Dwarf Fortress

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This video game contains 63 potentially triggering events.
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Does the dog die?
170 supporters
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lilpig
It is common for players to breed dogs for the purpose of war, hunting, or as pets. Dogs will inevitably die as they cross paths with enemies or, rarely, of old age. Players may also be incentivized to kill their own dogs to prevent lag, as if you have too many dogs on screen it can negatively affect your FPS. The best way to avoid encountering dog death is to not embark with or purchase dogs.
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Unanswered Triggers
Is an animal abandoned?
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Is an animal sad?
39 supporters
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Is rape mentioned?
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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Are rabbits harmed?
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Are there abusive parents?
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Are there transphobic slurs?
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Abuse
Is someone stalked?
12 supporters
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Sathgirus
In adventure mode, roaming bandits may follow and ambush you while you are fast travelling.
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Sathgirus
It is uncommon, but unhappy dwarves can lash out at others. If the dwarf is married, it is not unlikely that their victim will be their partner.
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Is someone gaslighted?
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Is a child abused?
59 supporters
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Sathgirus
There is no intentional child abuse, but there are currently several bugs involving this, such as a mother accidentally placing her newborn child on the ground and leaving it there.
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Addiction
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KennethWolfe
while the plants necessary may exist there is no current simulation of marijuana or poppies mind altering effects.
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Is there addiction?
6 supporters
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Sathgirus
There is no drug addiction, but dwarves are obligate alcoholics, and vampires must drink enough blood.
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Sathgirus
Right from birth, dwarves will always prioritise drinking alcohol over water, and will become unhappy if they have no alcohol.
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Animal
Were animals harmed in the making?
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Does a horse die?
49 supporters
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Does an animal die?
(besides a dog, cat or horse)
87 supporters
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jadesescapedes
All domesticated animals can be killed and butchered.
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Are animals abused?
101 supporters
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Sathgirus
Through incompetence or malice, players may cause undue suffering to their livestock and pets. Animals can be left inside to starve, or left outside during an invasion to be killed.
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Sathgirus
It is possible to train dogs for your military, and they can be injured in battle. But there is no dog fighting for sport.
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Is there a dead animal?
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Does a cat die?
91 supporters
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Anonymous
Cats, like all domestic animals, can be butchered for meat. It's to the point of a meme within the fandom.
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Does a pet die?
79 supporters
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lilpig
You should expect any pets your dwarves have to die, either through enemy invaders, wildlife, starvation, abuse, or (rarely) of old age.
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Does a dragon die?
16 supporters
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jadesescapedes
A dragon may attack your fortress when you have accumulated 100,000 units worth of wealth, or a population of 80 dwarves. In the end, it's you or them. Dragons also die during worldgen.
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Are there spiders?
26 supporters
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samjf
"Giant" versions and benign version of several spider species, even fictional ones, exist. "Giant Cave Spiders" are a notorious creature within the community, and have been given sprites as with every other creature with the Steam release. Mods exist to replace the Giant Cave Spiders with silkworms, for example.
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Are there snakes?
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Are there sharks?
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Are there bugs?
16 supporters
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MsAnaheim
There are various insects, including giant variations and many kinds of insect people, however, the vanilla game is entirely in Ascii and uses letters to represent them
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Assault
Is someone drugged?
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Is there pedophilia?
57 supporters
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samjf
Since v50, most humanoids are only considered adults, and thus able to procreate and marry and do all labors, at 18 years of age. Before v50, the standard was 12, which is far lower than the age of majority across the world.
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lilpig
There are cages and chains to restrain prisoners.
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Is someone sexually assaulted?
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Bodily Harm
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Sathgirus
There are many bladed weapons and ways to use them in combat. As of DF2014, dwarves do not shave.
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MsAnaheim
It is possible for creatures who have their lungs severely damaged to spend a few in-game ticks struggling to breathe, and non-aquatic or non-amphibious creatures can also suffocate if they stay underneath water above neck-length for too long if they do not know how to/cannot swim
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Is there cannibalism?
21 supporters
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MsAnaheim
Sentient creatures from Elven civilizations will eat the bodies of sapient creatures they kill in war, regardless of whether they are also Elves or not
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Is someone crushed to death?
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Is someone burned alive?
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Sathgirus
This can happen from mining accidents.
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Is there body horror?
25 supporters
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lilpig
Creatures can be covered in a monster's extract, which can cause their flesh to rot away while they're still alive. There are "Night Creatures", sentient creatures that have been warped into twisted experiments by necromancers. You can encounter zombies who will continue to persist with missing body parts. Necromancers are able to reanimate severed body parts, so dwarves can be attacked by intestines and severed arms.
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Is there amputation?
11 supporters
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MsAnaheim
Amputation can occur both as part of combat and surgery
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Sathgirus
Characters' body parts can be crushed by environmental hazards or weapons. The game will describe the damage in significant medical detail.
