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You could take a page from the WoW TCG's raid deck concept. Decks don't have to be 'balanced' or even function with the same internal mechanics. You could set one player up as the environment, and let him wreak DF style havoc.

Now that's an interesting idea. I was a little wary of it at first, but now that I think of it, that'd solve a lot of problems, in fact, make the game a lot less cumbersome. One player concentrates on dwarves and the other concentrates on monsters and other obstacles. I think I'll run with that for now.

I think somebody already made a DF deck for MtG....

To be fair, I'm sure someone has already made a DF everything.

I didn't want to make say... um... an exact "port" of the game. If I did, I'd be playing solitaire, and the game would be completely unplayable. I just wanted to catch some of the spirit of the game: it's weirdly subversive depth and complexity and complete spontaneity. For example, I might be designing the only card game with hit locations and a built-in random name generator.

But yeah, to make a carbon copy board game of DF, well, you're going to need a lot of stuff. I'm reminded when I opened the World of Warcraft board game and there was a million god damn pieces. That's not really what I want. Knowing the DF crowd, I'm certainly not afraid of making something complex, but I'd rather incorporate the things I like the most and I think are the most fun.

Hehe..I like it..Though the back should have somthing that realy symbolised dwarf fortress..Maby a pick or somthing. How would the game be played though? Maby have four race types, goblins included. You wont be able to play goblins on the field with any other races on your field other than elves, because elves are evil and obviously incourage seiges.

Here's what I'm thinking. Each player has a group of seven (or fewer) dwarves. The other players try to kill those dwarves by deploying events, monsters, and Nobles (hehe) against the other dwarves. It's a little more complicated than that, but it's a basic premise to work with.

BTW, does anyone know how to export images from the DF map archive? I want to use them as illustrations. The only way I can think of doing it is by print-screening and cropping the image, but I was wondering if there was a more efficient way of doing it. Maybe an "export" button I'm missing or something.

Exile II! Great game.

Exile III has to be among the greatest RPGs I've ever played. Not that this has anything to do with this thread. I just wanted to mention that.

This is a joke. Here is the serious evidence.   

This line:

how much wood can a woodcutter cut if a woodcutter could cut wood

is a play off of this tongue twister:

how much wood could woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

I rest my serious case. 

This "Hinterlands = Dwarf Fortress" thing is a little overblown. From what I can see, it's just a typical city-sim with some RPG elements thrown in. It doesn't make it a DF clone. "My Life as a King" already started that, and no one's comparing that to DF.

Put away your ballista bolts, you trigger-happy freaks 

As far as I know the morality system isn't fully implemented yet. To experiment, I made a race with ethic:kill enemy = appalling, and then attacked them in Adventure Mode, but nothing really happened other than me getting slaughtered. I guess it's only for World Gen wars for now.

I'd like the ability to automatically rotate crops every now and then.