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Pretty much how I roll, too.
I'd probably use Therapist but I run a Mac (DUCK AND COVER BOYS, WE HAVE FLAMES, INBOUND!).
I can read ASCII, but I prefer the tile sets. They are easier to sort through, even though ASCII isn't a problem.

I started working on a Pokemon mod aaaaages ago.  Sometime after the first few 3D versions.  I was pretty much going down the vanilla creatures list and replacing critters with Pokemon equivalents when possible.

I failed...I didn't have the patience for it.  I had thrown it up on the DFFD in hopes that somebody could use the start I did and finish it.  Never saw it happen, and now the raws are far too ancient to be useable for anything but disappointment. I figure it probably would have been better for all involved if I hadn't tried it at all.  I hadn't learned anything from the efforts modding tag wise I didn't already know, and it wasted a few perfectly good evenings. 

I threw a few releases of the "Greiger Mod" up which is just a bunch of miscellaneous customizations of my own game made available for the sake of like minded folks,  but always included a disclaimer that I work on it when I work on it, and don't update it regularly.  The lack of pressure is awesome, maybe if I did the Pokemod that way it would actually have been finished.

I think I saw several of them make it into the MixMod pack, the subsequent madness of the lets play as several dwarves rolling in with Meowths and one gets adopted by an insane Ekans...
But yeah, I see how that type of '150 different creatures to construct' things would start wear after a while. I think it's the type of project that needs multiple developers working on several at a time, feeding off each other - rather than one dude plugging away in their room monotonously.

Not really, I did stop making them halfway through though. All of them.

Also here's something that might help you : http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=47332.0

Huh, after fiddling around with python, I gave up and tried using it with WINE, done in 60 seconds.
For the effect I'm going for I'm going to need to come up with some of my own language files, but seems piss easy.

Thank you very much!

This is one of the best webcomic evar.

I started planning out a story loosely based on the genesis fortress, with my own modded in race, I'm playing now to see how well it works, and because Dwarf Fortress has a peculiar side effect of making me want to write. I suppose it's because of all the crazy crap that happens there.
Now I'm fairly new to this and it's not going to work like a lets play as I'm taking the role of one character, and sticking with that character.

My potential problem:
My character is going to be shunted into the military.
Unless I hold my military back until they're all fully equipped and kitted, I run the very real risk of having him wiped out the first time he goes into battle, which ends up making the whole thing very anti-climactic. Also kinda lulzy. On the other hand, If I wait it kind of ruins half the fun of DF, in my opinion (this is the reason I never use danger rooms. I don't like cranking out UberSoldiers, it's boring. You get no interesting characters that way).

Anyway, that's my personal problem, but I'm sure that, with any creative effort where DF is concerned, there are interesting little hiccups that appear.
So, tell me, what are your experiences with amusing problems that DF creates in stories, or lets plays (of any kind,) or anythign else you guys have found to use it for?

"The zombies became suspicious of the necromancer after he failed to age and he fled into the wilderness..."

One of the most hilarious bugs ever?

Were mammoth would be epic. So would a were-whale.
I want a were-axolotl.