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Alright, time for another report. In my first 0.2 test-fort, I noticed that the law-giver and other notable leader of my civilization were elves. I know that it's just an issue of abductees living long enough to outnumber the abducters or something, but I want to imagine that they're elves wearing stilts and big wire frames so that they look like ogres, while speaking in deep voices and assuring the populace that they're not doing any kind of death magic.

The new world I generated, with bugfixes to the religion system and the troll civ, was a world where ogres all but ruled. The ogre race single-handedly brought the world from the Age of Legends to the Golden Age! They also killed off most of the goblins and such, and since the world didn't have much in the way of wars (although abductions and thefts continued apace), clearly theirs was a mostly benevolent rule. Possibly the fact that they crushed a goblin civ under their heel around 40 years into worldgen had something to do with it.

I'll probably be working on the next bit of religious stuff next, including the ability to buff your ogres. I'll also implement an ogre-hating civ that gets along with dwarves, if I can think of a good idea. Etc.

At first, they call it the wagon. Then, they call it that big room near the food stockpile. Eventually, they call it that smooth room near the food stockpile, then a partially engraved room with a few tables and chairs in it. Eventually, they would describe it as something like:
A massive room, filled with rows of stone tables and thrones. All surfaces are covered in fine images of clouds, diamonds, elves taming eagles, etc. In between the rows of tables and chairs are aisles just wide enough to walk down, with occasional statues or other decorative furniture. Oh, and there's a door.

I tried both FLEEING and ATTACK (which I hoped would cause the troll to use it in combat). No dice. I'm just going to make their normal healing very fast and hope that they can heal before the fight is over.

Well, it's a start.
Is there a place on the wiki or somewhere where all of these usage hint tokens and stuff are?

Doubly so if it's a suggestion thread--most people think that it's better to add onto an old thread with the same idea than to clog up the suggestions forum with several threads about the same topic.

Back on topic...

Sounds like a badly disguised "The vampires are killing my recruits/legendary miners/legendary artisans!"
I just wish vampires were easier to spot.

On one hand, yes. It IS annoying when your legendary dwarves get bled dry by vamps. On the other hand, this provokes the fortress management (i.e. you) to go into overdrive looking for the vampire. If it only kills a few lowlives, you wouldn't care much. Vampires should know this. Therefore, a clever vampire would feed only on the elements of society which no one cares about--again, the new cheesemakers and such.
And vampires, hard to spot? Look for the pages of trinkets and inability to breathe. And being a former member of a large number of groups helps, too.

I really, really, really don't understand interactions. I want to make trolls transform themselves into trolls for short periods of time for regeneration, but, as that requires an interaction, I have no idea what to do. It probably requires a new kind of interaction, but I don't know where to start. Would someone mind helping me in the right direction?

If you describe the situation better, we can come up with a non-modding solution.

That happened to me, too. It lead to an...interesting playtest.