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[Margrave]

That's right folks, what titles do you want to see in the (hopefully) near future when scrolls and stone tablets are integrated into the game?

What bestseller would you trade your handful of Rock Nuts and -mountain goat leather shoe- to get at your local bookstore?

Will it be fiction? A history of your civilization? A technical guide on how to manually operate a pump? All these and more! Give me your most and least rational ideas regarding what to expect.

To start off: How to Properly make a *Plump Helmet Roast* (Hint: the secret is how many times you mince it)

[Skelodwarf]

BoatMurdered, The Story

[Myroc]

101 ways to kill tend to kittens.

[Lord Dullard]

Urist Potter and the Chamber of HFS

[Katsuun]

The Dwarven Way: A Treatise on Drinking, Tantruming, and Stupidity over the Ages.

A sample exceprt:

And in doing so, the dwarf inadvertently caused the death of his fellow by using a pick to strike at the floor below him, sending his fellow miner plumeting off the disconnected section of rock into the magma pool below. Oddly enough, the dwarf was not punished for his actions. When asked what her thought of what he had done, he replied:

"Shut up, I'm trying to get his body"

Thus was the way that two dwarves died in yet another incident of The Dwarven Way.

[Aldaris]

How To Tame A Dragon: a beginners guide to the uses of megabeasts within the confines of a dwarf fortress.


Chasmic interference: a thrilling story of a band of adventureres descending into the depths of the chasm of *INSERT YOUR CIV'S MOUNTAINHOME NAME HERE*.

[Pilsu]

Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. It has everything, founders of an ancient city, glass coffins, necrophiliac merchant princes, iron shoes..

[Terbert]

Magma

[Mondark]

Elves And What To Do With Them

On the back would be a little sticker saying something like:
"Goes great with these other titles! Magma, Goblins And What To Do With Them, and On The Making of Implements"

[Hawkfrost]

Socks

A book with pictures of socks, sock production, sock materials, and famous socks in history.

[Sam Harrison]

Carp and You: A Fisherdwarf's Guide to a Longer, Happier Life

[Myroc]

Some more from me:

Flooding fortresses for fun and profit
Urist McScientist's Quantum Stockpile theory
How to "please" your nobles.

[Katsuun]

Another few regarding the weird laws of physics in DF:

Disproving the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics: Why the Perpetual Motion Machine is Possible.

The Properties of Acceleration: from 0 mph to Terminal Veloctiy in Milliseconds

[soup_alex]

The Interpretation of Strange Moods, by Urist Freud?

[sonerohi]

Health Weekly with Urist Thinbodice

A sample passage: Feeling like a pig after that last purring maggot milk roast you ate? Can't get into your +steel plate mail+ anymore? Urist Thinbodice has this advice to give: "While it may be painful on the eyes, it [the sun] can make you throw up which is helpful. Repeated exposure can really help you shave off the pounds and give the fort entrance that nice, olivine color with a chunky texture".