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Have the Blood types use the personalities they're named after

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Have them completely different from the stereotype

1 (20%)

Use the stereotype personalities, but change a few slightly

1 (20%)

I don't agree with the idea of using Blood-Types as Castes at all

2 (40%)

Have Blood-Types as a Trait and Let the Castes be Personality Traits

1 (20%)

Have Blood-Types as a Trait and forget about Castes

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Total Members Voted: 5

[Courtesy Arloban]

In my current mod I have the blood-types as castes, a little backstory is in order.

Backstory

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

When I first started using RPG Maker on my Playstation, there was a tag called gender, that had no effect on gameplay, and could be a lot more than two options, I decided to use it to display my characters bloodtype as well as gender.  I didn't even know about the japanese bloodtype significance.  I thought about using it for castes in the previous versions of dwarf fortress, but I instead chose to use castes for hybrids(I still do mules<donkey>, hinnys<horse>, and zorses<zebra> that way under the mother's race).

Then I got around to doing it, but knowing how anachronistic it is I looked up new names to give the blood other than ABO.  I named them after the four humors and prefixed "Red" to the rh-positives.  I gave pop ratios based on the countries added together.

I saw that there were different personalities attributed to different blood-types, and thought that would be perfect to model, then I found the weird sites...  ...rh-negative is really rare.  But then I found out about blood discrimination in japan, and figured I should just shuffle the personalities around.  Problem is the names I chose for the blood is personalities, and it could confuse players.

[Hugo_The_Dwarf]

Could make "Color" descriptors that are called "(blood-type)" then make a tissue that is under the normal brain tissue called BLOODT so you could use:

      [SET_TL_GROUP:BY_CATEGORY:BRAIN:BLOODT]
   [TL_COLOR_MODIFIER:(color(bloodtype)):1]
            [TLCM_NOUN:blood:SINGULAR]

so it would show up as

Dwarf 1's Blood is AB+

EDIT:
Of course FB might have "It's feathers are B"

[Putnam]

Not quite related, actually, but here's something similar from my MSPA mod:

Code: [Select]

[SELECT_CASTE:MALE_RED]
[SELECT_ADDITIONAL_CASTE:FEMALE_RED]
[USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:BLOOD1:BLOOD_TEMPLATE]
[STATE_COLOR:ALL:MAROON]
[BLOOD:LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:BLOOD1:LIQUID]
[SELECT_CASTE:MALE_BROWN]
[SELECT_ADDITIONAL_CASTE:FEMALE_BROWN]
[USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:BLOOD2:BLOOD_TEMPLATE]
[STATE_COLOR:ALL:DARK_BROWN]
[BLOOD:LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:BLOOD2:LIQUID]
[SELECT_CASTE:MALE_YELLOW]
[SELECT_ADDITIONAL_CASTE:FEMALE_YELLOW]
[BLOOD:LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:BLOOD3:LIQUID] (This is actually defined farther down)
[SELECT_CASTE:MALE_LIME_GREEN]
[SELECT_ADDITIONAL_CASTE:FEMALE_LIME_GREEN]
[USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:BLOODLIME:BLOOD_TEMPLATE] Was added later.
[STATE_COLOR:ALL:LIME]
[BLOOD:LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:BLOODLIME:LIQUID]
[SELECT_CASTE:MALE_DARK_GREEN]
[SELECT_ADDITIONAL_CASTE:FEMALE_DARK_GREEN]
[USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:BLOOD4:BLOOD_TEMPLATE]
[STATE_COLOR:ALL:JADE]
[BLOOD:LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:BLOOD4:LIQUID]
[SELECT_CASTE:FEMALE_JADE_GREEN]
[SELECT_ADDITIONAL_CASTE:MALE_JADE_GREEN]
[USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:BLOOD5:BLOOD_TEMPLATE]
[STATE_COLOR:ALL:GREEN] Colors between this and the normal green intentional.
[BLOOD:LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:BLOOD5:LIQUID]
[SELECT_CASTE:MALE_TEAL]
[SELECT_ADDITIONAL_CASTE:FEMALE_TEAL]
[USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:BLOOD6:BLOOD_TEMPLATE]
[STATE_COLOR:ALL:TEAL]
[BLOOD:LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:BLOOD6:LIQUID]


[Courtesy Arloban]

It's really just a way of making some of my humans different from each other without basing it on races.  I didn't name my castes any different, they're divided into male and female for the names, but the description varies for them reading what blood type they are at the end.
[DESCRIPTION:A medium-sized creature prone to great ambition. She is Red Choleric.]