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Is there a hanging?
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lilpig
Creatures can die from from inhaling smoke, drowning, being choked, etc
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Sathgirus
In a fight, someone can have their teeth punched out and scattered all over the floor.
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lilpig
Characters may be knocked unconscious by a number of means, such as fallen trees, cave ins, or in combat
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Sathgirus
Injuries are highly realistic and described in detail, including bone fractures and breaks.
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Does someone have a seizure?
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MsAnaheim
It is possible for attacks to the lower body of certain male creatures to "tear the geldables", rendering them unable to have children
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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Is someone tortured?
52 supporters
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Sathgirus
If your prison system is flawed or intentionally cruel, guards will beat or execute criminals, or leave them to starve in prison.
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lilpig
Dwarves can trip and fall down stairs, potentially to their deaths.
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Does someone fall to their death?
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jadesescapedes
Due to the in-depth combat system, eye mutilation is always a possibility. This is never visually represented, however, as the ASCII display consists of, well. ASCII characters. The premium version's sprites only change to reflect equipment.
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KennethWolfe
in the new versions of dwarf fortress intestines being outside of the body can be seen in the graphics, since things are no longer ascii only, but these injuries are relatively rare. In addition to this there are sprites for generalized and specific organs from creatures that can be butchered in fortress mode.
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Children
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lilpig
Goblins may appear in the form of "snatchers," and try to steal dwarven children for the purpose of slave labor. They're less likely to succeed in kidnapping actual infants though, as they are carried and protected by their mothers for some time.
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Does a kid die?
24 supporters
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jadesescapedes
Children are just as capable of dying as any other creature.
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Is a minor sexualized?
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Death
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lilpig
Most deaths in combat can be construed as a dwarf sacrificing themself for the good of their fort. You may also be put in positions where it is wise to sacrifice a dwarf to wall in a monster or stop a flood.
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lilpig
Expect many dead dwarves, and creatures of all kinds.
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Disability
Is the r-slur used?
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Drugs/Alcohol
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lilpig
Not on drugs, drugs are not depicted in the game. Some creatures can drink too much alcohol and suffer the effects of alcohol poisoning.
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Family
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Sathgirus
Goblins can kidnap children from other civilisations. During world generation, night creatures can kidnap people and make them their spouse.
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Does a parent die?
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Does someone cheat?
12 supporters
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Sathgirus
Dwarves will only have one partner, and won't even seek out another relationship if their first partner dies.
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MsAnaheim
Children's toys can be created as finished products and destroyed like any other items during the course of fortress mode gameplay.
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Fear
Are there jumpscares?
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Sathgirus
Angry ghosts can possess dwarves, making them throw tantrums. Memorialising the ghost's remains will make it disappear.
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Are there ghosts?
5 supporters
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Sathgirus
Dead dwarves that are not properly memorialised will return as ghosts to haunt your fortress until you engrave a tomb for them.
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Are there clowns?
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lilpig
The community speaks in a sort of code to avoid spoiling late-game content, and will use terms like "clown" and "circus" to avoid spoiling the true content of the late game. For the sake of those with clown phobias: there are not actually clowns, and there is no circus.
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Is there a shower scene?
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lilpig
Urine/feces is not in the game in any capacity and the developers do not wish to include them in the future
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Does someone vomit?
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Sathgirus
The following situations cause vomiting: excessive alcohol consumption, exposure to sunlight after a long time underground, injury to the intestines.
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Does someone spit?
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Sathgirus
In adventure mode, you can spit at others to express disdain. Some forgotten beasts have corrosive or toxic saliva.
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Is there audio gore?
26 supporters
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MsAnaheim
The only audio in the vanilla game is the song that plays in the title screen and the song that plays during gameplay.
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Large-scale Violence
Are there 9/11 depictions?
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Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
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Medical
Is electro-therapy used?
13 supporters
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Are needles/syringes used?
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Is there a mental institution scene?
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Sathgirus
It's important to build a hospital in your fortress in the case of a work related accident or goblin invasion.
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Does someone have cancer?
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Mental Health
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lilpig
Dwarves can ruminate on unpleasant memories in a way that can resemble PTSD.
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Sathgirus
As described above, unhappy dwarves may refuse to take care of themselves, leading to starvation or injury from environmental hazards.
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lilpig
Arguably yes. There is an "insanity" system in the game where after becoming stressed, a creature becomes permanently stuck in an extreme emotional state. One is beserk, which leads to dwarves indiscriminately fighting and potentially killing anyone they possibly can, with no exceptions. Again, this does not wear off, the implication being that your dwarf has "snapped" irrevocably.
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lilpig
Dwarves may become struck by melancholy, which will cause them to seek a way to commit suicide. They also stop eating/drinking, so if they cannot find a good enough way to die, they simply die of dehydration/starvation.
