to the next cycle.  Maybe I'm just too wasteful, I dunno.  It has some great freaky-enemies though, and the general weird atmosphere is well-done.

I had an idea. What if when you visited a station or colony, every one of your crew members (and maybe you) had a very small chance to fall in love with a local (opposite sex) ...

I don't think a game as non-mainstream as this has to worry about taking flack for having non-heteronormative relationships, if anything like that was added.  Besides, what if one of your crewmembers is a hermaphroditic plant-person or something? 

Post after a long time:

One of the tissues it's trying to use to hit things must be too thin.  Tissues that are too thin become basically a gas, which means they can't hit anything with them.  Check all your thicknesses on your tissues and see if you forgot one or set one to be ridiculously low.

Actually, as long as the tile in question is part of the "font," and not an image for a creature, you should be able to alter the colors in the DF file since DF doesn't really know that that tile isn't just another ASCII image. 

Go into data -> init -> colors.txt and alter the RGB values, and see if that alters your tiles for you.