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Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on September 29, 2012, 09:26:46 am

Quote from: Tirion on September 29, 2012, 08:48:24 am

One of our planters was found dead. Grau says it was old age.

Holy crap, a dwarf died of old age? What is WRONG with this fortress?

Long history, old migrants to begin with.

So? You're playing DF, in a well-established fortress, with necromancers sieging it, and you need OLD AGE to kill your dwarves?
(And dwarves can die of old age anywhere from 150-170.)

...That's just ASKING for a harpy to come through the gate...or fly over it...

Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on September 29, 2012, 06:13:00 am

Quote from: Hanslanda on September 29, 2012, 12:32:31 am

Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on September 29, 2012, 12:25:57 am

Quote from: Hanslanda on September 29, 2012, 12:11:06 am

... What the hell are we doing now?

I... I don't know. I... Turn into... A red dragon?

Grr...

Red. RED. We'll do some cool 'Voltron' power combination thing or something.

...How familiar are you with D&D dragons?

Ssssssh, there is no need to bring up that petty rivalry when we have something delicious a greater threat delicious to combat.

>Be suspicious of the red dragon

Taking control of a loaded creature is much different than locating some citizens that a player might want to play, listing them, and then handing control over to the player.

I'd still like to be able to generate adventurers ex nihlo, though otherwise this sounds good.

Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on September 29, 2012, 07:30:43 am

Quote from: thegoatgod_pan on September 29, 2012, 01:51:11 am

Necromancer adventurers will spontaneously raise the dead, who will be friendly to them and eat the other dwarves. Sadly they suffer from no booze slowness.

Wrong; they only raise the dead when they want to.

Which is everytime they see a body part or corpse in my experience. While this can be very useful in army training, they need to be kept away from corpses, refuse piles and workshops with body parts.

Quite true, but weren't you talking about adventurer necromancers? As in, controlled by the player?

Quote from: Volfgarix on September 28, 2012, 12:42:53 pm

My only injure is a loss back right teeth.
I hope this is at least not bad score.

Terrible. Your skin didn't even melt off! No broken bones, no compound fractures, no loss of movement or nerve damage...

All injuries vanish whilst fast-traveling.

Troll

I could make clay tablets, but engraving ANYTHING on them other than dead dwarves' memorials is, AFAIK, impossible.