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We would of course need the support of the locals. A good way to ensure that would be schools, employment, infrastructure projects etc.Pros outweigh cons. What good is saved money if we need to use it to hire mercenaries and deal with guerillas?
Pros: Not having a guerilla movement in our area, more and more loyal soldiers, good PR
Cons: Expensive
...No, those only happen by butchery. And if so, what's the problem?Create an undead horde, sic them on a town, raise the dead of both sides, repeat until the town runs out of people you can find. Raise all corpses you find as you leave town. Fast-travel between a few towns and other places as your undead army grows.Ehh, awesome idea, but wouldn't that generate unlimited hair zombies and things like that?
Imagine if it rained vampire blood, then make everyone drink from the murky pools.Vampires are not a race, they are individuals with an infectious syndrome. This syndrome disappears after the blood mixes with other blood of its race.
Once guilds and apprenticeship and stuff kick in a dwarf could take up apprenticeship with a (High/Grand)-Master until he has become Accomplished in his trade.All non-possession moods should grant legendary skills, and legendary dwarves should be possible outside of moods. I'm not saying that a year of mining should grant legendary skill, I'm just saying that a dwarf should have other options open to him.
Then, everything up to Grand Master should be done through self learning, and after receiving a Master title they can take in apprentices themselves.
But most importantly: i believe that becoming Legendary in a trade should no longer happen through experience gain, but only through strange moods at Master+ level.
This would make Grand Master the experience-cap and make Legendary dwarves actually legendary.
Alright, so bibliophiles spending tons of time reading would indeed lead to mass biblophile burnings once players get involved.
But there would not be many merchants or people who would need to read. How many of your dwarves need to read right now?
...Let me think about that. How were literacy rates in the 1300s or 1400s?Higher than you might think, particularly in cities. Your average farmhand or labourer could muddle through without, but skilled tradesmen, merchants and anyone else who owned property or needed to keep even the most rudimentary financial or inventory records would need at least to be able to read and write a little.
