Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[StagnantSoul]

Really, miners should not be legendary. Nobody makes legends about how fast someone mines rock.

Except for John Henry.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Henry_(folklore)

But I'll echo "Uncanny" as meaning "beyond Grandmaster, but through other means than experience". Perhaps it could be functionally different from Legendary as well: Let's say you have two Stone Crafters--one worked his way up the ranks to become a Legendary+5, the other got a strange mood as a child and became Uncanny. The Legendary has a high chance of creating an ☼item☼, and a low chance of creating an -item- . . . that is, both the upper AND lower ends of his quality curve have been adjusted to reflect his skill. The Uncanny, in contrast, has a high chance of creating an ☼item☼, and a high chance of creating an -item- : thanks to her mood, the upper limit of her quality curve has been raised to the maximum, but the only way she can raise the lower end is by actively practicing the art of stonecrafting.

I like that idea.

[Dorsidwarf]

Dwarves are underground critters at heart, of course they'd take great note of someone who can effortlessly split rocks and carve perfect tunnels with incredible speed!

[Egan_BW]

Then who is it taking note of the legendary gelders?

[stabbymcstabstab]

Then who is it taking note of the legendary gelders?

The smart ones.

[LordBaal]

I can't think un anything else but "The Uncanny Dwarf-Men"
With the 90' cartoon song playing on my head... For some reason all the mutants are called Mac Urist.
Nanananana nana
Narrator Voice "Mac Urist"

Nanananana nana
Narrator Voice "Mac Urist"

Nanananana nana
Narrator Voice "Mac Urist"

And so on...

[Damiac]

In a genre (fantasy) in which "adventurer" is a valid job, where enough people are interested in buying armor and weapons and plundering all the dungeons and tombs that supporting adventuring is the main driving factor of the world's economy, an animal suited to ambushing adventurers doesn't seem all that gamey.

It's not the treasure box monster that's gamey, it's the fact that treasure boxes are common enough to be used as camouflage that's gamey.

[LordBaal]

I think you posted on the wrong thread.

[Icefire2314]

why not just make legendary+5 "godly"

I don't like the sound of uncanny

[Shonai_Dweller]

why not just make legendary+5 "godly"

I don't like the sound of uncanny

Because if you end up in a world where the Gods are all pacifist butterflies and only tough atheist dorfs learn to fight, it'd be a bit silly.

[Grand Sage]

Really, miners should not be legendary. Nobody makes legends about how fast someone mines rock.

I agree that legendary is better than uncanny though. Uncanny does mean seeming supernatural, but legendary means story-worthy.

Aye, we be dwarves mate! Can ye think of any act more "dwarf" than good ol' mining? (Must be some tree fondling elf who made that post, I say)

[auzewasright]

What about changing legendary to "Uncanny" and making legendary+5 just legendary?