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[Graebeard]

I used to love lining my fortress with goblin totems, but now that we can't disassemble sentient remains, I've had to find another way to humiliate invaders and display the fort's military prowess.

I've been trying to capture and showcase FBs and civilization leaders lately.  Most recently I had the demon-king of the goblins come by, but he was riding a freaking giant bat and ran off after I slaughtered his minions.  I've also started pitting caged goblins from a huge execution tower so I can separate those juicy skulls from their bodies to squeek out what few goblin totems I can.

How do you exhibit the grandeur of your fort and instill fear in the hearts of invaders?

[DoctorMonch]

Goblin chute to invaders.

We capture gobbins in cages, then construct a drop tower over the outside of the fortress walls.

I gather all the captured and stripped prisoners (except one) in a single room and then release my dwarves on them with training weapons.

The goblins get gang-banged, then I recall my dwarves, and release the single remaining goblin in that room to walk around and witness the carnage.

Then when another siege shows up, I drop that one goblin over the walls on to its friends... naked, humiliated, and busted up from the fall.

...

Ready to tell the story.

(Dwarf Fortress brings out the most sadistic part of me... but that's what the goblins get for trying to steal our children.)

[eataTREE]

Can't disassemble sentient creatures? Bah! The Cannibal Horror Dwarves disassemble whom they please. I mod dwarven ethics (in raw/objects/entity_default.txt) as follows:

        [ETHIC:KILL_ENTITY_MEMBER:ONLY_IF_SANCTIONED]
        [ETHIC:KILL_NEUTRAL:ONLY_IF_SANCTIONED]
        [ETHIC:KILL_ENEMY:ACCEPTABLE]
        [ETHIC:KILL_ANIMAL:ACCEPTABLE]
        [ETHIC:KILL_PLANT:ACCEPTABLE]
        [ETHIC:TORTURE_AS_EXAMPLE:ACCEPTABLE]
        [ETHIC:TORTURE_FOR_INFORMATION:ACCEPTABLE]
        [ETHIC:TORTURE_FOR_FUN:PERSONAL_MATTER]
        [ETHIC:TORTURE_ANIMALS:MISGUIDED]
        [ETHIC:TREASON:PUNISH_CAPITAL]
        [ETHIC:OATH_BREAKING:PUNISH_CAPITAL]
        [ETHIC:LYING:PUNISH_REPRIMAND]
        [ETHIC:VANDALISM:PUNISH_REPRIMAND]
        [ETHIC:TRESPASSING:PUNISH_REPRIMAND]
        [ETHIC:THEFT:PUNISH_SERIOUS]
        [ETHIC:ASSAULT:PUNISH_REPRIMAND]
        [ETHIC:SLAVERY:ACCEPTABLE]
        [ETHIC:EAT_SAPIENT_OTHER:ACCEPTABLE]
        [ETHIC:EAT_SAPIENT_KILL:ACCEPTABLE]
        [ETHIC:MAKE_TROPHY_SAME_RACE:PERSONAL_MATTER]
        [ETHIC:MAKE_TROPHY_SAPIENT:ACCEPTABLE]
        [ETHIC:MAKE_TROPHY_ANIMAL:ACCEPTABLE]
        [WILL_ACCEPT_TRIBUTE]
        [ABUSE_BODIES]
        [USE_EVIL_ANIMALS]
        [USE_EVIL_WOOD]

Besides being able to decorate your entrance hallway with goblin skulls, and being once more able to make practice bolts from goblin ribs, eating invaders makes farming nearly redundant. I also mod the Elves to be super goody-two-shoes to increase the chance that I'll start the game at war with them. Mmm, elf roast!

[Oliolli]

I've been thinking of making upright wooden spikes around my roads, the dropping goblins onto them. Would probably look nice.

[ledgekindred]

Twice now I've captured the goblin "Master" - the leader of the nearby civilization.  The first time I stripped her and put her in a glass-walled danger room in the middle of the meeting area.  I figured it was fitting both for her (in legends mode she had a most impressive history) and my nobles, in the "I can deconstruct this wall if you make unreasonable demands" sort of way.

Right now I have the goblin master in a simple cage in my meeting area, although I didn't strip him first.  I put a toad, a rat and a cardinal in the cage with him, for a Bird-goblin of Diamondrelic vibe.  My dorfs throw parties around his cage all the time.

Other than that, I have about 500 bodies/skulls of killed enemies in a refuse stockpile at the entrance to my fort so that I can raise the bridge and force anything incoming (migrants, merchants, invaders) to go through the stockpile before they get into the fortress.  (If they can get past the traps first, and then it opens directly into the barracks...) I periodically go through it and make sure there are no bits in there other than skeletons and the occasional heads/skulls, marking anything else for dumping into magma.  I'm going to have to expand the area because it's just about full.

edit: For some reason the kids like to play in the boneyard... morbid little bastards...

[Oliolli]

For some reason the kids like to play in the boneyard... morbid little bastards...

Urist McChild1: "Look at me! I'm the goblin! Ooga-booga!" *Holds goblin skull*
Urist McChild2: "Oh yeah? Well I'm the TROLL!" *Holds troll skull*
Urist McChild3: "Well I'm Urist McThrower!" *Throws bone*

The spinning goblin bone strikes Urist McChild1 in the head shattering the skull and tearing the brain!
An artery has been torn and many nerves have been severed.
Urist McChild1 has been knocked unconcious.
Urist McChild1 has been struck down.

There is probably a reason dwarven children don't play with anything.