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GreatWyrmGold

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Non-Stone Slabs
« on: September 10, 2011, 12:07:30 pm »
I think it should be possible to make non-stone slabs, for at least three reasons:
1. No-digging/no-stone/etc challenges wouldn't have to come up with some insanely elaborate way to retrieve bodies unless they want to.
2. What is a better tribute to your legendary++ axedwarf who died fighting the goblin hordes, with multiple megabeast and untold goblin kills to his name, than a GOLD TOMBSTONE? A cotton candy one, of course! Or a dragon bone tombstone, or a goblin skull tombstone, or a diamond one, or...
3. It's realistic. How much harder than carving wood into a block or making a bar of metal into a block can carving or forging a slab be?

Also, odd-material slabs could A. explain the shops' wooden signs and B. allow more options for secret slabs--elves carve secrets on wood, a deity of wealth and metal might bestow a secret onto a gold slab, a legendary gemcutter who discovers some gemmey secret might cut a star ruby slab, etc.


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Re: Non-Stone Slabs
« Reply #1 on: September 11, 2011, 10:20:46 am »
metal ones should be forged with the dead person name on it.
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Re: Non-Stone Slabs
« Reply #2 on: September 11, 2011, 04:15:13 pm »
Yeah, that sounds like a good idea. So does being able to choose what (non-metal) material you want your engraved slab to be, er, engraved on.
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Re: Non-Stone Slabs
« Reply #3 on: September 11, 2011, 06:06:08 pm »
yeah,it would be nice to see an gold slab with the inscriptions in silver.
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Re: Non-Stone Slabs
« Reply #4 on: September 11, 2011, 06:09:27 pm »
Also cool.
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Re: Non-Stone Slabs
« Reply #5 on: September 13, 2011, 11:23:21 pm »
This does sound pretty cool.

It would also be cool to find slabs such as these in adventure mode - it would add more character to the world.
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Re: Non-Stone Slabs
« Reply #6 on: September 14, 2011, 02:45:54 pm »
WOW! Imagine a *golden slab* with a secret/curse written on it!
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Re: Non-Stone Slabs
« Reply #7 on: September 15, 2011, 03:39:17 am »
Quote from: peskyninja on September 14, 2011, 02:45:54 pm
WOW! Imagine a *golden slab* with a secret/curse written on it!
Or an =adamantine slab= with lovecraftian whispers.

Perhaps that should be dorfcraftian.
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Re: Non-Stone Slabs
« Reply #8 on: September 15, 2011, 04:33:15 am »
Clay slabs would be perfectly fitting. Doubly so if your dorfs could put generic engravings onto slabs, as it would be an appropriate place to engrave the epic of Dorfgamesh.
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Re: Non-Stone Slabs
« Reply #9 on: September 15, 2011, 12:22:08 pm »
Quote from: Waparius on September 15, 2011, 04:33:15 am
Clay slabs would be perfectly fitting. Doubly so if your dorfs could put generic engravings onto slabs, as it would be an appropriate place to engrave the epic of Dorfgamesh.

And his partner in crime, Elfkidu?
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Re: Non-Stone Slabs
« Reply #10 on: September 27, 2011, 04:01:51 pm »
Could add a lot of interesting things to find in adventure mode.
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