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Hm, maybe also some kind of "maddok" caste that gets big bonuses for mechanics and medicine but has a higher chance of going nutty...a "holy" caste which might be able to ignore some bad side effects of religious reactions...a "noble" caste of some kind?

I've removed dwarven playability, added stone undiggabilty for all stones except ores and some other, mostly random, stones. I also added custom profession names. Elite warriors will be named after fleshy megabeasts; "bow"-ogres will be Roc Warriors, spearogres will be Dragon Warriors, axeogres will be Hydra Warriors, and I don't know what elite klubogres will be called. Elite knifeogres wil be given the derogitory title of Goblin Warrior.

Hmm, idea: Ogres tend to be,err,close in the family. What if there were a "degenerate" ogre caste that shows up around 15% of the time that is basicly a uninteligent oaf? Alternitivly, a special reaction can be preformed which has a 50% chance of turning Ogres into faster, more skilled specimens and the rest turn into hostile degenerates?

Interesting ideas. I'll work with the first...how about around one in five (for a nice, small number) ending up nearly brain-dead, but big and strong? They wouldn't do well with professional skills, but they could still learn most military skills.

As to "necessary" tags, you also need [NAME:whatever:whatevers:whatever], DESCRIPTION:whatever], and some other stuff if you want it to be kinda interesting. I usually copy another creature's raws, change the name, and go from there. It usually works well.

Okay, so if we had non-obsidian macuahuitls...first off, I'd need a name that I don't need to check every time I write it, most likely; second off, that might be worth doing. Yeah, it'd probably be just a slashing weapon, but as you mentioned, RL macuahuitls were rather sharp (according to Wikipedia, they could cut off a horse's head in a few blows), which would make them...kinda deadly when used by creatures as strong as ogres.

Looking over the poll again, I notice that a majority of people agree with me. In a bit, I'll add a poll about adding Fortress Defense races in. Unless RL intervenes.

Maybe, but they're sentient and part of a civ, so...
Anyhoo, you'd need to pit a male and a female somewhere so that they aren't in cages (critters in cages don't breed). And then the mother might attack the babies...

It's a bit impractical. Do it.

To my knowledge, any females who lay eggs cannot give birth to live young. Actually, that's the case for males too, but that's more normal.

Make a big pit, a few z-levels deep and lined with glass block walls. Pit all goblin prisioners, after being stripped of all clothes and gear, into said pit. The goblins will get hurt, but won't die. Add all of their critters, after the trolls and such have also been stripped. Also add in all other creatures you catch that you can't otherwise use. Make a room up above that you can dump down into the pit; burrow unruly nobles and such in said room, and pull the lever. Make sure that the area around the glass block walls is a dining room or other meeting area--glass block walls are clear as, um, glass, but creatures won't spook dwarves through them (because, according to the game, only windows and fortifications don't block line-of-sight.) Add in refuse, bones of idiotic warriors, and a bit of water for fun, and enjoy.

To strip goblins of gear, you have a couple choices. You can d-b-c and d-b-d over the cage they are in after being caught, then unselect the cage; OR, if you go over towards the gobbos when they first appear, 'v'iew their 'i'nventory to look at it, then hit enter, d, and escape for every item you want to have stripped from them on capture. Simply d-b-c over the cages when they're caught.

I'm going to take a little break, listen to suggestions, maybe add a little more religion reactions and/or some more hulks, and relax my building a dwarven fort in a terrifying, aquifered shrubland.