Bay 12 Games Forum

..And can't do anything besides deconstruction (which isn't attached to a job) before then.

But of course you may want to keep a fun experiment in mind for when you've grown into the game.

We're talking about made up creatures, who says they will be against everything not themselves once they do get the brains to have the potential to team up?

I usually die from something getting any part of any of the two legs I have, and many nerves are torn and my face is gone. And why is my brain a milkshake.

A weapon speed property for materials would indeed be coolbeans, and it'd fit right in with the whole plethora of new stuff the whole sharpness thing would add.

While yes, strength would eventually even out the speed penalty from higher weapon weights (That'd be another good addition to the suggestion.), it should still all boil down to the weapon attack multipliers.
Because let's be honest here, it all boils down to exactly what kind of movement you're making, and it would at least make for some kind of ability to balance it all modder-wise.

Urist has been unhappy lately, he was comforted by a waterfall lately, he was unable to drink from the beer waterfall lately.

He's beating you at rough example values (daggers are 3x longsword speed) and simple examples (strong dwarves give no shits about longsword size). The idea still stands if you ask me.
What could be expanded upon is a hard size minimum for weapons, which would restrict the one-handedness to creatures above it. Simply because the handle is too big for the ones smaller.

And then you could have tokens that specifically require the wielder to use two hands (OR MORE) lest they suffer a penalty, like with the aforementioned polearms.

We need more Wolf-copypasta-with-a-different-name-and-a-slightly-altered-size-and-speed #53203, not creatures with unique properties and gimmicks.

In other words, as I see this, this is actually something that may very well be needed.
Because for as weird of a mythical world that Dwarf Fortress is, it sure doesn't contain a big variety of mythical creatures, who possess unusual and/or unnatural gimmicks and twists.
Like, we have.. Uh, what do we have again? I mean there's blizzard men, who are mortal and feel pain - but are otherwise almost invincible.
I can't really think of more, simply because it's not like there are many.

Just as an example, you could just add another random critter, except it wouldn't be a completely dull critter. The critter would be, say the Wyverns somewhat inspired from HoMM3;
(Because it's personally my favorite take on "Wyvern"s.)
They would be rather strong, fast critters that fly with strong claws that cut deep when they decide to slash your Dorfs. (So far pretty average.)
But then they would have a poisonous bite that would cause strong, short-term dizziness and moderate pain, with the long-term effects being strong nausea and severe dizziness.

Nothing particularly interesting, it's just another critter, after all. But it's a critter that temporarily disables any dwarf it bites, and also it's a big, flying lizard.
How often do you see huge, flying lizards suddenly decide that they want a chunk of Urist McDoesStuff Quality Dwarf Meat?

The point here is that it doesn't have to be wildly mythological and way off the charts creatures. It can be, but it might as well be something like what I have just a couple of lines up.
Just something that has some properties. In this case a flying pest that's somewhat bigger than a dwarf, the gimmick with it being that it disables dwarves per-bite if they do survive.
I can't really see what would be so terrifyingly gamebreaking about adding big flying lizards that have a poisonous bite and who reside in swampy areas to the game.