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Anyway, why not just make filling waterskins/flasks faster? I don't see why it should take more than a day to fill one, they can only hold what, a gallon (~4 liters) at the most? I just assumed waterskins were buggy. The flask cabinet is a really good idea, though! It would be handy to get your soldiers out the door quickly, along with fixed armor stands and weapon racks.
Rollory suggested (in the DF RPG) that a shaven face was the "Mark of Shame" in dwarven culture, which makes a lot of sense to me...perhaps that could be an alternative to hammerings. A punishment for "misdemeanors," having your beard cut short. Maybe losers in the arena would have that done also.
And of course, it would allow decoration of beards, especially at parties or important functions (diplomatic meetings, trade meetings, the crown beard decorations), and armored beards to protect the throat!
Graceful rope bridges strung from tree to tree would give them a use for all that extra rope they seem to have. And how about living inside a big hollowed-out tree? At least have a throne room or something inside a tree, cause that's just cool and elf-like. Obviously the tree would have grown like that (with a little [magical?] help) and would still be living. Maybe just at the capital.
Maybe the work bridge could be used by all dwarves, but only allow a few trips before needing to be re-built.
And this thing: The ultimate human skull totem
There's no beating the Craftsdwarves Guild when it comes to crazy opulence.
[ August 30, 2007: Message edited by: Turgid Bolk ]
If one of your buildings does get suspended, you can just wait for the task to finish, then unsuspend. Anyway, good luck with it, it will be a pain in any case.
As another on the forum put it: stone stockpiles are made to punish dwarves. Just leave the stone where it lies, it doesn't get in the way, and saves a ton of dwarf-hours in hauling. Granted, it doesn't look that pretty, but just having a mason or catapult (eventually) take care of it is more efficient, if you must clean it up.
As for stockpiles being in the way, I'm not sure if I understand you correctly, but you can remove stockpiles using [p]
Anyway, I don't really care how people spell it, I understand what they mean either way. However, that website's entry for "dwarf" contains the following:
"Inflected Form(s):
plural dwarfs \ˈdwȯrfs\ also dwarves \ˈdwȯrvz\"
So it appears either will work. It does list the adjective as "dwarfish", but obviously some people (including myself) tend to use "dwarvish" and "dwarven" too. I'll leave it to the academics to pronounce the given usages proper or not.
(Can you tell I'm in favor of descriptive, rather than prescriptive dictionaries? 
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Originally posted by Fenrir:
<STRONG>Fantasy dwarfs are not Tolkien's idea. Dwarfs are from Medieval Scandinavian (a.k.a. Viking Age) mythology.EDIT: It is so "dwarfish"! Look it up at www.m-w.com
[ November 07, 2007: Message edited by: Fenrir ]</STRONG>
May I point to you Wikipedia:
"The plural form dwarfs has been traced to the 17th century. The alternative plural dwarves has been recorded in the early 18th century, but was not generally accepted until used by philologist J. R. R. Tolkien in his fantasy novel The Hobbit. Neither spelling represents the regular phonetic development of the Old English plural dweorgas, namely dwarrows [...] The form dwarfs is generally used for real people affected by dwarfism; the form dwarves is used for the mythical people described by Tolkien and others."
That article also uses the adjective "dwarvish" (though doesn't mention it's correctness in relation to dwarfish). You're right about the origins, though, Tolkien certainly did not invent them.
It has also been suggested a few times already.
What? Of course I have a demon! <.< >.> *pulls demon-shaped piece from his sleeve*
Demon, to the magma vent.
Also, WillNZ, for your information, the Hoary Realms of Baking rules are for novices and elves. Real dwarves use Pantshelm rules.
Let us settle this like gentleman. I challenge you to a winner-take-all round of tacticus. Elephant to G19.
[ November 07, 2007: Message edited by: Turgid Bolk ]
So, anyone up for forming a tacticus club? :p
Could be made in the craftsdwarf's workshop. Though I guess idols are pretty close to this already.
Maybe it wouldn't be craftable, but a dwarf might pick up a pebble of their favorite stone and polish it for themselves, and just keep it in their pockets or something. Just to add flavor. This is assuming dwarves will get pockets.
