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Agreed.

Seems like a good idea. A few notes:

--Food: Well, how do adventurers normally get food? Either they steal it from a random NPC, or they hunt animals and eat the edible bits. Some way to interrupt training to go hunting, either manually when food runs out or automatically, would make sense. The same goes for plant-gathering, once implemented.
--Time: Maybe just assume that the amount of XP you get is limited by the amount of time you have. If you work five in-game minutes before starting the montage starts, and we assume that you work ~9 hours a day at practicing, then the XP you get is multiplied by 108 times the number of days.
--Duration: You should b able to set this, i.e. "Train for X Days."
--Ammunition: If you don't have a net gain or loss of items while doing the training thing, nothing happens. Net gains result in you gaining those items, probably stored in the cave/house/whatever you're staying in; net losses make you lose the arrows or whatever you're using. If you run out of something, you're booted out of the training montage. This should be ignored for food and water, which should have its own counter.
--Storage: Stuff you stashed in a cave or your house should count for consumption purposes, like a cache of food or a couple quiverfulls of arrows you have stored in your house (or whatever house you're sleeping in).
--Random Events: Important ones, like nemeses coming to interrupt you, should interrupt your training montage briefly. You get whatever fraction of the gains or losses you've gone through so far and then need to deal with them. You may restart the training montage whenever it would be safe to travel and when you could do the montage.


By the way, congrats. This is one of the most original ideas I've seen in a long time.

I guess I should have been more clear when I made my tounge-in-cheek request, but I was imagining something like a D&D gold dragon. That's where my username came from, actually--I first used it on the GitP forums, which has a lot of D&D players for obvious reasons.

Everyone posting as me is insane! Unless they're implying that they are insane through my words, in which case they are as sane as people get around here.

Protip: Minecarts.

Easy enough to do through modding.

Create a new noble position for your fortress that is punishment exempt, but is also able to make, say, 10 mandates each. Ignore all mandates.

This will cause everyone who isn't in this protected noble position to be found guilty of a crime and then dragged off to prison.

If you have enough of these protected nobles and enough mandates per noble, their sentences may increase faster than they can complete their sentences. So they may get 1.1 days of extra time to serve for crimes for each 1 day they spend in prison.

I just tossed the dwarves into a foul pit in the ceverns, where they had to grow their own food from a plump helmet seed I left down there and drink cavern water.

Give it to your CoTG. It's better than anything s/he'd have anyways...