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OO+  Red Choleric   870
AA+ Red Phlegmatic 525
AO+  Red Somnalent   350
BB+ Red Sanguine    150
BO+  Red Sanguinary 100
AB+  Red Melancholic  100
OO-  Choleric  165
AA-  Phlegmatic 99
AO-  Somnalent  66
BB- Sanguine 30
BO-  Sanguinary  20
AB- Melancholic  25

I actually have the framework setup, but there is no mental, personality, or appearance difference.
I could make it colors maybe a forgotten beast with Red Sanguine Feathers would sound better.

Not quite related, actually, but here's something similar from my MSPA mod:


Code: [Select]
   [SELECT_CASTE:MALE_RED]
   [SELECT_ADDITIONAL_CASTE:FEMALE_RED]
      [USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:BLOOD1:BLOOD_TEMPLATE]
         [STATE_COLOR:ALL:MAROON]
         [BLOOD:LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:BLOOD1:LIQUID]
   [SELECT_CASTE:MALE_BROWN]
   [SELECT_ADDITIONAL_CASTE:FEMALE_BROWN]
      [USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:BLOOD2:BLOOD_TEMPLATE]
         [STATE_COLOR:ALL:DARK_BROWN]
         [BLOOD:LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:BLOOD2:LIQUID]
   [SELECT_CASTE:MALE_YELLOW]
   [SELECT_ADDITIONAL_CASTE:FEMALE_YELLOW]
      [BLOOD:LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:BLOOD3:LIQUID] (This is actually defined farther down)
[SELECT_CASTE:MALE_LIME_GREEN]
   [SELECT_ADDITIONAL_CASTE:FEMALE_LIME_GREEN]
      [USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:BLOODLIME:BLOOD_TEMPLATE] Was added later.
         [STATE_COLOR:ALL:LIME]
         [BLOOD:LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:BLOODLIME:LIQUID]
   [SELECT_CASTE:MALE_DARK_GREEN]
   [SELECT_ADDITIONAL_CASTE:FEMALE_DARK_GREEN]
      [USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:BLOOD4:BLOOD_TEMPLATE]
         [STATE_COLOR:ALL:JADE]
         [BLOOD:LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:BLOOD4:LIQUID]
   [SELECT_CASTE:FEMALE_JADE_GREEN]
   [SELECT_ADDITIONAL_CASTE:MALE_JADE_GREEN]
      [USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:BLOOD5:BLOOD_TEMPLATE]
         [STATE_COLOR:ALL:GREEN] Colors between this and the normal green intentional.
         [BLOOD:LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:BLOOD5:LIQUID]
   [SELECT_CASTE:MALE_TEAL]
   [SELECT_ADDITIONAL_CASTE:FEMALE_TEAL]
      [USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:BLOOD6:BLOOD_TEMPLATE]
         [STATE_COLOR:ALL:TEAL]   
         [BLOOD:LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:BLOOD6:LIQUID]

That would be a good way to actually make Blood Types, but I'd need to use my castes, which don't seem so popular at the moment.

[King Mir]

Traits are hereditary, castes are not. Surely you want blood type to be hereditary.

[Courtesy Arloban]

Traits are hereditary, castes are not. Surely you want blood type to be hereditary.

Im getting the impression that people want blood-types, just not as castes.  And I had a thought that if the castes named after personality traits were completely seperate from an actual blood-type done as a trait then whether the blood-type matched the caste would be pure coincidence, but the caste would still match the personality!  I'll try to add that in as another option, but if I can't modify the poll consider the just show me the results to be that answer.

[Courtesy Arloban]

Traits are hereditary, castes are not. Surely you want blood type to be hereditary.

Blood-Types are hereditary but in order to simulate the way that they are inhereted, I'd need 4 traits just for the ABO rh positve/negative. I'd need One for the first letter, another for the second, and two more for rh positive/negative, becasue there is a recessive trait that can cause two rh positives to have a negative child.