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When thinking of the Adams brothers, think of the best intentions they might have toward the community and the long term maintainability of the game.
Now take a breather, and realize you're not even close to how good their intentions actually are 💖

I'm terrified that hospitals have a power requirement now, but it's probably just a typo. 

I rather guess it’s a typo. Powder for casts, as in https://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Health_care#Casts

Of course such an adaptation would be awesome
If you're about emerging storytelling - and I suppose you are being both a Dwarf Fortress and classic pen&paper rpg fan/player - give a look to these two modern masterpieces:

• FATE: https://www.evilhat.com/home/fate-core/
• Dungeon World http://www.dungeon-world.com

Both give you awesome instruments to create a story that spawns from the elements in real time while you play, instead of creating a story for your players to explore. Not that the first thing is not doable with Pathfinder/D&D, but FATE and Dungeon World are two notable examples of pen&paper rpgs in the current indie scene that are specifically designed to create a story on the fly with the player.

Ok, my moment of advertisement is done Love your idea, no matter how you implement it
Be sure to live-stream the gaming session once you manage to put all the pieces together

I promise I'll shut my mouth about Ars Magica after this one

Regarding the myth&magic, I have a couple of questions that are linked to a recent post of mine in the suggestions thread (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=170297.0).

1) With the Myth&Magic system, will we see magical auras? Like the Surrounding system, an area might also be associated with a Myth, and exhibit properties of that Myth. Let's say the Myth generation creates a connection between ice, lizardmen and silver (I will call these spheres), and an area highly aligned with this Myth would be colder, show often snow, ice formations, lizard-like creatures, abundant silver veins, silver colored trees, and in general entities associated with those spheres.
2) Again on this aura concept. Will we see the properties of an area modify the value of its surrounding? E.g. a fortress with a shrine to a God: will the influence of that God increase with the prayers? Will we see anything like of building a fortress in an evil biome and trying to create and expand an aura that opposes the evil biome and having the evil biome effects less strong closer to the church?
Always on this, let's say there's an area with a verdant pine forest and full of bears, and the Myth generation creates a connection between a lightning god, bears and pine trees. Given how the area "looks like" that Myth, will the association of this area with this Myth increase over time, and see the place get more lightning storm, flowers that give you a shock if you eat them, then magical creatures of lightning and so on?
3) I see dwarves being more and more creative, telling stories, playing make believe, now even writing fiction books. Will this be expanded to fairytales? And could very famous fairytales have a concrete effect on the world, and be part of some sort of Myth generation during game time? The idea being that fairies inhabit the world of imagination and a strong believe can summon the fairies to the real world. Sufficient people telling the story of the big bad wolf living in a certain cave, has the effect of actually bringing a big bad fairy wolf to that very cave.
4) More in general, will Myth creation stop at worldgen? Or will it also run during playing time and include player introduce elements?
5) How much can we expect in terms of procedurally generated magical content? Will it include normal and widespread creatures and plants? Will we have generate worlds with large forest of procedurally generated trees, animals, stone, metal etc...?


First time posting in Future of the Fortress, hope that's how you do it

we can set areas to Restricted and make dwarves avoid them, but...

nothing that follows "but" can be good

I wonder if Toady One really wants this. The unpredictability of dwarves is somehow part of the experience. It would be still cool to be able to easily define an area as dangerous/restricted, and have dwarves be conscious about the danger when heading there. Like having their Brave stat checked or something.

A little of topic: is there some talk about a "fill" mechanism to define areas? Say I want to define a volumetric area as Restricted (typical case, a cavern), or for a Burrow (typical case, a sequence of rooms/caves). It could be neat if one could select one tile, and assign the area to all tiles connected to it (like when defining a room and clicking +). If not, it's an idea for a new thread.

If magic causes unicorns then when we take unicorns out of their magical environment they will perish or stop being unicorns.  If unicorns cause magic then the unicorns will be fine if we take them out of their magical environment then they will spread that environment to wherever we put them.

I understand what you oppose of my idea, but I see this as the essential part, so I will try to give you a different vision to yours. Then you can really dislike it
My point regarding this (the feedback loop), is that I appreciate Magic being more complex and subtle and mysterious than anything else, i.e. not only a property of a place that changes what spawns in a certain area, or the special abilities of a certain creature. I like the idea that Magic is something delicate and pervasive and volatile and powerful and weird and incomprehensible. (As much as possible, I'd like Dwarf Fortress to embrace something that takes less inspiration from D&D/World of Warcraft and more from medieval textbooks, books of fairytales, and the shivers you get when you walk at night in a cemetery....here's my secret mission )
Therefore I like the idea that anything that can express Magic, is also a vehicle of Magic, not only a device to exploit some of its properties. I understand if you see it as highly impractical or hard to design or implement or whatever...but do you get my point?
Lava is cool, and dangerous, but if you know how to manipulate it, there's few to no risk, and no surprises especially. Magic, on the other end, should never be safe, or 100% predictable. The most powerful mages can deal with the most powerful Magic, but are not more safe from its danger than the inexperienced mage, but in a way it's totally the opposite as the danger is intrinsic to Magic, and more powerful spell mean...more FUN! If Magic is something you can manipulate and turn to your will, than it's not "magic" anymore, it's just another cool gadget, it's technology.
That magical artifact, the more powerful its magic, the more it should twist the reality around it. If a creature picks a powerful magical ring, and carries it around for a long time, he'll eventually acquire magical properties (does this ring a bell?). And all the same, a sword left in a pond in a very magical lake, might become magical.

Maybe this doesn't answer surgically to your point, but I think it does in a certain way. If it doesn't, I'll try to be more precise with our next exchange