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[slothen]

Sigh. Is there a way other than preventing their sight to the gobbos to stop them from running around in panic? I want them to be able to observe the .. festivities.

They'll only get scared as the goblin falls past them.  Because they can't see through the clear glass floors (although its a nice touch).  They can only see through actual glass windows, which are buildings.

Make the Viewing Area a designated timewasting zone. No task means no "Urist McDwarf cancels task: Saw scary goblin". It's probably a bad idea to make the arena viewable from, say, your fort's major hallway intersection.

So like set a meeting area with no furniture will make that work?  That's cool, although unless stuff dies instantly they won't be able to actually view the death.

[caddybear]

Oh in that case I'll just come up with a design that will have the falling goblins ( well and all the other fortress defense nasties ) behind the scenes, so to speak.

I'll name it Slothen Arena.

[rtg593]

Not really special, but I build an actual cemetery, underground, of course. Rows in individual plots with coffins in them, once all death items are placed inside, I floor over the opening and place a memorialized slab to the dead on top.

It was kind of a last ditch effort, at first, dwarves were still upset over the buried friend, so I put a slab on top and they all got ecstatic. Standard now :p

Edit: oh hey, Slink, you could also make a temple to the deity of balance, just make it symmetrical and build it on top of a single up/down staircase tower :p

[slothen]

Oh in that case I'll just come up with a design that will have the falling goblins ( well and all the other fortress defense nasties ) behind the scenes, so to speak.

I'll name it Slothen Arena.

    Since the falling-chute seems to be from a room above the dining room, and going through the center, just place clear glass block walls in the 8 tiles surrounding the falling path.  THen your dwarves won't be interrupted, you don't have to move anything, and you get the benefit/illusion/satisfaction of pretending that they CAN see the goblins as they fall.  Besides, if the falling happens somewhere else, the gobbo won't be strategically positioned right in the middle of the floor beneath the hall.