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Author Topic: The Survivors: Or, why must Dwarf Fortress only model fantasy?  (Read 1135 times)

Qmarx

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The Survivors: Or, why must Dwarf Fortress only model fantasy?
« on: July 30, 2009, 09:00:21 pm »
So, The Survivors is the DwarFortressest novella I've read. 

Killer repeating crossbows - Check
Deadly Unicorns - Check
Every Soldier has a coupla war dogs - Check
Noble Pogroms- Check
Plains with quickly evaporating ponds - Check
Children becoming ultra-agile before maturity - Check
Player hasn't read the wiki, and is paying for it - Check
Healthcare bug: Dude refuses to get water for wounded, gets drafted and immediately is severely injured due to sparring - check

The initial population is a little high, so it's pretty obviously a reclaim (IIRC, there was a survey by seven people of the planet, of which six died before they abandoned it.)

Anyway, baen is giving away the book free on their website as part of their samples.  Check it out.

http://www.webscription.net/chapters/0743436016/0743436016___1.htm
« Last Edit: July 30, 2009, 11:10:34 pm by Qmarx »
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BigFatDwarf

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Re: The Survivors: Or, why must Dwarf Fortress only model fantasy?
« Reply #1 on: July 30, 2009, 10:02:35 pm »
Yes ... seems nice in the beginning ... now, let's spend a few hours reading.

Oh, thanks for da link!
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Re: The Survivors: Or, why must Dwarf Fortress only model fantasy?
« Reply #2 on: July 31, 2009, 05:40:01 am »
Quote from: Qmarx on July 30, 2009, 09:00:21 pm
So, The Survivors is the DwarFortressest novella I've read. 

*killing hordes of enemies with ease after training for a while and getting weapons and armor
*no challenge unless you go look it up specifically in the endgame
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Re: The Survivors: Or, why must Dwarf Fortress only model fantasy?
« Reply #3 on: July 31, 2009, 10:22:11 am »
thanx again.

I started reading that, then started reading several other books at the same time, then lost the link.

 
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Re: The Survivors: Or, why must Dwarf Fortress only model fantasy?
« Reply #4 on: August 01, 2009, 06:55:05 am »
Yeah I read that a while ago. There is also the thing where massive amounts of gems are found, but there are no use for them so they just use them as toys. Of course later they... spoilers stuff read the book  :P with them.
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Re: The Survivors: Or, why must Dwarf Fortress only model fantasy?
« Reply #5 on: August 01, 2009, 10:07:27 am »
I havent read the book, but let me guess they
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Re: The Survivors: Or, why must Dwarf Fortress only model fantasy?
« Reply #6 on: August 01, 2009, 03:16:55 pm »
...have sex...
...grow beards...
...build houses...
! ...create gemstone windows... with them.
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