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[Dradym]

like the series of nobel prizes, but dwarfy. nominations now open for the following categories:

Badassery: given to the most badass dwarf
Dwarfishness: given to the most dwarf non-dwarf
Magmaneering: best use of magma
Dwarfeneering: best overall working construction
Dwarf-art: best single useless artifact/engraving/sculpture
Dwarfitecture: best useless, but aesthetically pleasing construction
Dwarf-warfare: given to a dwarf that executed a masterful battleplan
Dwarfortress: best fortress-both with dwarfitecture and dwarfeneering
Dwarf-war-crafting: best artifact of armor/weapon variety
Bastion-ary: best fortress defenses(little/no use of military, siege buildings allowed and encouraged)

feel free to add categories, but if you nominate someone, please give reasons/references

[Lectorog]

Good idea; this should be interesting.

Dwarfishness obviously goes to Cacame. That category is already closed.

I'm nominating Rimslaughters for Bastion-ary. Reasons should be obvious from even glancing over its topic.

[Gatleos]

Dwarfortress: best fortress-both with dwarfitecture and dwarfeneering

Agh, it's so hard to choose! My brain is splitting in half!

[Cruxador]

There's a lot of overlap here. I'd say never mind having dwarfortress, dwarfitecture, dwarfineering and bastionary. Simplify that to just dwarfitecture and bastionary and we've got all bases covered.

[Satarus]

Good idea; this should be interesting.

Dwarfishness obviously goes to Cacame. That category is already closed.

I'm nominating Rimslaughters for Bastion-ary. Reasons should be obvious from even glancing over its topic.

I dunno.  There was one elf who single handedly repelled an invasion, killing and eating hundreds.  Then he starved to death that very season.  That's pretty dwarfy (except the eating sentient beings).

[Lectorog]

...killing and eating hundreds.  Then he starved to death that very season.  That's pretty dwarfy (except the eating sentient beings).

Wat. That sounds like a pretty filling meal. Do you have a link, perchance? I may have to look into this elf.

And using sentient beings for cruel things, including eating them, has been classified as fairly dwarfy.

[Qinetix]

Apart form the fact that its an elf....

[Kay12]

And using sentient beings for cruel things, including eating them, has been classified as fairly dwarfy.

Actually, devouring enemies is very elfy, not dwarfy. Dwarven ethics don't tolerate devouring enemy warriors - elven ethics do.

[jfsh]

I like this idea a lot.  I think it could be fun to do voting at the end of every major release cycle, for excellence in dwarfening during the previous "age."  Alternatively, annual or bi-annual voting.  But that way there can be some new stuff in with all the great old forts.  There could be several "laureates" for each category, and one winner.

I also wouldn't limit it to just Fortress mode (which I would separate from Legends).  Not only should some Adventurers get love, but the programmers of the utilities we all take for granted deserve a little extra mention too.  Here are some of the categories I would use:

Fortress mode
Mason's Award - excellence in above-ground fortressing (the Flarechannels Prize)
Miner's Award - excellence in below-ground fortressing (the Undergrotto Prize)
Mechanic's Award - excellence in complicated feats of engineering (or computing)
Siege Engineer's Award - excellence in trapmaking and otherwise murdering invaders
Stonecrafter's Award - excellence in stone sculpting, above or below ground
Architect's Award - excellence in aesthetic fortress beauty
Pump Operator's Award - most creative or effective use of magma
Alchemist's Award - greatest contribution to Dwarven science
Butcher's Award - to the fortress exhibiting the most callous disregard for life of any kind (this one makes me kind of nervous)
Woodcutter's Award - best handling of the Elven menace
Axe Lord's Award - greatest military, either individually or overall
King of the Dwarves - best or coolest overall dwarf of the era
-others that people think of-

and finally,
Mountainhome Award - best overall fortress of the era

Adventurer Awards - I don't know, I don't play this much.

Utilities
Could possibly give awards for: Increasing playability, Modding, Graphics, and general hacking, plus many others I'm sure.

[Putnam]

Dwarf war-crafting goes either to Prideunited (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=88327.0) or Trailmachines the Fellowship of Right (http://lparchive.org/Dwarf-Fortress-Headshoots/)