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[Agorp Stronden]

Adventurer'ss need food when not teleporting. As a result the enuducated adventureer would ckohe to death. Their lack of education is deried a mastication. Mastication is the skill. To chew and not choke while eating your food.
       
       
       
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Deewarf ManMcClan chokes on unicorn horn.
Deewarf ManMcClan's tender throagt is torn.
Deewarf ManMcCllan dead.

P.S.Biting may just receive more actions to chew on food and foreign masses.

[Capntastic]

How is this fun or interesting or mythologically relevant or anything cool?

[Neonivek]

How is this fun or interesting or mythologically relevant or anything cool?

I've heard of deaths by choking in some... but generally speaking it was there in order to sort of present the reader with the sense of "how pathetic".

To make eating itself a skill... nessisary for not choking (when in real life, chewing is a skill for properly digesting food) seems weak.

As for how it is "Fun", it is simple "Standard Roguelike death". Is it stupid, non-sense, nearly unavoidable? Heck I am surprised other roguelikes havn't put a chance ordinary food will just outright kill you based on your chewing skills.

Dwarf Fortress however isn't the standard roguelike (in fact the most I play it, the less I feel like "Roguelike" even applies)

[FallingWhale]

So, you want all DF adventurers to be botched lobotomy patients?

[Capntastic]

How is this fun or interesting or mythologically relevant or anything cool?

I've heard of deaths by choking in some... but generally speaking it was there in order to sort of present the reader with the sense of "how pathetic".

Cite a source or something.  Any even vaguely important character in a story just straight up dying randomly during a meal by choking, without absurd extenuating circumstances should do.  This rules out stuff like "some greek hero who was so enthralled by a magically created meal he ate it until he died, it's a morality play about gluttony'.   We're talking about "A year after Theseus left the labyrinth he put some fish in his mouth, chewed it poorly, and died."

As for "well Nethack does it", you yourself admit that DF isn't supposed to really be like Nethack.

[Neonivek]

Generally speaking Capntastic... it ALL happened in backstore.

I have never seen someone choke to death while the book continues on (Mind you I have seen people fall down the stairs and die, get hit by a random car and die, and one romance story where a woman trying to climb down from her room fell out and died... all while the story was going on)

I have NEVER seen a story where a main important character just choked and died while the story was going on. Only "Our previous king died eating a pretzel"

[Dsarker]

So what is the OP saying? I couldn't understand. Something about chewing?

[Neonivek]

So what is the OP saying? I couldn't understand. Something about chewing?

A chewing skill to prevent choking on your food and dying.

[Dsarker]

Why would you want that/need that?

[GreatWyrmGold]

How is this fun or interesting or mythologically relevant or anything cool?

The only thing that comes to mind is Nethack, but that doesn't count. If you aren't careful, there's a couple of ways that even the ceiling can kill you.

[Capntastic]

Nethack also has Godzilla and Daleks, it's not really the style DF intends to attain.

[Agorp Stronden]

Why could you not grasp the horn in your mouth and wrestle the unicorn down? Biting should suffice to allow a successful manouveur.

How is this fun or interesting or mythologically relevant or anything cool?

What? Are you afraid'a death?

[Agorp Stronden]

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[Capntastic]

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I agree.

[sockless]

You would have to be developmentally challenged to lack the education to chew your food, or you've consumed only liquid foods all your life.
Stupid deaths don't make the game fun. That's one reason not to play Nethack, is that there are so many stupid ways to die that it stops being funny after a point.