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[Ancient_Sleeping_Dude_Rei]

Golems = good idea

Golems going bad during creation and go berserk = even better

[Toady One]

I had written some stuff regarding automatons in my "bloating" section, which is not part of the countdown.  I don't know if I'll get to it or not...  I'm not sure I want automatons to be commonplace or really anything other than unique.  Dwarves as they stand aren't very magical right now, and making automated things that are better than the current japanese robots is kind of silly.

[X]

It's not armour, it's bindings.

X

[Ancient_Sleeping_Dude_Rei]

But dwarves are alchemists or whatever, their knowledge and power with metals is unmatched. I don't think golems actually have gears or whatever inside, they are just a solid straigth through of whatever material they are made from, enchanted with life and obeying the creator... Til it turns on em and kill em that is

[Svirfneblim]

My personal preference would be that a single golem would be very hard and expensive to make.
Also, every single golem would have to be maintained(oiled, etc.) by a high skill level mage, so they would be few.
Such a golem could indeed guard some strategic passage somewhere.

[Eagleon]

I think they should be very easy to make, and they should still kick arse. They could guard the pink fleshy dwarves hiding in their caves, but....

The wizards could make them revolt. >

Edit: Damn smilies.

[ March 24, 2005: Message edited by: Eagleon ]

[Toady One]

755...  tick tumby tick tom tumby tick tock...

[Silleh Boy]

in a kind of, easy to make, hard to animate, even harder to maintain manner?

trolls. this game better have trolls. and hordes of harry potter fan boys/girls to slaughter. and the obligatory cyclops.

on a more serious note, will the dwarven brews be possible to turn into a makeshift weapon in dire times?
i mean, dwarven ale must be quite potent, and make a mean molotov. and of course send the dwarf assigned the grim task of sacrificing this most sacred of fluids into a deep depression.

[Aquillion]

quote:Originally posted by Toady One:
<STRONG>Well, if people have preferences about what they want things to be called, I can just stick many of the common words in a file.  Human, elf, whatever.  I don't want to use the words balrog or mithril myself, although this game is certainly Tolkien inspired.</STRONG>

I've seen 'mithril' used almost everywhere, in quite a lot of  non-Tolkien-related (and commerical) games.  I'm not sure it's a word Tolkien invented.

But, in any case, giving people the option to customize names and terms using a text file seems to be the best way to go.

[Toady One]

Wikipedia knows everything:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithril

In any case, yeah, text files.  The effort continues...  continuing...

[Eagleon]

<Edit> Erk. Always with the posting before I do. I'm too slow. =/ O.o It is a simultanious post, isn't it? Spooky.

I'd ask for the option to change 'dwarves' to things, but that'd be silly since the entire game is based around them... Then again, there are a few other things/people which might fit the role. Meheheh.

[ March 27, 2005: Message edited by: Eagleon ]

[ March 27, 2005: Message edited by: Eagleon ]

[Toady One]

Wow!  Simultaneous post!

[Ancient_Sleeping_Dude_Rei]

Hey, I just finished my version of Dwarves Fortress!

If you wish to try it, it can be downloaded at Link

[Eagleon]

Vey funneh.

On this day, 26 years ago, my parents got married. How's that for an April Fools joke?  

[Toady One]

It depends on how old you are.  He he he...