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It doesn't surprise me, really. I've thwarted every kobold thief that has ever shown up at any of my forts. They need to be better thieves. The buzzards and macaques are better at stealing than kobolds are.

I haven't quite figured this out; sometimes a dwarf will continue to own their items after death, and sometimes they won't. If you loo(k) at the item and view its description, it should tell you if anyone owns it. If so, then there's not much you can do. You can head off the problem by building and assigning tombs ahead of time, and putting cabinets in the tombs. I've noticed dwarves storing dead folks' items for them this way. But you have to assign the tomb before the guy dies.

   (*) Stopped the game from treating every tool like a container for stockpiles/adv mode
   (*) Stopped hive product collection from removing hive building tag
   (*) Stopped birds from claiming multiple nest boxes when a nest box is deconstructed
   (*) Made pastured animals spread out more during grazing and allowed pets to be grazed
   (*) Fixed situation where some stockpiled items were not available to jobs (lye, etc.)
   (*) Made llama/alpacas get sheared properly
   (*) Stopped masons from using clay
   (*) Made potters apply their skill to statues etc. properly
   (*) Added a clay category to stone stockpiles and cut some inorganics out
   (*) Added wax to food stockpiles pressed material category
   (*) Added wax goods option to finished goods pile
   (*) Made empty pots go to the furniture pile
   (*) Made pots available for brewing
   (*) Stopped pet/tame vermin from spawning many copies
   (*) Made pen/pasture interface give status of animals (caged, etc.)
   (*) Sheep text lines up with there shearability now

My prayers is answered. These were all of my biggest annoyances in .19.

I've got a theory that there are three triggers -- population, created wealth, and exported wealth -- and that you have to hit at least two of them for the sieges to start.

Something I've always hated in stock fantasy is the concept of "good races" and "evil races", especially when there's no real explanation why.

"Look, a band of unarmed sleeping goblins! We outnumber them for now, let us slay them pitilessly in the name of all that is good!"

Quoted for truth. At least Tolkien's orcs were cruel and brutal because they were debased and tortured until all they knew was cruelty and brutality.

Wait, what? That hasn't worked for me.

Fantasy as a literature genre IS broken. When a genre called goddamn 'fantasy' is one of the most formulaic ones available, it  must be.

My Gawd, yes. This is the main reason I love Stephen King's The Dark Tower, even though the quality drops sharply after the first book: it's something different, at last. I'm in the process of trying to fix this on the RPG front with a couple of my games-in-design as well, so it's very encouraging to hear somebody else voice my thoughts like that. Thanks, Cotes!