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[Ranzear]

Did I miss the memo where dwarves are now aquatic creatures?

Water in a cave or mine is always a bad, terrible, foreboding, bad thing. Dwarves are subterrainean creatures and thus should be deathly scared of water in most cases, besides those that fish or draw water obviously.

Dwarves are also very dense creatures, canonically. 3-4 feet tall and still 300 pounds, not to mention the rugged standard by which they make anything they wear. 'Floating' is not in their lexicon.

I still think wet natural stone of certain types (almost anything but granite or obsidian) adjacent to pressurized water (2z+ deep) should seep. Not like aquifer or fortifications, but enough to half-flood a 3x3 room in a season would make enough of a problem.

[Slogo]

Well I think you make some good points 2-7 water isn't really pressurized, at least not above standard atmospheric pressure. If it was all of the oceans and lakes would 'shoot' water up.

Also regardless of a dwarves ability to swim some of the mechanics should be in place for the other races.

[Pilsu]

Dwarves already climb out if they know how to swim. Not being able to get out of a river if you can't swim seems par the course

[Sensei]

IMO, You should be able to tell them to learn how to swim so that they do pull themselves out. While it may seem realistic hat dwarves hate bodies of water, is it really logical that the only way to make them learn to swim is via bizarre exploits, and then they're fine?

Besides, they're stupid enough to do a lot of things worse than get in the water. Myself, I'd like a champion that can swim so I can deal with those damn carp...