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[OddProphet]

Nobles.  Cheesemakers.  Ashery monkeys.  All they do is scurry about your fort and take up resources, and I HATE THEM.  I hate them so much.  All new players are quickly overwhelmed with the idea that they must be fed, trained, and cared for, and all are high-risk for tantrums.  What I intend is a recipe book of slaughter, categorized by:

The time it takes to build,
The entertainment value of the death,
The cost-effectiveness of the trap.

For example, I, as a new player, have only two methods of mass execution:
1.  Lock the little bastards in a room with two battle axes.
2.  Channel out the room so it hangs suspended over a pool of magma, snapping the ledge when the sods lay down to sleep.

Feel free to get creative.

[clc02]

Recruit, place barracks on top of really high tower.  Equip all of them with masterwork steel hammers.  Enjoy
If any of them happen to survive (Without broken spines and/or brains) then you have yourself some soldiers, if some survive with broken spines and/or brains then you have yourself some fortress guards

[Lemunde]

Might as well put those carp to use.  Pick an industry that you don't use (fish cleaning, dying...)and build a workshop based on it near the carp.  Give the unworthy dwarf the appropriate labor.  I never actually tried this myself but the theory is sound.

[Rat Of Wisdom]

Lock the little bastards in a room with two battle axes.

[ERROR IN QUIP.RESPOND:EQUAL_PREFERENCE]

• This is genius.
• That sounds a lot like the way they decide company policy.
• "Armok is with the righteous! Justice favors the dwarf that wins."

[ABORT/RETRY/FAIL?]

[stormyseasons]

make them wrestlers, strip them of all armour/clothing, and lock them outside the fort when a siege comes to call. Lock any survivors into a room and drown/starve/cause to die of thirst/release wild animal/release captured enemy. If you have clowns, assign them to open the clown house and have someone else seal the corridor behind them.

[namragog]

Capture a dragon. Let it loose. Havoc.

WAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaa........... SPLAT!

[Luna]

In my current fort I built a room above an underground pool. If I get too irritated with a dwarf I'm gonna station them in there and drop them in. I haven't tried it yet, and unfortunately I've heard if you drop a dwarf in water they just fall straight to the bottom... Should still stain the water a pretty color though.

[rophl]

Quickest and easiest method of mass culling:
a large room with a drawbridge that covers the room.
Raise the drawbridge, draft all the immigrants, station them in the room and lock the door, drop the drawbridge on them, mashing them into oblivion.

Most entertaining:
tame dragon / magmafall / cave-ins

[MC Dirty]

Have a room with a few cats and many pressure plates connected to retracting spikes (wooden ones are the best) all over another room.
Station the offending dwarves in that room.
Lock the door.
Undraft them.
Enjoy the slow and painful death.

[Akigagak]

Really quick, simple, and easy: Two doors, with a one tile gap between them. Job done.

[Desiderium]

So, you want to give your dwarf a deathwish while still being cost effective, do ya? And amusing as well? That's simple to answer. Make them a fisherdwarf.

a) FOODZ
b) Dwarf-slaughtering Carp of Death
c) it's funny to suddenly see the rivers run red with BLOOD OF THE INNOCENT. *Insert Maniacal Cackle Here*

Problem Solved.

Oh, it also takes no micromanaging. Unless you REALLY want them to die, then you can designate a spot in the river (if you have one) or the pools around the map (if you have those too) that's really really packed with Carp.

Pretty much an elaborated version of what Lemunde said.

[Urist McOverlord]

My personal favorite:

Drawbridge over a channeled-out brook.
I love this map I just found...

[Cheddarius]

For nobles that can't be drafted:
Put lever in room. q-P on lever, say that only this noble can pull it. Assign it to be pulled. Wait for noble, lock door.
For everyone else, there's MasterCard bridges with 10-z falls and phat lewt recovery tunnels at the bottom.

[tastypaste]

For nobles that can't be drafted:
Put lever in room. q-P on lever, say that only this noble can pull it. Assign it to be pulled. Wait for noble, lock door.
For everyone else, there's MasterCard bridges with 10-z falls and phat lewt recovery tunnels at the bottom.

That's how I get rid of Hammerers. My basement has many small rooms and each room has a lever waiting for a new hammerer. My plan is to have a basement full of dead Hammerers as a warning to future immigrants. I'm not even going to waste a perfectly good burial receptacle on those bastards.

[Cheddarius]

Even better, open them up and create a quantum stockpile of dozens of hammerer remains. Hammerers who enter your fortress will see a massive pile several feet tall composed entirely of every hammerer who dared enter.