Telling a Story
Instead of having a villager wander aimlessly with the message "telling a story", have him/her actually tell a story. The storyteller would go out to the boulder or by the well, sit and begin to tell a story. The children would run from all over for storytime. No one gets any points for anything but it would be cute.
Golden Child mods
It would be cool if the GC could randomly circulate among the nursing moms and sometimes you'd get the bubbly cloud and a rainbow over the baby with a message "The Golden Child has blessed a baby!". Then this baby has greater than usual skills in one or more disciplines. All random. Some babies get blessed, some don't, and you never know what kind of talents will come until the child is weaned.
I had some other Golden Child ideas, such as an aging Golden Child passing the torch to a random replacement, but I think this would require too elaborate a mod, particularly with birth rates being so low when max populations are reached. So I guess we're just stuck with the bubbly, dancing little party meister.
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