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Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on October 04, 2012, 07:26:50 pm

Quote from: GoombaGeek on October 04, 2012, 06:20:20 pm

Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on October 04, 2012, 05:10:44 pm

Why would a planet of plutonium explode? Unless you rolled a 1...

Because plutonium is really fissile

and there's a planet of it

so even if we need control rods and stuff normally the pressure and heat would probably explode it anyway

Make it weapons-grade plutonium and I'd buy it.

make your own nuclear reactor

...Wait, huh?

Boatmurdered; I have a better chance of someone caring, of dying a glorious, meaningful death, and of speaking the language.

Would you rather have a real-life dwarven artifact or oversee a real dwarven fortress?

Actions, anyone? I'd like to get this week finished so you can face off against Sin.

Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on October 04, 2012, 05:10:44 pm

Why would a planet of plutonium explode? Unless you rolled a 1...

Because plutonium is really fissile

and there's a planet of it

so even if we need control rods and stuff normally the pressure and heat would probably explode it anyway

Make it weapons-grade plutonium and I'd buy it.

Define" Socialist." I define it  as a mixed economy near the command-economy end of the spectrum. This seems reasonable for dwarves.

Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on October 02, 2012, 08:27:06 pm

Quote from: muzzz on October 02, 2012, 04:27:49 pm

Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on October 01, 2012, 09:56:21 pm

With a sufficient number of universes, the anthropic principal makes sense. With one universe with unvarying laws? Nope.

It's not about making sense, it's about logic. Any physical theory that attempts to explain our universe must imply our existence. Our universe, through our observations, dictates physics. Not the other way around.

Once you go beyond that boundary, you've veered off into philosophy.

I prefer a theory in which our existence is all but inevitable over one in which it is all but impossible. Does that count as philosophy? If so, I'm a philosopher. I think that it doesn't make a difference, because both the many-worlds theory and the Copenhagen interpretation are pretty much impossible to prove or disprove at the moment, AFAIK, what with their inherent invisibility.

Yeah, that's philosophy. Physics isn't really about preferences . But as for mine, I've always like the idea of a single but cyclical universe. Takes care of the statistics, and it avoids the heat death of the universe as well. Which is, literally, the saddest thing ever.

Where physics can't really prove themselves and laymen can't quite understand any evidence for or against each theory, I'll go with the one that doesn't seem to be trying to hide itself.

It's simpler as-is, but more detailed and potentially interesting/neat/strategy-based with a map. Your choice. Bear in mind that movement speeds, ranges, and likely an area for the mage's flare spell would be needed.
Of course, with a map, you could add in units that, say, have a powerful, short-range attack and move fast but are fragile and need to closely approach enemies, or a faster but flimsier cleric.

FYI, all moods with thread fail to tell you what kind they need. Just do everything you can to get every cloth you can, delay the dwarf, and prepare for the worst.