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You could make them immobile.

Or create a "potion" item that can react in a custom reaction, creating a boulder of a material that vaporises instantly and gives the syndrome in question.

Maybe you should just deal with it, like a REAL dwarf! And by that, I mean set up a magma-drowning chamber, haunted with the ghosts of previous migrants and full of their ashes, until you have goblins and such to add to the mix.

I was thinking about adding in trolls. Hm, fast healing you say? Maybe I could have them transform themselves every so often for a tick, and have them fully healed that way? That would make them scary enough without much in the way of weapons.

Maybe you could make a "machine gun" item that could be used in a reaction that creates a cloud of gas that turns dwarves who breathe it into machine gunners, and stuff like that?

I decided to make ogres size 150,000+, and to make their skin as tough as leather and their bones as tough as stone. I pitted one unarmed, unarmored ogre against six dwarves in full iron armor, with iron axes and Proficient levels of axedwarf, dodger, fighter, armor user, shield user, and maybe something else. The dwarves were lopping off limbs until one chopped it in half. Ten unarmed, naked ogres, plus one unarmored ogre with Adequate fighter and Novice maceman with a platinum mal (giant, mace-skill-using maul) against twn dwarves outfitted as above resulted in eleven dead ogres and one unconscious dwarf. It needs some tweaking. I'm going to try making a fortress, anyways.

Hugo: Hm, that's a good idea. The ethics are modified goblins ethics, so we're good there. I'm working on the bone things, via a religion system. Of course, that'll need to be rebalanced from my original idea, seeing as I was basing it on the assumption that shovils would be cut...

Anyhoo, work continues apace. I'm currently out-of-town, but I brought my laptop so i'll be able to continue. I've got the very base of  the aforementioned religious system, tweaked goblins and elves a bit (you'll now get goblin snatchers and siegers as ogres; maybe the two races will fight if they siege simultaneously?), and added a custom reaction that restricts ogres from getting iron. I'll keep up the good work and release what I've got when I get back to town.