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[DG]

And why? I'm interested in your reasons for the choice, if any, and whether you stick to certain guidelines or are changeable. For instance:

- what's their profession? Maybe they are strictly military.
- do you take body type into account (height, strength etc)?
- do you take personailty into account?
- what weapon/armour do they use if any?

I know there are many that will take a purely practical view in line with gameplay mechanics (make the sheriff the miner if you want a deadly one, for random example) or not have one at all so that they needn't worry about failed mandates, but I'm wondering how many choose nerd "roleplay" reasons?

Currently my sheriff is also my mechanic. I don't have a set profession for my sheriffs but don't use miners because I like to have my sheriff carrying a mace and that would conflict with the pick carrying of a miner. I always give my sheriff a mace because I feel it fits the office. As the sheriff is sometimes tasked to deal with your own citizens, having them use something that will chop off limbs and cause bleeding deaths (swords, axes) doesn't appeal to me. Not that a mace or a smashed head isn't deadly, but that's my reasoning behind the mace choice anyway. I don't care how strong or weak, tall or fat they are or their sex when they are first chosen. They get toughened on the job if need be. Oh, and I always make the sheriff the militia captain.

What I do care about is personality traits (not that they matter, I know). So I chose this guy because he:

has a very calm demeanor (it's nice to have calm people in positions of authority)
occasionally overindulges (the lower the immoderation value the better, because it makes him less prone to corruption* and less likely to behave in a fashion that incites resentment from others)
can handle stress (obviously helpful, I think)
open-minded to new ideas (a progressive and liberal cop who's willing to listen? awesome**)
is not easily moved to pity (I always try to have my sheriff with this trait because I don't want him being rolled by sob stories, he's a dwarf and he's got dwarven justice to uphold)

He also has an amazing memory, an ability to read emotions fairly well and a good intuition which I think makes him a fine candidate for any sort of detective job (like chasing down an unknown vampire in a fort). Other things I like to see in my sheriff is confidence, sense of duty, and empathy when I can find it. So yeah, you don't need to be as comprehensive as me, but who's your sheriff and why?

*in my mind obviously, and this goes for all the other assumptions, too
**I know this trait has nothing to do with liberalism in a political sense

[Lich180]

My current sheriff is an empty slot in the noble screen.

My nobles are too busy living their gold furniture and artifact decorations, with lovely engraved walls and windows into the arena to care if Urist McHauler takes something to the depot they banned. My dwarves are ecstatic because if they happen to accidentally haul something banned to the depot, they don't get punished and have a good thought from punishment being delayed and have good thoughts from the awesome statue garden with an artifact millstone and lever in it.

I don't think I really use the justice system actually, never get around to it before I get bored and move on.

[Gavakis]

I don't think I really use the justice system actually, never get around to it before I get bored and move on.

Thats exactly me, only if I have a murder or a vampire do I ever use it, and its allways death.

[Triaxx2]

I find the weakest, wimpiest dwarf I can, preferably one crippled, or lacking the ability to grasp and use that one.

[Tevish Szat]

Usually, a migrant ends up my sheriff, specifically a hunter or otherwise skilled marksdwarf.  Low strength is considered a plus for the fortress guard, but agility and stamina both want to be high.  I equip the fortress guard with bone crossbows (Since I rarely if ever have cotton candy or feather wood to spare), but so far haven't had the opportunity to see dwarven justice in action

[Lich180]

Thats exactly me, only if I have a murder or a vampire do I ever use it, and its allways death.

Even if I have a vampire or murderer, I just draft them and put them to work scouting dangerous locations, or as a sentry or eternal bookie/lever puller.

Guess I never have many murderers, since any of my forts that have them fall anyways, and its pointless to try and punish people during a tantrum spiral.

[Telgin]

I think the suppress wield bug was fixed in .34.x, so it doesn't matter like it used to in .31.25, but I still appoint a sheriff / captain of the guard and make a marksdwarf squad out of it.  I used to do that because a wooden crossbow was less likely to kill dwarves in beatings, but it didn't stop all of them in one unfortunate case.  You could create separate marksdwarf squads of course, but I like to keep my military squads as consolidated as possible.

So I generally equip him or her as a marksdwarf.  I used to give them leather armor and a shield, but now I deck them out in full plate like any other soldier since leather armor is mostly useless.  I sometimes give them steel crossbows, but I often just keep the original wooden ones since if they get into melee they're in big trouble anyway.  And the wield suppress bug seems to be fixed anyway.

[Loud Whispers]

And why? I'm interested in your reasons for the choice, if any, and whether you stick to certain guidelines or are changeable. For instance:

- what's their profession? Maybe they are strictly military.
- do you take body type into account (height, strength etc)?
- do you take personailty into account?
- what weapon/armour do they use if any?

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Captain Nil Eirth Thunen 2nd Wave.

Walking head to toe in some of Olin's finest; wielding his ☼Steel Warhammer☼ as his weapon of choice and symbol of justice, Captain Nil Erith is at the forefront of anti-night creature warfare and justice.
Never an innocent Dwarf punished, the Fort's warrior mayor and its warrior baron never demand the petty punishment of good warriors and farmesons, and never is the hammer raised in anger.

[moki]

My current captain of the guard is the manager/broker/bookkeeper. He was idling most of the time, so he might as well beat um some criminals. He's clad in full layered iron armor and carries a masterwork silver war hammer and leads a guard of 7 elite warrriors with similar equipment. I do have luxurious jails, though... just in case if I ever need justice that doesn't result in smashed heads.

[Oaktree]

Sheriff/Capt of the Guard is usually the leader of my first marksdwarf squad much as the Militia Commander is usually in charge of my first axe squad.

[Rutilant]

I typically give positions of nobility to dwarves that do anything remotely unique enough to catch my attention, since those are the best kinds.  Unless it'd interfere with an important job.   I have an entire manor built for a dwarven infant just because he punched a troll when it tried to grab him from his mother!

So... My sherriff is whoever earns it, in the eyes of the apathetic and capricious god that I am to them.

One time I made a dwarf my mayor just because he evaded three entire goblin ambush squads (that he discovered in the first place) and got back into the front door of my fort, using nothing but one a couple lucky dodges and his Expert Crutchwalker skill.

[Scootagoose]

I tend to give it to a dwarf that proves himself worthy in battle.

[DG]

Thanks guys, very interesting.