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[snoopychicken]

I came across this quote the other day:

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.

Reading the dev log it seems this is definitely going to be relevant. I cant wait to be fighting vampire style night creatures only to end up with the curse myself. Then have to decided whether to carry on fighting the beast or become it.
I think it would be pretty cool to have a curse where you have to do things like drink human(or other sentients) blood/eat human flesh or you start to suffer debuffs.

[Lexyvil]

I play mostly for Adventure Mode. Can't wait to see what's new, and I just started playing this recently too (:

[Fredd]

Naw, it was a quote from some shrink named Nietzche. Toady musta been in the mead when he typed that.

[thatkid]

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Naw, it was a quote from some shrink named Nietzche. Toady musta been in the mead when he typed that.

You're not the only person who does it, so I'm not singling you out here (or not trying to anyways), but I seriously need to rant about this:

There seems to be an incredible lack of reading comprehension amongst the community that surrounds this game. Literally every thread that gets made is filled with people replying to something that is nowhere close to what the original poster, or anyone else in the thread, was saying or asking. If a person asks why they can't make wooden breastplates, they're more likely to see a slew of answers telling them they need fuel before they can smelt as opposed to any sort of response regarding why dwarves can't make armor with wood. Hell, in this very thread, where someone straight-out acknowledges that Nietzsche was the originator of a quote and attempts to create a discussion around its pertinence to upcoming code changes, someone has completely disregarded the entirety of the first post in favor of replying with something slightly related to the topic at hand.
It baffles me that you can all play a game that essentially requires reading pages upon pages of wiki, and yet you can't even fully decipher a simple paragraph of text on a forum. Seriously. You're all smart people, too. Pull your heads out of your asses.

I'm very much looking forward to that as well, OP. I primarily have used DF to play out little stories and my favorite plot-hook is a hero's fall from grave. Having a human swordsman who is violently opposed to necromancy suddenly finding himself turn to it (or become undead or what-have-you) will be incredibly fun.
That said, I think Toady One mentioned that he won't be fully implementing curses yet. So that may need to wait a bit, sadly.

[Detonate]

I'm very much looking forward to that as well, OP. I primarily have used DF to play out little stories and my favorite plot-hook is a hero's fall from grave. Having a human swordsman who is violently opposed to necromancy suddenly finding himself turn to it (or become undead or what-have-you) will be incredibly fun.
That said, I think Toady One mentioned that he won't be fully implementing curses yet. So that may need to wait a bit, sadly.

Yes, fully comprehensive curses probably won't be implemented until adventurer roles are implemented, namely the Slayer of Night Creatures. The dev log states that adventurers of this role "can be cursed by night creatures when you put them down".

[snoopychicken]

Naw, it was a quote from some shrink named Nietzche. Toady musta been in the mead when he typed that.

I didn't read it on this site, I read it while I was trying to find some books to read, I just thought it fit in really well with the upcoming release.

[Fredd]

Snoopy, please forgive me. I am mead typing, also.
But Adven mode is loads of fun. The Fortress mode players do not seem to realize the usefulness of Ad mode yet. As a old nethack fan, I love it

[imperium3]

@thatkid

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Very true. Also especially in the fortress mode forum, it's depressingly predictable that at least 75% of replies tend to be along the lines of !MAGMA! "kill them" or "you must be an elf" regardless of what the thread is actually about. Just a small extra rant there. I'll stop derailing the thread now.

I do forsee a lot of players actually attempting to catch these curses though, particularly any that grant increased power. Though it would be cool if you don't actually know what you're getting when you catch a curse, ie procedurally generated curses (I think Toady intends to do this). So if you got a bite from a vampire, it could be anything from getting serious thirst issues until you find some blood and coincidentally noticing that you can knock heads off with a punch, to getting emo-tantrums occasionally and being able to blind enemies by sparkling at them...

[Rumrusher]

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Naw, it was a quote from some shrink named Nietzche. Toady musta been in the mead when he typed that.

You're not the only person who does it, so I'm not singling you out here (or not trying to anyways), but I seriously need to rant about this:

There seems to be an incredible lack of reading comprehension amongst the community that surrounds this game. Literally every thread that gets made is filled with people replying to something that is nowhere close to what the original poster, or anyone else in the thread, was saying or asking. If a person asks why they can't make wooden breastplates, they're more likely to see a slew of answers telling them they need fuel before they can smelt as opposed to any sort of response regarding why dwarves can't make armor with wood. Hell, in this very thread, where someone straight-out acknowledges that Nietzsche was the originator of a quote and attempts to create a discussion around its pertinence to upcoming code changes, someone has completely disregarded the entirety of the first post in favor of replying with something slightly related to the topic at hand.
It baffles me that you can all play a game that essentially requires reading pages upon pages of wiki, and yet you can't even fully decipher a simple paragraph of text on a forum. Seriously. You're all smart people, too. Pull your heads out of your asses.

I'm very much looking forward to that as well, OP. I primarily have used DF to play out little stories and my favorite plot-hook is a hero's fall from grave. Having a human swordsman who is violently opposed to necromancy suddenly finding himself turn to it (or become undead or what-have-you) will be incredibly fun.
That said, I think Toady One mentioned that he won't be fully implementing curses yet. So that may need to wait a bit, sadly.

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in modded games you could have wooden breastplates maybe the person who ask had modded it in?