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[SkyRender]

You know, anywhere else, I would be disturbed at the fact that a game's fandom is overjoyed at the prospect of committing mass injury and malpractice to level skills up.  But this is Dwarf Fortress.  If no blood gets shed and nobody dies, then you're not doing it right.

[Jyppa]

Urist McHouse cancels Diagnose, failed to care.

[Aspgren]

I look forward to a fort full of cripples and a surgeon who earned all his skills through malpractice... I also look forward to wounding nobles with spike traps and having dabblers treat them.

by the way. on a more serious note: I think the diagnosis skill will be valuable in prescribing cures for poisons and such.

[Karik]

*Migrants have arrived*
*Urist McDead has been impaled to death*
*Urist McWounded1 has been wounded*
*Urist McWounded2 has been wounded*
*Urist McDeadaswell has been impaled to death*
*Urist McWounded3 has been...*

Surgeon pulling lever:  Yes, yes, very good, get the beds ready, we have newcomers!  NURSE!  My scalpel!  Oh, and tell the mechanics the traps are killing too many, I want pain and suffering not a clean death!

[zwei]

Urist McHouse cancels Treat Patient, interrupted by leg pain.
Urist McHouse cancels Take Pills, interrupted by boss.

nah...

Zoidberg McDwarf is Extatic. He ate mouldy leftovers lately.

[Duke 2.0]

Urist McHouse cancels Treat Patient, interrupted by leg pain.
Urist McHouse cancels Take Pills, interrupted by boss.

nah...

Zoidberg McDwarf is Extatic. He ate mouldy leftovers lately.

Great news everyone! I've invented a bridge that can crush trash into atomic particles. Watch as I demonstrate on this memento belong to Fry.

[Chicken Launcher]

"Welcome to Syruphollows, the grand Dwarven fortress!"
"What's all that screaming coming from that room over there?"
"Ah, I see you've discovered our medical school!"

[Slogo]

Did it not occur to anyone else that your Doctor could also be your Butcher? That's just disturbing on many levels*.

*It'd also work in a practical sense since both professions have downtime.

[Lemunde]

Urist McHouse cancels Treat Patient, interrupted by leg pain.
Urist McHouse cancels Take Pills, interrupted by boss.

Urist McCoy cancels construct rock mechanism.  "I'm a doctor, not an engineer!"

[Dwarf]

I hope there's a possibility for awesome Red Beard field medics, pulling out goblin bolts and cauterizing the wound, desinfecting with a healthy spill of Dwarven Rum.

[Dr. Hieronymous Alloy]

*Migrants have arrived*
*Urist McDead has been impaled to death*
*Urist McWounded1 has been wounded*
*Urist McWounded2 has been wounded*
*Urist McDeadaswell has been impaled to death*
*Urist McWounded3 has been...*

Surgeon pulling lever:  Yes, yes, very good, get the beds ready, we have newcomers!  NURSE!  My scalpel!  Oh, and tell the mechanics the traps are killing too many, I want pain and suffering not a clean death!

I'm imagining spike traps filled with wooden training spears.

[MoonLightBird]

*Migrants have arrived*
*Urist McDead has been impaled to death*
*Urist McWounded1 has been wounded*
*Urist McWounded2 has been wounded*
*Urist McDeadaswell has been impaled to death*
*Urist McWounded3 has been...*

Surgeon pulling lever:  Yes, yes, very good, get the beds ready, we have newcomers!  NURSE!  My scalpel!  Oh, and tell the mechanics the traps are killing too many, I want pain and suffering not a clean death!

I'm imagining spike traps filled with wooden training spears.

Good old whip traps, lots of gore damage, very little death. Best way to train doctors and have a good laugh at the same time!

[Hyndis]

It might make sense to have a doctor dwarf. Disable all other jobs for him except health care related jobs, give him a cushy room with customized furniture, and he will be your official health care provider.

That is, if you want efficiency. Which as we all know is madness.


I like the idea of the hammerer being the doctor. After all, he's gotta practice his medical skills somehow.   

[TKGP]

It might make sense to have a doctor dwarf. Disable all other jobs for him except health care related jobs, give him a cushy room with customized furniture, and he will be your official health care provider.

That is, if you want efficiency. Which as we all know is madness.


I like the idea of the hammerer being the doctor. After all, he's gotta practice his medical skills somehow.   

Well, presumably knowledge of anatomy would make you a more effective fighter. It'd be interesting if Toady actually coded in weird interactions like that. Not really surprising, because, you know, this is Tarn Adams we're talking about, but still.

[Dr. Hieronymous Alloy]

Good old whip traps, lots of gore damage, very little death. Best way to train doctors and have a good laugh at the same time!

Maybe people will finally like the hammerer.

Can you build a whip trap that will catch your own dwarves? Is it just a matter of connecting it to a lever?