UltraValican's test provides data on that... too bad it crashes. I was more expecting it to simply not work.
Now, if we made 50 identical castes pre-generation and THEN modified one/turn during the game... Might be worth testing.
Also, can do on the adventurers-as-megabeasts. Should they have "armor" bodyparts anyway?
If they wouldn't replace other wildlife in their biomes, I'd make 'wild' ones that ambush you like any predatory beast. You're already getting attacked by plenty of military patrols anyway, most likely. It would be wonderful if there were a tag that implies that a certain creature isn't a member of a biome as a species and thus doesn't replace other natural species there, but can randomly be encountered in the biomes in it's definition anyway, as part of an overarching wandering population that also is not a mega/semi-megabeast or civilization member.
I once encountered a biome that was nothing but dragonkin from my mod; woody wyverns and dragonmen as herd animals, and lesser dragons and yeric wyverns as predators. I certainly never intended for that to happen, and wish that previously described tag existed and would permit them to exist in the way I desire.
Err, in the process of writing up the first adventurer definition, I realized they need their own speech file like that of minotaurs, so here's what I have so far:
You are nothing compared to me!
I have slain far worse than you with but a flick of my wrists!
So you believe you will ever prove a more formidable warrior than I? Hah!
When I was your age, we strangled dragons with our bare hands, and knocked colossi' heads off with fluffy wamblers!
My kill count is over nine thousand!
You thought Obok Meatgod was evil and powerful?! Hah! He was but a child for MY amusement.
I have seen the world through my immortality, and your demise at my hands through my dreams.
I am the only true god of war!
My companions are DEAD. How do you THINK I feel?
You wonder how I came to reside here? Well, after being exiled for killing the last punk like you, I took my current home over the corpse of a terrible beast!
...and that's the story of how I came to know Cacame Awemedinade. And coinicidentally how I came into a position to kill him.
You must worship Lur Thiefwitch to be so jealous of a title you cannot possibly hope to take from me!
They sent another peasant to fight me? Come on, did I actually wipe out the entire military of BOTH nations?
You are no demigod. You are but a miserable sack of fat to be tortured at my leisure!
A new-line break signifies the end of each one. Any others I should add/remove to make them both intimidating and humorous personalities?