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Quote from: Shonai_Dweller on April 23, 2016, 09:25:54 pm

The Elephant Man's achilles heel however is his trunk. Impossible to protect with armour. Will soon go flying off in an arc. Not sure if trunk damage will cause fatal bleeding or pain though...

Then what about other types of animalmen? Rhinocerous Men are significnatly smaller (a mere 1.5 tons to the elephantman's 2.5 tons) but they shouldn't have any such vulnerability.  (Their horn might get sheered off, but I don't think that counts for pain or bleeding.)  Plus, they're still over twenty times the size of a dwarf, and will have armor twenty times as thick.  (With candy robes over steel breastplates and candy mail FTW!)

Most of the trunk is cartilage, which is similarly lacking in pain receptors or blood vessels, meaning it's just one size 200 body part with some skin that you're going to lose in blood, which might have an impact if you're also getting two arms severed, but your arms aren't getting severed with full armor. The trunk does have the [SMELL] token though, which might mean you'd lose your not very useful sense of smell. So, you become more likely to lose your sense of smell as an elephantman, but there's no real danger other than that.

Well, I'd argue that any and all forts need good protection, what with goblins, dragons, megabeasts, semi-megabeasts, forgotten beasts, beastly beasts, and all manner of other horrific killing machines roaming around.

In short, there's a lot of killing, so even a library needs a good guard or 50 at the door.

Part of the embark scenario thing is going to be changing that. So goblins won't send all their armies to your tiny little tavern in the wilderness.

If you do make armor for an elephant man adventurer, then you're going to want very high armor user skill, as a singular piece of armor will be massive and probably completely weigh you down without very high armor user skill. However, there is a benefit to this, in that the armor is also incredibly thick. Elephant men are 1/4 the size of demons, and back when demons still took over human civilizations, just their clothing would be enough to block pretty much any weapon's attacks. So if you get actual metal armor, you'll pretty much just be invincible.

Now my question is, how much does a weapon's quality contribute to effectiveness?

With edged weapons it increases the sharpness, and it increases accuracy. Masterworks have double the accuracy, and artifacts have triple. Presumably the 4 quality levels between standard and masterwork go 1.2, 1.4, 1.6, and 1.8 in increases, but it's not explicitly known. For sharpness the standard quality is 50% of the max sharpness value of the material, and masterwork is 100%, artifacts also 100%. It might seem like it's not as important for blunt weapons, and it might be, but the increase in accuracy also most likely increases the effectiveness of the strike somewhat, based off of adventurer mode descriptions of attacks. Also double accuracy is a big deal for non-skilled soldiers.
I'll just also mention now that armor has the same increase to deflection as weapons have to accuracy.

I googled "braise" and meridian dictionary only refer to cooking.  Some websites links refer to it as medieval garments. So it's like a ladies' silk slip under skirts or something?

You probably should have been Googling Braies.

Yes this would be great. It's really difficult to find the bedrooms of specific dwarves.

Adding healthcare in adventurer mode would actually make health more difficult to manage. As it is travelling instantly heals any wounds that can be healed. If you travel and you still haven't recovered, there's nothing a doctor could do for you anyway. Also this is suggested really often, and rather than make new suggestion threads, you're supposed to go back to old ones if you have something to say about them.

Well there might be some way to influence it indirectly, but you can always make some yourself. Just decide on the location you want, and make a bunch of animal people adventurers in nearby civilizations, then immediately retire them.