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What time period of Human History do you think Dwarf Fortress represents?
« on: October 20, 2014, 04:45:27 am »
I say late middle ages with a mix of Roman Mythology due to the fact that most people can't read, have trouble getting Food and Drin (especially in Dwarf Mode) and Gods still roam the plane.
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Re: What time period of Human History do you think Dwarf Fortress represents?
« Reply #1 on: October 20, 2014, 07:11:35 am »
For everyone else, early middle ages. For dwarves, late middle ages. All with a greek pantheon mixed in, because unlike in rome, nobody cares which god you're worshipping.
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Re: What time period of Human History do you think Dwarf Fortress represents?
« Reply #2 on: October 20, 2014, 08:28:21 am »
Toady One has set the technology level (that he wants to do) for DF to the 15th century, so late middle ages, maybe pushing it a little into the Early Renaiisance during the 16th century. That's just vanilla DF though, modders can do whatever tech level they want.
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Re: What time period of Human History do you think Dwarf Fortress represents?
« Reply #3 on: October 20, 2014, 03:52:38 pm »
Humans and Goblins: Anachronistic classical.
Dorfs: Late medievalish.
Elfs: Whenever the hell people regularly ran around eating each other and stabbing each other with sharpened twigs.
Kobolds: Modern Europe.
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Re: What time period of Human History do you think Dwarf Fortress represents?
« Reply #4 on: October 20, 2014, 11:44:49 pm »
Early dark ages/end of Roman dominion
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Re: What time period of Human History do you think Dwarf Fortress represents?
« Reply #5 on: October 20, 2014, 11:51:34 pm »
Quote from: Dyret on October 20, 2014, 03:52:38 pm
Humans and Goblins: Anachronistic classical.
Dorfs: Late medievalish.
Elfs: Whenever the hell people regularly ran around eating each other and stabbing each other with sharpened twigs.
Kobolds: Modern Europe.


Why would kobolds be modern Europe?
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Re: What time period of Human History do you think Dwarf Fortress represents?
« Reply #6 on: October 21, 2014, 12:35:22 am »
Quote from: smjjames on October 20, 2014, 11:51:34 pm
Why would kobolds be modern Europe?

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Re: What time period of Human History do you think Dwarf Fortress represents?
« Reply #7 on: October 21, 2014, 04:23:05 am »
Many of my best friends are kobolds.
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Re: What time period of Human History do you think Dwarf Fortress represents?
« Reply #8 on: October 21, 2014, 10:50:02 am »
Is "Lord of the Rings" a valid answer?
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Re: What time period of Human History do you think Dwarf Fortress represents?
« Reply #9 on: October 21, 2014, 11:31:47 am »
Quote from: Dyret on October 20, 2014, 03:52:38 pm
Kobolds: Modern Europe.

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Re: What time period of Human History do you think Dwarf Fortress represents?
« Reply #10 on: October 21, 2014, 12:15:07 pm »
Quote from: klefenz on October 21, 2014, 11:31:47 am
Quote from: Dyret on October 20, 2014, 03:52:38 pm
Kobolds: Modern Europe.

I feel like im in /pol/ again.
I took it more as kobold fandom than as an aspersion on modern Europe
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Re: What time period of Human History do you think Dwarf Fortress represents?
« Reply #11 on: October 21, 2014, 01:39:33 pm »
It kind of feels like a timeline where Epirus kicked Rome's ass and the technological progress of the Hellenistic period was never lost. Dwarves are Greek, I guess?
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Re: What time period of Human History do you think Dwarf Fortress represents?
« Reply #12 on: October 21, 2014, 05:07:34 pm »
The Pre-Decadorfian.

The clearest sign of this is that Dwarves have no problem with engraving leeches and that elves do not use laminate armor.
Also, humans like names such as ''The pregnant hill'' and every sentinent being is consumed by the inevitability of the world, which was very inevitable in these times.
Trust me, I am an history expert, especially on the Magnadecadorfian history section.
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Re: What time period of Human History do you think Dwarf Fortress represents?
« Reply #13 on: October 23, 2014, 05:12:54 am »
It is obviously set in the distant future after the very world is shaken to its foundation by The Event (being which: the release of DF 1.0)
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Re: What time period of Human History do you think Dwarf Fortress represents?
« Reply #14 on: October 25, 2014, 01:50:11 am »
Quote from: Defacto on October 21, 2014, 05:07:34 pm
The Pre-Decadorfian.

The clearest sign of this is that Dwarves have no problem with engraving leeches and that elves do not use laminate armor.
Also, humans like names such as ''The pregnant hill'' and every sentinent being is consumed by the inevitability of the world, which was very inevitable in these times.
Trust me, I am an history expert, especially on the Magmadecadorfian history section.
Ftfy
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