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[NW_Kohaku]

Personality Rewrite is supposed to be about how personality traits we have now are not useful for the game, and Toady wants to have things like "enjoys hurting people" and "penchant for crime", so that they are more "judgmental", and the criminal traits will lead to criminal dwarves or bandits or something. 

Making an "outright sadistic torturer" personality trait wouldn't be far-fetched, and it could just be slanted far away from that on most races, so as to make it very rare, but some creatures could have a very high probability of it.

[Supersnes]

It would give us something to build to;to strive towards.  Start with an innocent and benign character and slowly turn them into something far fouler then any goblin or nightbeast. Or even the clowns for that matter!  Overall it could just be like a little tick at first, similar to how some people like watching fires burn, and can grow with each "taste" to the point where your walking away from your neighbors inferno of a house with an empty gas can in your hand.  Except that the house is a workshop smeared with blood and sizzling with magma and the gas can is his head/torso/guts/liver/heart/etc.

[nxcho]

At first I thought this suggestion was about masochism. "...He enjoyed a good spanking lately..."

[NW_Kohaku]

At first I thought this suggestion was about masochism. "...He enjoyed a good spanking lately..."

... another possibility for the Personality Rewrite.   

[GreatWyrmGold]

Would there be a way to make it so it was no longer an entire civ/ethnic/creature related token but given on an individual basis?  Also could this be a side effect of evil biomes/spheres in that creature born and raise here become steadily more devious over the generations/time spent there.

That would be personality-based, which is where I believe it belongs.

To say that every single creature of a species shares the exact same psychological trait is a little strange, in general.

I think that the idea was for night creatures, which are rare enough that likely only a handful would enjoy torture, and would be raised by torture-loving parents, and are also Monsters of the Night.

[Robosaur]

I totally think most, if not all but a few, night creatures should be able to [ENJOY_TORTURE], and take those they do not want to convert into spouses and instead eat them slowly while they are forced to watch.

[Supersnes]

Just had a !!scientific!! idea    You are torturing a werebeast to the brink of death and then they heal after every transformation.  So this means that even as they die they are wisked away from the sweet embrace of death to continue their agony over and over again.  Seems like a good way to grind the soon to be, hopefully, torturer skill tag.

[NW_Kohaku]

I think that the idea was for night creatures, which are rare enough that likely only a handful would enjoy torture, and would be raised by torture-loving parents, and are also Monsters of the Night.

Even then, however, if the Personality Rewrite works similarly to how it works now, you could simply set those specific hags to something like [PERSONALITY:SADISM:75:95:100]

Provided the "loves torture" range is 80+, you're basically saying that 87.5% of the species is going to love torturing people, but still leaving 12.5% to be the "weirdos" who are perfectly fine with committing torture, but don't quite get off on it.