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[mainiac]

Give us a pregnancy indicator and we can remove the dwards labors if we are so inclined.

[Sutremaine]

If I knew that a dwarf was coming into the fortress that would potentially spend a good portion of its time puking, resting, and consuming more resources while doing less work, it would be ushered into the death chamber the moment it appeared on the map edge.

If children could become more useful sooner, it wouldn't be a problem. See my other thread.

What does the usefulness of the child have to do with anything? It's the trained adult I care about, especially if she has preferences for plate mail and steel (I don't care about that other stuff ), or ballista parts.

[I3erent]

miscarriage?  deformed babies anyone??

Yeah but do the miscarried babies turn into ghosts or zombies that haunt your fort?

[Draco18s]

miscarriage?  deformed babies anyone??

Yeah but do the miscarried babies turn into ghosts or zombies that haunt your fort?

Sure, why not?

[Foa]

miscarriage?  deformed babies anyone??

Yeah but do the miscarried babies turn into ghosts or zombies that haunt your fort?

Sure, why not?

Or maybe very moody Dwarves?

[madrain]

Holy crap, wombs!  That's an awesome suggestion!  Goblin marksmen piercing through expectant mothers with their lethal arrows, leading to baby death, leading to insane mother suicide, leading to tantruming military AND spouse, leading to fortress downfall!

yes!

[Mephansteras]

Dwarf Fortress: Bringing out the sociopath in players since 2006!

Sheesh.

Anyway, I'm all for having a way know that females are pregnant, of any species. It's just useful information for the player!

[MMad]

Well they're dwarves, I don't think being pregnant would stop a hardy creature from doing heavy labor until very close to delivery

Agreed. Human pregnancies can be arduous and often lethal, but in the name of gameplay I think dwarven ones should be relatively easy. Maybe a rest period of a couple of weeks before delivery? Like, "Bromek Rigòthokir, Speardwarf cancels sparring: too pregnant", then pretty much resting like when wounded, except it says "Pregnant".

I really like the idea of having births be a lot more dangerous without a nurse, it would make the Health Care job more meaningful. With a decent nurse, I think the odds of births being difficult should be very long.

As for wounds, organs and stuff like that - is it really needed? Sure, it could be added, but I don't see much fun gameplay coming out of making pregnancies much more of a risk or a hassle you need to manage, and including anything remotely sexual in games is always to invite trouble you don't need.

orphanages, to cut back on baby suicide.

The most sensible thing would seem for another dwarf to adopt the baby - father, friend, or just a random dwarf in the fortress ("Urist was upset about having to adopt a baby lately"). Makes much more sense than having babies intentionally crawl off to kill themselves. It might mess up family relations to a point where it's an unfeasible idea, though. Who knows.

[Granite26]

The most sensible thing would seem for another dwarf to adopt the baby - father, friend, or just a random dwarf in the fortress ("Urist was upset about having to adopt a baby lately"). Makes much more sense than having babies intentionally crawl off to kill themselves. It might mess up family relations to a point where it's an unfeasible idea, though. Who knows.

Be careful about projecting modern sensibilities onto yer dorfs.  (Don't read that if you plan on eating...)

Anywho, keeping babies alive will be more important when they are more useful...

[Mikademus]

Holy crap, wombs!  That's an awesome suggestion!  Goblin marksmen piercing through expectant mothers with their lethal arrows, leading to baby death, leading to insane mother suicide, leading to tantruming military AND spouse, leading to fortress downfall!

yes!

This thread has been reported to the religious right. You will hear from your Westboro Baptist Church representative soon.

[Creamcorn]

The most sensible thing would seem for another dwarf to adopt the baby - father, friend, or just a random dwarf in the fortress ("Urist was upset about having to adopt a baby lately"). Makes much more sense than having babies intentionally crawl off to kill themselves. It might mess up family relations to a point where it's an unfeasible idea, though. Who knows.

Be careful about projecting modern sensibilities onto yer dorfs.  (Don't read that if you plan on eating...)

Anywho, keeping babies alive will be more important when they are more useful...

Oh, ew, that's pretty hardcore, defenitly not for me. I will miss how dwarfs give birth if this ever gets implemented.

[Kruniac]

Holy crap, wombs!  That's an awesome suggestion!  Goblin marksmen piercing through expectant mothers with their lethal arrows, leading to baby death, leading to insane mother suicide, leading to tantruming military AND spouse, leading to fortress downfall!

yes!

I agree 100%. I will literally kill every elf preggo in Adventurer mode, remove the baby, and throw it into a pond.

God almighty, I love Dwarf Fortress.

[Mephansteras]

I will literally kill every elf preggo in Adventurer mode, remove the baby, and throw it into a pond.

Wow...that's twisted. 

[Kruniac]

I will literally kill every elf preggo in Adventurer mode, remove the baby, and throw it into a pond.

Wow...that's twisted. 

Before playing this game for the first time, I read about people who break every bone in an elf child's body, then gouge their eyes out.

I was sold. I warez almost every game known to man, but I would literally pay 20 dollars for this game. Its that spectacular. Its not PC, it isnt eye-candy.. It gets into your head. It affects your soul.

...I havent stopped laughing at the AARs since I read them two months ago, for instance. My quality of life has improved since playing DF.

XD

[Timst]

Dwarves aren't superheroes... basically, they're just a smaller, stronger form of humans. Remember that dwarves can be irritated by the sun or wounded by a groundhog, so this is not impossible that a pregnancy could be lethal, or at least annoying for a female dwarf.