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Since everybody else is doing it:

I live in Kansas.  When I got off work, it was snowing but there's hardly any.  Just enough for the wind to create those wispy little drifts that I think look cool going across sidewalks or the road.  I've been considerably less fond of snow since I started having to drive in it, but it still gives me a happy thought.

I'll admit I'd considered that idea too.  Not sure why I didn't do it.  It sounds fairly reasonable though, especially if all your hallways line up.

Oh, I probably didn't because I like the + symbol more than X or something like that.

Recently I've been preferring sites with a major river running through them which only seem to appear when I fudge the generation settings a little.  I also prefer heavily wooded swamps, and if it doesn't freeze, that'd be nice.  Something that's kind of carried over from before my current fascination with gigantic river canyons is that I usually look for sedimentary and metamorphic layers rather than igneous.  Currently aquifers don't bother me at all because with a huge river, I can just go out and around.   If I was better at visualizing stuff in 3d, any place with huge cliffs would be great.

The one I'm on right now also has a cavern that's exposed to the surface, and part of it caved into the river, but the river is only in one corner, so I'm not too happy.

Hey, this is pretty good.  I really like how you're telling things and... well there's a lot I like here that I can't put my finger on.

I don't really need a dwarf, I just wanted to let you know that you've got another person reading now!

Anyone can be a diplomat just now.  I often end up meeting with human cheese makers and pump operators.  It's a funny coincidence that it actually sent a genuine noble in your case.

When you abandon, your fortress automatically generates a name for the reclaim group.  If you go to reclaim, you'll find that your reclaim group has that name as the default.  If you change it, the Legends mode will adjust accordingly, too.

Maybe the humans just respect him more than you.

That'd mean they respect him more than me too though.

I really need to start playing with burrows so I know how to use them.  Anyway, you could choose not to completely isolate the forts.  From what I understand, if you make each mini-fort a burrow, the dwarves should stay in it, and perhaps you could have a "merchant class" that only functions as burrowless haulers.  Then you can use stockpiles to requisition items, and a merchant will go get it from wherever it is.

I really hope burrows can be used like that, because that was how I was planning my next fort, although I like the idea of this challenge.

I actually just got on to ask the same thing.  I hadn't played adventure mode much, and wanted to see how to give the peasant who just joined me a bronze halberd I picked up.  I suppose it's good to know that I can't so I don't waste more time trying to.