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I think this game would be right up the DF community's alley.  It's a old-school turn-based party RPG with perma-death, crunchy stats, and best of all, continual Alpha releases   Be still my heart!

I've been surprised how much I'm enjoying the early Alpha builds; it's a perma-death RPG where pushing your luck and losing some characters is actually the best strategy.  It's feature-poor at the moment, but I'm loving the concept and mechanics.

It's running on Kickstarter right now, and the Alpha's downloadable there.

http://kck.st/NhKUh1

Even with 550 years of history, the dragons that have come were pushovers.  The upside? Dragon Soap.  I like to imagine my dwarves on top of the battlements, scrubbing their armpits mockingly as the next dragon comes over the hill.

On the other hand, they're much more deadly when reanimated.  Zombie dragons don't bother with breath weapons, they just bite dwarf limbs off.  I lost three dwarves to one of those, in contrast to the 0 I've lost to three live dragons.

Yep, you can do the same thing in (j)obs.  That's how I got my beekeepers unstuck when they were standing around dying of thirst and hunger because they couldn't find their bees.  I hope beekeeping gets fixed soon; it's neat, but between the low value of the products, the long production chain, and the potentially dwarf-slaying bugs, I ended up taking down all my hives.  No more mead 

My fort has a neighboring Tower, and I've been getting regular zombie sieges.  I was finally able to kill one of the necromancers when a dwarven child bumped into the sneaking bastard on my workshop level.  The jerk punched the kid, right before my militia commander cut his skull in half with his recently manufactured -steel short sword-. 

Anyway, the question is, if I kill enough of the necromancers, does the Tower run out of them?  That is, are new necromancers generated on top of those existing at the end of world gen?  Mine seem to clearly be historical, what with their having names and mundane professions (the guy I killed was a Hunter.)

One non-burrow thing that might work is to designate a very small restricted traffic area around the booze.  Say you do it like this:

O = Barrel o'wine
R = Restricted square

RRR
ROR
RRR

To my knowledge, dwarves path to the 'nearest' drink when thirsty, and traffic zones affect that pathing.  So with the default restricted value of 25, any dwarf who senses a drink which is closer than (distance to wine cellar +23) will go drink that instead.  Of course, if your noble gets thirsty very far from his room, he won't drink from it either, but since he'll be eating and sleeping nearby, he would often be thirsty while in range of the cellar.  This would work best with his room placed a long way from meeting areas and other beverages.  If you're ok with assigning the noble himself to a burrow, you could control how far away from his cellar he would get.

In total, far more complicated that it's worth, but that's !!SCIENCE!! for you.

In the various combat logs for my dwarves who wear leather, I've yet to see a deflect message.  It's always something like 'the [weapon] chips the bone through the leather [armor item]', or worse.  I've taken to equipping my marksdwarves with metal armor when available, but if I don't have enough metal, am I just as well off leaving them unarmored as giving them leather?

You laugh and laugh at our boats.  So slippery, you said.  Look closer, for our boats are slick with the BLOOD OF YOUR KIN!

Unfortunately, the two weregoats are walled in in separate rooms, so a breeding experiment would involve exposing my other dwarves to significant danger in the relocation process. 

As for the baby, apparently it was infected as it died.  It came back as a ghostly were-goat dwarf baby.