"this dwarf is conflicted. He's a member of the mining guild which has a quota to meet. But his brother is priest of religion X which forbids mining out these gems. He's unsure which side to prioritise."
Hopefully this would come with some kind of pop-up warning/notification that a social/emotional conflict is happening, or I could see myself missing events pretty often (if events were only displayed internally dwarf-by-dwarf)..
I don't want to offend any dwarves by accidentally giving them a cat-leather tunic right after their pet cat died, or harvest a plump helmet that a dwarf-child and his granddwarffather were growing together as a bonding activity, or miss a young dwarf who wants to follow their parent's profession but is too afraid to skill-lessly practice in public and secretly wishes for a secluded workshop to be built..
Hmm.. This all sounds great, but now I catch myself wondering if the above stuff might not come across more like "creative mandates".. Maybe the difference is in the tone
A single nobledwarf demanding 10 coffers doesn't quite have the charm that an old dwarf quietly wishing for his own garden, or providing a shy dwarf a quiet spot to focus, or a hunter tormented because the fort is hungry but the only animal nearby are the revered Holy Mandrills his religion holds high.. Those seem like "Hi, I'm Armok, and I'm listening."-type experiences instead, and might be a little more fulfilling than giving a dwarf a giant bedroom so he won't hit other dwarves in the face
.. I'm.. glad.. Toady does this stuff, and not me.. :> I was worried about these kind of things coming off as seeming "scripted", or fear that you'd get to the point of going "Bah, another loser dwarf wanting a private workshop..", but Sir Toad has that magic.. He'll build some far-arching system that blows us all away