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Since the standard bandits are giving absolutely zero challenge to a shieldball, I've been trying to find anything stronger.
I'd settle for an Ettin or Minotaur; something harder like a dragon or hydra would be preferred.
But no; absolutely nobody knows the exact location of any megabeast or semimegabeast, and I'm not searching every map tile of each area to try to find any of them.
I've been trying to use legends to locate them to no avail; all I've found is an ettin in a fortress.

I agree with a bunch of different variations.
I'll just hurl my ideas out.
Also, features some stuff posted in this thread because why not.

Giant

• 2x larger by default, normally goes up to 20x
• no major changes besides size
• already aggressive creatures become more vicious, otherwise, they act the same

Dire

• Between 1.1x and 1.8x times normal size
• much more aggressive and prone to rage
• omnivores become more frequent meat-eaters
• stronger attacks

Dwarven

• 0.6x to 0.85x times normal size
• humanoids steal booze
• wild animals drink your booze
• greater strength, reduced agility

Small

• 0.4x to 0.7x times normal size
• significant agility/gait speed boost
• loss of strength and toughness
• war trainable for the lulz

Tiny

• 0.1x to 0.33x times normal size
• extremely agile
• very fragile

Minuscule

• 0.01x to 0.09x times normal size
• basically impossible to catch or hit
• weak enough that one hit should be enough
• basically vermin, but able to be hit

Giant Giant

• 20x larger by default, normally goes up to 200x
• due to size, severe drop in agility, gains to endurance, strength, and toughness
• carnivores and omnivores are much more vicious, herbivores are just far harder to fight

Massive

• Any creature larger than 250x times regular size
• very low agility, but extremely tough to kill, even with spears
• even herbivores are somewhat more vicious than usual

Might think of more.

About to try a fun adventurer idea - holding as many shields as possible.
My character's whole name is Shieldball. I'm taking every last shield and buckler from this mead hall, getting some meat shields companions, and going off to fight stuff.
Given DF's mechanics, shouldn't holding ~15 shield's worth of shield items (bucklers aren't a "full" shield) make you nigh invulnerable?

Because only things with cool beards can invent cool things.
Humans have rather cool beards, so their inventions are rather cool.
Dwarves have DWARFY beards, so their inventions are DWARFY.

Why does drinking liquids covering your body no longer restore thirst?

My way is to have at least 1 farm plot made able to grow surface plants through channeling and reflooring.
I also use 5x5 plots.
Harvest things from the outside to eventually get seeds to make farms that grow surface plants reasonable.

Because peanut butter's too human - peanut booze, on the other hand, is dwarfy.

Why are bitter melons inedible but their leaves edible?

I have no clue.
I usually find out symptoms by hurling cats at it until it goes away.

In your major hallwys, put a ditch with 3/7 water in it. The dwarves will path through it just fine, and they will get cleaned as they do it.

If possible, have it so it can be drained.
Even better, have a typically retracted bridge over it - when it's time to purge, make the bridge appear again, purge with magma, then refill with water, then retract again.
Typically, I let dwarves stay dirty. Helps with intimidating traders, migrants, and invaders.