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[Loud Whispers]

2 bars of soap = 1x7 bridge
1 dragon = 1x1
2 bars of soap = 7 dragons?

Not magic, just really weird physics.

[SRD]

Btw, there is no difference between magic and dwarven science.
Magic = bending the laws of time and space with mere thought.
Dwarven overseers do this ALL THE TIME.

[KodKod]

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

[Loud Whispers]

Magic = Supernatural forces affecting stuff.
Science = Explanation of natural phenomena

Dwarf Science = Weaponization of natural phenomena

This is in a fantasy world. Magic exists. Dwarfs don't use it. In fact, I don't think anyone but necromancers use it...

[SRD]

I thought elves were magical creatures... And dwarves could be the only kind of people who could create anything even like the bronze colossus. Who else would?

[Garath]

evolution! it's just very tough, almost metalic skin of the same colour!

Or the creators Toady One and Three Toes created them.

[Loud Whispers]

Yeah, pretty much the only people who use magic are deities and those learned in the ways of deities.

I thought elves were magical creatures...

Our Elves are different.

[Garath]

they are supposed to use some magic to grow trees in the shape they want

[Loud Whispers]

they are supposed to use some magic to grow trees in the shape they want

[AT_PEACE_WITH_NATURE_OR_SOMETHING]

The trees do it 'cause they're nice plants or something.

[runlvlzero]

Make them need power? make them water-powered? something that makes slight more sense than "magic" please

They already need power. You need to at least hook a gear to them.

[Garath]

Weapon traps should be multi-tile and require a spring or other potential energy source -- automatic resetting should require some explicit establishment of a feasible mechanism

there ya go

[Urist Da Vinci]

Dwarves appear to use quantum entanglement to link mechanisms to levers and pressure plates: they need to install a pair, and they need to touch both mechanisms in a certain order to link them. There is no communication delay for doors and hatches linked to a lever. Certain things like bridges have their own inherent delay in reacting to the signal.

The only things faster than mechanism signals are cat adoptions, trade negotiations, and loading pack animals/wagons, which can all happen while the game is paused.

[Lovecraft]

Yeah, pretty much the only people who use magic are deities and those learned in the ways of deities.

I thought elves were magical creatures...

Our Elves are different.

You madman! You know not what you do. You've... You've... Linked to tvtropes!

[Monk321654]

The way I see it, Dwarves CAN be magical, but only when it's related to Industry and Mechanics.
As far as we know, Quantum Mechanics is just a fancy name for magic.
They can Quantum Link, but can't start random fires.
Or something along those lines.

[ObeseHelmet]

The way I see it, Dwarves CAN be magical, but only when it's related to Industry and Mechanics.

As in the Perpetual Motion Machine, Garbage Dump, Atom Smasher, etc.

They can Quantum Link, but can't start random fires.

Are you sure about that? (Thermonuclear dwarfsplosion, anyone?)