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THE PAIN

Quote from: Sean Mirrsen on November 09, 2008, 07:03:44 pm

And those that like the current way should not fear - if I understood it right, it will also be possible to hit several organs at once with, say, a sword, meaning attack realism. All we need to do then is have bows fire log-size arrows!

You mean like the ones Seargent Detritus of the Ankh-Morpork city watch used before his clusterbolts?

Well that was just a ballista, really. Unfortunately, however, dramatic law states that the biggest and coolest weapons must never be appropriately used by good guys. If they are used at all, it is only to show the enemy recovering from/evading/blocking it in order to demonstrate how badass they are. I can't think of one time where the weapon did anything more than scare the crap out of everyone.

SIGH

The Mengthiz Letters


Dear Ma and Pop,

It's beene quite a while since I wrote to you, and for this I am sorry. When I last wrote I spouke about a new outpost being instaled with in the Dour forrests, with me as one of the primarie Miners--me, youre little Lolor!

this is a place fabled forre it's terible dangers, but do not be disheartened. Things are not so bad once we are out of the sun, as Ingish would say. We dig through ore-rich mudstone, which is in, my opinion a solid and goode rock.

~Signed, with love and all prais due to Dakas Canyonjade
Lolor Mengthiz



Dear Ma and Pop,

Our woodecutter has met with an unfortunate circumstans wich I dare not relate for fear of putting Pop in one of his Ways. Insted, please note that I have taken up engraving and have been dutifully recording the histories and romans of are glorious civilization and of the tales of our lord Canyonjade, giver of wealth and keeper of gems, may he never inadvertently strike magma. Amenne

~Signed, with love and all prais due to Dakas Canyonjade
Lolor Mengthiz



Dear Ma and Pop

I have taken a name for myself, as is custom, and frome now on may be adrest as Koji, tho I will not fault anyone for calling me by Lolor, which is a goode name in all respects and I am thankful for it. even though it often was mayde fun of in my girlhood

I have ardentely beene digging, ensuring that all dwarfs do live within humble corridores and such, as is custom, and that no commoner myself included lives above their station. it Is tough, unrewarding work and thus the only kind that matters

~Signed, with love and all prais due to Dakas Canyonjade
Koji Mengthiz



Dear Ma and Pop

To-day I strode out in to the forrest to confront an horrible foe--a werewolf! The fiend had laid low a wrestler sent to us from the mountainhomes and it was my duty to retrieve his bodie. Let it be said that I posess Ma's strength of arm as well as Pop's fleet-footed doging, and with but few strokes of my pickaxe subdued the man-beast.

to-night I will begin plaiting my beard as is custom for one who has beene victorious in battle, though I shall keep the plaites simple and modest as befits my statione.

~Signed, with love and all prais due to Dakas Canyonjade
Koji Mengthiz

Sign me up. There's a narrow chance I won't be able to complete my turn, but I'll know beforehand and let you guys know to skip me if that's the case.

Describing a creature more fully does mean that it will provide a different challenge. Currently there are only two types of creatures--crossbow-susceptible and non. It'll be interesting to have squads of different type of dwarves on call for different types of monsters (maces for skeletons, axes for antmen, swords and spears for goblins, etc). It will also add to the challenge of the game by necessitating the use of more than just one kind of tactic.

Personally, I'd love for there to be more HFS--digging up Uldaman-style ruins on accident, or breaking into a cavern full of crystalline spider monsters would be pretty cool, especially if these things carried rewards (IE artifacts and good gear lying around in the ruins, plus art and history).

Hell, I can see a point in the far future where you discover a ruin, then take control of an individual dwarf adventurer, go explore it, claim the stuff you find, and either sell it to other civs or go back to fort mode and make a museum to house it all.

Some fort designs work really well with individual bedrooms--one of my favorite forts had a bedroom assigned to a dwarf, and stairs in his room that led up to either a communal work area, or if he was a master, a private workshop that only he could use. Below the room was a communal storage area, and everyone who lived on the same block did the same thing.

So my metalsmiths would all live under a set of forges and smelters and above a bar/ore/weapon/armor stockpile area. It worked really nicely. The only time they had to go anywhere was for meals, and even that could have been avoided.

I reccomend the dinosaur mod, or an updated version thereof (I last used it in an old 2d version). Even the herbivorous dinosaurs were pretty belligerent, and a pack of deinonychus was enough to induce xkcd levels of terror.

That is a giant dwarf.