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My best advice is that less is more with evil biomes. Don't bring many pets - especially dogs as they will attract fights with undead and potentially draw them over to the dwarves. Embarking on a 4x4 or larger area will help put distance between you and the baddies, but cost framerate in the long run.

Again, less is more. With less stuff to haul, you'll spend less time outside. A few bags of seeds and an anvil plus some tools can be scurried inside quickly.

I'd suggests kindly depositing the yaks or horses into nearby magma. Butcher them asap and toss the unprocessibles far away. The hair will get back up, probably. Leather won't reaninate, though. Good luck and remember, losing is fun.

I've generally tried to give my players an experience different from video games - and that's why I haven't used non-lethal damage much. If they're fighting an intelligent creature, my players know they can talk during combat - and if an enemy who isn't in a pure bloodrage is down to their last couple hit points, they're likely to bargain. I've had a lot of characters drop their weapons rather than take another arrow in the knee. Likewise, I've had characters see being captured as worse than death, and they go down swinging. In that case - we usually end up with something like that - dropping them to negatives and then stabilizing them. I'll even give them some lee-way on excessive damage (unless someone crits on the final hit, or something like that.)

The rules are valuable, as always, but can be worked around to make a more enjoyable narrative experience.

ptw as well.

Perhaps could use some SCIENCE in adventure mode and arena?

Ah, I see. That's a rather clever solution. I think I'll do that just to secure the island as a safe bastion.

I wonder if monarchs are subject to the same rules of requiring off-site holdings. My queen seems to actually be a member of the enemy elf faction - so that might have something to do with it as well.

EDIT: Unfortunately, I can't spawn an adventurer as someone from my civilization. I'm also not going to swim across the ocean to do this...

May not be specifically what you need, but from the wiki:

Game Settings
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    PRINT_MODE is another init setting. It controls the method Dwarf Fortress uses to draw the screen.
        More advanced methods allow DF to make more use of OpenGL features and therefore your graphics card. STANDARD and VBO are good starting points.
        More advanced methods may still have bugs. 2D is more likely to be reliable.

Might help a bit?

For me, it's the emergent humor the game has - things are absurd but somehow make sense. In a fort full of spiralling lunatics I check what our manager is doing outside. He's standing alone, surrounded by vomit and dead goblins. He's 'socializing'.

Likewise the randomized engravings and art are something that both fascinate and entertain me.

In 3.5 D&D nonlethal damage knocks you out when it goes above your current hp,

Oh boy, did I misunderstand that rule.

I think I owe some players and possibly a GM an apology.

I've been taken by a fey mood to start a roleplaying campaign based heavily on the world of DF. This is basically an interest check to see if there are 3-5 people interested in playing in (semi?)weekly sessions either 5e DnD or in Genesys. I'm confident either system could be molded to fit the setting with relative ease. As only a couple friends play DF - I figured here'd be a better place to gather a team.

The campaign - as I'm imagining it now - will include intrigue! Forts! Not forts! Genocide! Goblins! Hippies!Elves! Lovable but definitely actually evil NPCs!


A bit about myself: Been GMing on and off for about 10 years now. Lot of experience with Dungeons and Dragons and am a fan of 5e. Have a good amount of experience in a few other games - Shadowrun, Genesys & FF Star Wars, Rogue Trader, and a bunch of one-offs. I enjoy light-hearted, rules-ambivalent, theatre of the mind gameplay - taking time to enjoy scenes and dialogue. I think my session-to-session play is strong, but my over-arching plots are weak, so if you choose to join, any feedback on that sort of thing would be greatly appreciated.

Role playing is in no way a solo sport, so if we assemble a group, I'd like to chat with everyone together to break the ice, introduce ourselves, and most importantly iron out what sort of game we want to play. If interested, let me know!