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[PCpaste]

So, I was thinking... What if people, when making statues and things of the sort, make imaginary creatures? They could be generated like the forgotten beasts and demons and such, but never actually exist. Maybe the creativity could play a role in how often they create such creatures. Example: Lowest creativity= Never makes an imaginairy creature, and Highest creativity= Almost every time makes said creatures.

[Girlinhat]

I'd rather not.  That would get to be a headache pretty fast.  We already have lols in the forums when we try to decide what a FB looks like, like the quadruped spider.  Do you want that for every statue?

[Dutchling]

I don't want images of creatures, I want images of my dwarves killing elfs and stuff like that.

[PCpaste]

There should be some obvious sign of imagination in some dwarves. I mean, almost every statue of mine is dwarves or plump helmet men.

[3]

There are already "signs of imagination" in dwarves; you just need to assign a creative dwarf as an engraver.

[Girlinhat]

This is because you lack Fun, and you lack imagination yourself.  If you get a statue of an elf killing a dwarf in your dining hall, that's not lame.  That's incentive!  That's an urge for all future dwarves to correct the unjustice done to them!  Or get in a siege and start engraving.  You'll get plenty of images of dwarves injuring and killing goblins.  If nothing is going on, nothing will be recorded.

[GotIt_00]

I can this being cool if it happened in strange moods or something. It would be off-putting for all the statues to be of teal three-eyed chimichangas. For a dwarf to have a vision of dread (or awe-inspiring) creatures now again could be neat-o.

[FallingWhale]

Centaurs.

[Exlo]

I thought there were already mythical beasts like that and such. Griffins are one example. I'm not sure if they are used in recorded images like engravings and statues though...

Regardless, that would make statues a bit to random. :\

[DanielLC]

Please summarize your idea in the topic title. Otherwise, we need to read it to find out if it's worth reading.

[Girlinhat]

No you don't.  If someone didn't summarize the concept in the title, then it's not worth reading.

[Jeoshua]

No you don't.  If someone didn't summarize the concept in the title, then it's not worth reading.

Not always true... but often true.

It was the CAPS that gave it away, for me.