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The first demons I found were Chocolate Demons, just in time for Easter.

I got a forgotten beast that was a dinosaur with chocolate scales. I laughed...then I realized that's because the game has a 'chocolate'colour. Still, hilarious.

Forsaken Beasts are just wow...some are creepy, some are ridicolous.
 
I generated a few worlds with 1000 titans/megabeasts just to check them out. Interstingly, it looks like not all animals are eligible to be used as a base.



I think Toady watched some japanese monster movies while coding this, since many of the beasts would be quite at home there

Some scripts/options to have world parameters change with time would be interesting. 

A simple rule could be something like 'Every X years, modify (specific world paramater)by +/Y', where Y can be a constant or a random value.

More complex scripts/world rules would be nice though, including being able to have cycles/steps, such as the world first getting hotter, then colder.

I also like the idea of 'armageddon' caused by a sudden increase in megabeasts.
One could also increase the savegery/evil terrain paramter all across the world to get similar effects.

Bactria is a place (in central Asia,) the word "Bactrian" might not make sense in a randomly generated world.

That's why I think Toady decided to use 'one humped' and two-humped'camel. I think it would be ...more immersive to avoid references to real-world countries/regions.

I've had a bit of a related issue when I was working on my personal mod and decided to have both 'african' and 'asian'elephants in game but wasn't going to name them like that...in this case I used 'bush' and 'forest'instead of african and asian.

This is just *GREAT*. I strongly suggest it's placed in the online wiki, by the way. It would be very useful. Also, maybe someone make a wiki page for putting online sets of parameters to generate specific worlds.

In a normal-sized world, generated until year 10000. There was a female ettin called Maquema who was the only ettin in the world.
She started causing troubles in the year 2. In 9996, during the Elven Age which had lasted for something like 9800 years, she committed her 633rd rampage, stealing a wild strawberrry. Pretty impressive...and so weird the Elves didn't find any adventurer to kill her.

Also interesting is that she didn't kill ANYONE in these 10000 years.

I love good quotes too...


"I resigned. I will not be pushed, stamped, filed, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own."
-Number Six, The Prisoner.

"Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of the fools, but the fools do not imitate the successes of the wise."  Marcus Porcius Cato, ca 160 BC

"The earth is degenerating these days. Bribery and corruption abound. Children no longer mind parents. Every man wants to write a book, and it is evident that the end of the world is approaching fast." Assyrian tablet, 2800 BC(not sure if it's really a quote, but I found it...funny and ironic)

"Men willingly believe what they wish." (Julius Caesar)

"Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is very good company by the way." (Halifax)

"One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words." Goethe

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man".(George Bernard Shaw)

"Crom, I have never prayed to you before. I have no tongue for it. No one, not even you, will remember if we were good men or bad. Why we fought, and why we died. All that matters is that today, two stood against many. Valor pleases you, so grant me this one request. Grant me revenge!
And if you do not listen, the HELL with you!" (Conan in the "Conan the Barbarian"movie, obviously)

(long one)
"They are irreverent to the gods and disobedient to our edicts, lenient as they are. For we allow none of them to be dragged to the altars unwillingly... It is therefore my pleasure to announce and publish to all the people by this edict, that they must not abet the seditions of the clergy ... They may hold their meetings, if they wish, and offer prayers according to their established use ... and for the future, let all people live in harmony ... Men should be taught and won over by reason, not by blows, insults, and corporal punishments. I therefore most earnestly admonish the adherents of the true religion not to injure or insult the Galilaeans in any way ... Those who are in the wrong in matters of supreme importance are objects of pity rather than" of hate ..." (Julian the Apostate, regarding the Christians of his time)

I think gods can take the form of either the race that worships them OR of animals of an appropriate biome - so a god of earth might appear as a mountain animal, a god of lakes as a carp..