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[Naryar]

Why would you even want to kill something as precious as a legendary weaponsmith

Lock him into a part of the fort, and dump metal there when you need stuff done. Make it into the fort's execution device as well, eg when a hauler goes possessed and makes an artifact wooden piccolo or something.

[Pan]

This is quite a different problem I usually deal with. Most other problems I solve fall under the purview of your conundrums of philosophy.

TF2 reference aside, air lock is a good idea. Is it totally last version, or can you let vampires follow burrows? That would simplify things.

[SmileyMan]

I've never been able to understand why people get so protective of their legendary weapon/armorsmiths.  Once I reach the magma I have foundries pumping out armour and weapons 24/7, so a replacement soon gets up to speed.  Melt the inferior stuff, sell the quality stuff, keep the masterwork stuff.

So yeah, death.

[KodKod]

Why would you even want to kill something as precious as a legendary weaponsmith

No dwarven life is precious or irreplacable in a normal fort, legendary or not.

I don't particularly want a sober weaponsmith either.

[Sus]

I don't particularly want a sober weaponsmith either.

This. Besides inefficient, it is Undwarven and freakish.

[Lexx]

Eternal smithy of course. Make them my sole armor and weapon crafter and let the vampire feast on the populace at will. Likely make them the baron/baroness as well.

[malroth]

Wall them in the 1x1 vampiric fort immortality room and train up 5 new apprentices on bolts

[khearn]

Vampires are evil, and I will not allow competition in that department. The next thing you know he'll start thinking he's in charge. Therefore, the vampire must die. Mu-ha-ha-ha!

[Stil]

Once the sobriety starts to slow them down (the resources and the forge space could be in better hands) send them off with honour (ala greywardens in the deeproads, Judges in the Cursed Earth, blind fremen in the Duniverse) - completely naked and armed with a masterwork steel spear - let them play berserker with the next FB, siege that rolls up - if the vamp doesn't die, well - save it for next time

[Nil Eyeglazed]

The nice thing about vampire weaponsmiths is that other vampires won't kill them.  A legendary vampire weaponsmith would probably be enough motivation to make a half-vamp fort-- I'd get started on a vampire armorsmith and a militia burrow (not fond of vampire militia, and they're the only other essential dwarves) pronto.

[psychologicalshock]

I once tried to set up a vampiric block factory, after around 4-5 years of work they only managed to pump out slightly over 100. At first I had one of them hauling the blocks away but soon enough the work got so slow that clutter ceased to even matter.

[psychologicalshock]

Anyways, it depends - if your map has a lot of metal for training weaponsmiths its no big deal, my map is 95% gold and 5% aluminum, my weaponry and armor is completely made from foreign metal so naturally there is absolutely no way for me to quickly replace my legendary  weaponsmith in reasonable time.

[jcnorris00]

It seems to me that the best use for a vampire weaponsmith is to replace the peacock in one of GirlInHat's animal watchtowers.  Sobriety won't matter since all he has to do is stand in one spot forever, staring out at the world though fortified windows.

[Garath]

ambush trap, sounds like an idea. Goblins spot the vampire and rush through the corridors to attack to get chopped to pieces. And if they do not get chopped to pieces, they chop the vampire to pieces. It's a win/win situation.

[NW_Kohaku]

If the dwarf is valuable enough, put him/her in a well, spear trap them until bloody, and then get all the dwarves you consider valuable to drink from it by burrowing them in with only that well to drink from. 

Boom.

Vampire Fortress.

It's like Dwarf Fortress, but you take half damage, don't need to eat, sleep, you won't get sick, won't get old, and probably won't ever die.