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Is there misophonia?
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lilpig
There is not much noise in the game apart from music, ambient noise, and alerts. I doubt that it would have misophonia triggers. The classic version of the game also had no audio except for some optional music; if you wanted to, you could completely mute the game without issue.
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Is there body dysphoria?
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Is there body dysmorphia?
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Sathgirus
If a dwarf with a high anxiety propensity is very mentally unhealthy, they can go "stark raving mad". They will run around babbling incoherently, drop all their items, and eventually run into a hazard and die, or simply starve to death. This condition cannot be cured.
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Sathgirus
A lot of the game is based around carving out a fortress underground, so small rooms and tunnels are common. Fortunately, the graphics are very basic and so, at least in my case, claustrophobia is generally not triggered.
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Sathgirus
If a character is sufficiently mentally unhealthy, they can refuse to eat and starve to death.
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Is there autism specific abuse?
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Sathgirus
Sufficiently unhappy dwarves will refuse to take care of themselves, leading to starvation or fatal accidents.
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Noxious
Does a baby cry?
12 supporters
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lilpig
There's no audio for it, but you can see descriptions of babies crying in the game's menus if you look for it.
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Is there shakey cam?
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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Paranoia
Is the fourth wall broken?
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Pregnancy
Is there childbirth?
12 supporters
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Sathgirus
There is no explicit birthing shown; the baby simply spawns on the same tile as the mother is standing. The mother suffers no distress.
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Are there abortions?
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Are there babies or unborn children?
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Sathgirus
Characters can miscarry due to dehydration, starvation or severe injury. This will usually make them very upset.
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lilpig
Dwarves can become pregnant, but that essentially just sets a timer for them to give birth in 9 months. If a pregnant dwarf dies, you likely wouldn't even know that they were pregnant.
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Prejudice
Are there fat jokes?
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lilpig
Some of the physical descriptions of fat dwarves can be very colorful or somewhat harsh, such as "He has a broad body made broader still by no shortage of surrounding lard"
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Sathgirus
The game only offers a binary choice of gender, but nobody will intentionally misgender anyone.
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Does the black guy die first?
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pangolin5730
There are dwarves of various sexualities in game and no homophobia present.
Same sex marriages are both legal and treated as normal (making dwarf society significantly more progressive than my home country).
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pangolin5730
Dresses and skirts are common article of clothing for all dwarves.
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Is there hate speech?
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Is a minority is misrepresented?
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Sathgirus
Characters can be LGBT+, and all characters can die, but their deaths will not be due to their identities.
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Sathgirus
Dwarf society is really quite inclusive, and will never belittle someone for having a disability.
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Are there n-words?
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Is there aphobia?
10 supporters
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lilpig
There are asexual dwarves/creatures, and they face no discrimination for their orientation.
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Relationships
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lilpig
Characters cannot enter romantic relationships with those who are significantly younger/older than them.
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Sex
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lilpig
Dwarves will procreate and have lovers, and one of their stats is how lustful they are. Dancers in taverns may also arouse their audience. Nothing is shown on screen, or becomes more graphic than that.
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lilpig
There are performers that can perform arousing dances in your tavern, which I suppose counts as objectification
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pangolin5730
Characters can lose their clothing in various ways causing them disstress and eventually this will happen in every fortress. Yet, all creatures in game are represented by ASCII letters and symbols that do not reflect their looks.
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Is there bestiality?
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3
Are there incestuous relationships?
National Sexual Assault Hotline 800.656.4673
43 supporters
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Sexism
Yes
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Sickness
Does someone have a stroke?
4 supporters
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3
Is there dementia/Alzheimer's?
13 supporters
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3
Social
Yes
4
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lilpig
Refugees can come to your fort seeking shelter.
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Are there fat suits?
11 supporters
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3
Spoiler
Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
1 supporters
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Yes
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Anonymous
Losing is fun! (But in seriousness: both Fortress and Adventure modes are open-ended sandboxes. There is no 'win' condition, but plenty of ways to die.)
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Vehicular
Does a car crash?
3 supporters
Yes
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No
7
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Sathgirus
No cars, but minecarts can crash.
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Does a car honk or tires screech?
4 supporters
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Does a plane crash?
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Yes
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Sathgirus
There are no cars, but dwarves can be injured or killed in minecart accidents.
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Violence
Is there a nuclear explosion?
2 supporters
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Is there blood/gore?
27 supporters
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No
0
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MsAnaheim
Blood and Gore is shown both in the simple Ascii art when Creatures are injured and also described in great medical detail when looking into combat logs
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Does someone drown?
9 supporters
Yes
7
No
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MsAnaheim
Non-aquatic/Non-amphibious creatures can drown if they spend too much time underwater or do not have any swimming skill and spend too much time in high water
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MsAnaheim
There are no guns in the game, however, there are crossbows and ballistae
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