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[numerobis]

I wonder how long I'll still be amused by sending out the occasional adventurer to get her head impaled on a spear by the kobolds (after one of their guards blew out both my lungs and the heart, then shot me in the head just to make sure), and then reading about that event and everything else that happened to the dwarves I ran into at the goblin tower.

One thing, though: I kind of feel bad for the poor kobold bloke whose wife and only son I killed for no good reason.

[Angellus]

One thing, though: I kind of feel bad for the poor kobold bloke whose wife and only son I killed for no good reason.

Dont worry, they do more to you then you to them

[Puzzlemaker]

It's getting to the point where the worlds history is reallyyy interesting.  I can't wait to start effecting it more, and being involved in big things.  Wars, etc.  It's going to be awesome.

[SirPenguin]

Once the Legends screen is sort of 'cleaned up', with clickable names and such, it'll be even more interesting. Some goblin keep killing you? Go into legends, find his parents/children, track them down to their homes, and brutally murder them.

[Astus Ater]

Once the Legends screen is sort of 'cleaned up', with clickable names and such, it'll be even more interesting. Some goblin keep killing you? Go into legends, find his parents/children, track them down to their homes, and brutally murder them.

Be even better if he started tantruming and went on a bloody rampage.

[numerobis]

One thing, though: I kind of feel bad for the poor kobold bloke whose wife and only son I killed for no good reason.

Dont worry, they do more to you then you to them

I can't exactly *blame* them for putting my head on a spike after what I did to them.  My next adventurer got revenge, though, despite an arrow sticking out of his big toe.  Then he somehow managed to gouge out both the elite bowkoblin's eyes despite being shot thrice more (and still having that arrow in his toe).

But that got boring so I retired, genned a new world, and read its history.  Giant rampages!  Bronze colossi getting shot dead by elves!  Dragons attacking a village, and the outcome being that the entire village started worshipping them (and a cow was snarfed)!

[shadow_archmagi]

When Dwarf Fortress is finished, (and the Legends writing style is a bit improved ) someone should copy and paste a world history into MS_word, and then email it to a publishing company as a new novel.

[Kogan Loloklam]

Actually, that isn't too bad an idea. I wonder how Toady would feel if someone wrote a novel about a dwarf fortress world. That would be some awesome publicity...
It would be nice to hear Toady's take on someone actually taking his game and writing novels out of it.....

[SirPenguin]

Dwarf Fortress is the fantasy version of "10,000 monkeys"

[korora]

Dwarf Fortress is the fantasy version of "10,000 monkeys"

Not really.  I've actually done the math, and even with some generous assumptions it's extremely unlikely that the monkeys would come up with Shakespeare even if given the entire lifetime of the universe; Dwarf Fortress has much more story-writing potential than 10,000 billions-of-years-old simians with typewriters.

[Sean Mirrsen]

That particular theory presumes the monkeys are typing random letters. Therefore, a system that is specifically aiming to create history will inevitably come up with history, and that history may or may not contain great stories worthy of a novel, with much higher chance of success than any purely random system.

[Deon]

I can't wait to start effecting it more, ...

You mean destroying it more? You can't build a monument/save a life (well, except children prisoners which are safe anyway) to get there.
Note how bad DF is to our children. Do you want a place in the history? Go kill someone!

[Astus Ater]

Or even beter, get abducted! be like Iki Tiredtwilights, the male Elf born in 1, abducted in 3 by the goblins of Strengthspider, then again in 4 by the goblins of Peakedincests.

...Then again in 5 by the goblins of Strengthspider. And again in 6, back to Peakedincests.

Thankfully, by now he was too old to be snatched, so he grew up in Peakedincests, killed a rival goblin, murdered two of his own(one of which was actually a dwarf), and killed some random dwarf. Still alive, too.