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[Random_Dragon]

Also why are "Clowns" still "Clowns"? I think at this point they have more then stepped into common knowledge.

What with them being in Dark Fortresses, appearing on the legends list, and being smack dab right there in the myth generator to come.

And yet there was still that one instance in DF2012 where someone got tricked into opening up the curious underground structure, and hilarity ensued. o3o

[Max™]

At least I saw less dorfs and Urists recently.
I guess clown is just old habbit when you are not sure whether you should use spoiler code, those who understand it understand it anyway.

Hey, I have an actual adventurer dwarf race called dorfs and I never get sick of hearing "Greetings, dorf." as I wander around.

Urists are also the best unit of measurement ever, screw all this metric vs imperial crap!

That door is 2 by 3 Urists, a 3 Urist long spear weighs 5 Urists, and it's a chilly 9500 Urists outside.

I always thought it was Happy Fun Stuff though, not Hidden.

[Random_Dragon]

It seems HFS is more or less official, since HFIDs are used for associating angels and divine metals with deities.

Apparently this means that angels are Hidden and Fun, but not Stuff.

[Knight Otu]

It seems HFS is more or less official, since HFIDs are used for associating angels and divine metals with deities.

That's Historical Figure ID, though, not Hidden Fun ID. 

[Random_Dragon]

That's Historical Figure ID, though, not Hidden Fun ID. 

Boooo, spoil my fun. XP

[Robsoie]

Will the myth generator going to have impact at gameplay time during adventure mode ?
I mean gameplay impact in the sense of by example the

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

vault with the slab binding a demon for special reason as described in legends but that you can visit in adventure mode and make some use from

in opposition to being just dialogue description from a NPC ?

[Untrustedlife]

Will the myth generator going to have impact at gameplay time during adventure mode ?
I mean gameplay impact in the sense of by example the

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

vault with the slab binding a demon for special reason as described in legends but that you can visit in adventure mode and make some use from

in opposition to being just dialogue description from a NPC ?

For sure, it will involve artifacts you can use and magic systems you can explore. And alternate planes you can go to and such.

[Robsoie]

alternate planes you can actually travel to ?
That sounds frankly great.

[Knight Otu]

Of course, that's the aspect that's probably farthest away. But yes, part of the point of the myth generator is to give non-player artifacts some background, non-player artifacts should cause several changes as outlined in DF Talk #22, and many elements that are created by the generator have the chance to be existent in the adventurer's world - there's locations, which may be destroyed (so a chance for ruins), there's spirit types that may be encounterable (demons, fairies), there are individually-named creatures of various types (cosmic megabeasts, night creatures, animals) that could conceivably be encountered, and yes, magic styles that could be learned. Not everything will be in the game immediately, of course.

[Shonai_Dweller]

And villians who will plot to steal artifacts from you (and elsewhere). No more, "Smaug the Dragon is our greatest foe, in his spite he stole a pigtail sock."(hopefully).

[Random_Dragon]

And villians who will plot to steal artifacts from you (and elsewhere). No more, "Smaug the Dragon is our greatest foe, in his spite he stole a pigtail sock."(hopefully).

I'm sure there will still be plenty of sock theft, via eating people the socks are attached to.

[Zesty]

It's been over a year since the last Dwarf Fortress Talk. It'd be great to hear one of those sometime if you guys can find the time.

That isn't a question or Lime green.

A post I saw said "Green" and it's something I'd like a response to. Fixed the color.

[Shonai_Dweller]

In the podcast Toady gave the same reply he's given the past few times he's been asked about Dftalk. Nice but takes time, requires thinking about topics.

Still, if the GDC talk video doesn't go up for free any time soon a chat about myth-gen would be much appreciated.

[Shonai_Dweller]

It's been over a year since the last Dwarf Fortress Talk. It'd be great to hear one of those sometime if you guys can find the time.

That isn't a question or Lime green.

A post I saw said "Green" and it's something I'd like a response to. Fixed the color.

I think Toady responds to either, but standard green is really hard to read on some monitors.

[Untrustedlife]

In the podcast Toady gave the same reply he's given the past few times he's been asked about Dftalk. Nice but takes time, requires thinking about topics.

Still, if the GDC talk video doesn't go up for free any time soon a chat about myth-gen would be much appreciated.

Would love this.