Time to die in Dwarf Fortress.

i call being the child torturer

Because I'm such a nice guy, and I really hate your guts, I'm giving you people the honors of doing a bunch of choices! The first one to call 'em will have all their wishes come true, in this particular scenario of course. Nothing outside of the range of this post will be fulfilled, no matter how many unicorns you have.

Anyway.

Options are as follows, with details as well!

Vanilla DF, with the AQ mod or both?

Vanilla DF: The normal Dwarf Fortress experience, humans, elves, goblins, dwarves and kobolds. A large number of normal creatures, most exotic creatures are living in the underground(giant cave spiders, trolls, cave dragons etc.) or in savage regions of the world(giant eagles, giant desert scorpions and other giant creatures).

Pro's:
- DEM DORFS MAN

AQ mod: A bunch of monsters from AQ, some from DragonFable and a whole bunch of civs to boot. Some hostile, some friendly.

Pro's:
- The Adventurer civ is meant for fightin'! Anyone can be recruited into the military.
- The Adventurer civ is meant for creatin'! Erryone has wildly fluctuating physical and mental stats, so even a novice can create a lot of masterworks just because of their stats.
- All the monsters and hostile civs give surprise challenge.

Con's:
- Adventurer civ might have it too easy since anyone can be recruited, and they crank out superior goods even with adequate skills.

Both vanilla mode DF and the AQ mod:

Basically the same as a DF game with the AQ mod in, except the vanilla entities, humans, dwarves etc. will also be present.

If you want to choose both vanilla mode DF and the AQ mod, check this out.:

And now, to embark area options!

Special Areas
Special areas are spots that you can't solely embark on. Meaning mountains and bodies of water. If you pick either of these areas, you need at least ONE(1) normal area to surround the Special Area. You can pick both a mountain and an ocean/lake in the same embark area, but again you need one normal area to go with 'em. List is as follows:

A) Mountain
B) Lake/Ocean

Special Areas 2
Special Areas 2 are those funky spots that create features on the embark area, but don't force you to pick a normal area. List is as follows:
- Volcano(some are on ground level, others make a mountain by themselves due to being a volcano)
- River(options are a normal river or a major river. I think there's a minor river too. Anyway, the difference on 'em is the river width, and in some cases the height since major rivers tend to carve a good path on the ground around 'em, think along the lines of Grand Canyon)

Normal Areas:
These are the areas that govern the selection of wildlife and plantlife(if there is any) on the embark area. List is as follows:
- Glacier
- Tundra
- Swamp
- Taiga
- Coniferous Forest
- Broadleaf Forest
- Grassland
- Savanna
- Shrubland
- Badlands
- Rocky Wasteland
- Desert

Temperature on the part of the world we're finding the PERFECT SPOT can also do some changes, like a hot enough area makes for tropical forests and so on, cold makes forests to taiga and coniferous forests and whatever. The only big change there will be depending on the normal area picked is whether or not there will be native plantlife. For example, deserts, badlands and wastelands will have very little plants and trees growing aboveground, while glacier obviously will have none.

And now for the last option, which may be the most important one. The surroundings. Put simply, it's this:

Evil
Evil regions have EVIL PHENOMENOMS, in the newest version it means these things: Evil weather, I'm talking about blood rains(the least dangerous phenomenom), rain of muck or other unpleasant substances(effects range wildly, might cause a fever, might suffocate you instantly) and of course, evil mists(again the effects range wildly from disease symptoms, to instant death, to turning anything living caught in it to a zombie(easy to kill though) or a husk(GAME OVER MAN, GAME OVER!). Besides the evil weather, an evil area might be one that raises the dead, making it a challenge to make meat by yourself, since skins or hair that aren't tanned or weaved will raise as undead(figure it out) and at worst they can injure and/or kill your people. The evil area might also have both evil weather AND raise the dead, or have one but not the other. There is no way to tell what the area is like until you get there. In the order of severity of EVIL, the list is as follows:

- Sinister
- Haunted
- Terrifying

Undead are more likely on Haunted and Terrifying. In Sinister, depending on the area you might see harpies, ogres and other evil wildlife.

Neutral
Neutral areas are normal, just standard wildlife and weather.

- Calm
- Wilderness
- Untamed Wilds

Good
Good areas have no such thing as "good weather" or good effects, the only thing different on 'em are stuff like unicorns, or some plants that only grow in good areas. Areas are as follows:
- Serene
- Mirthful
- Joyous Wilds

Savage
To all the above areas, there is one more BONUS CHOICE, Savage areas. They are places that civilization does not settle during worldgen, but offers no problem to embark at. Well, except for the giant versions of wildlife. You might see giant kangaroos, giant eagles or giant badgers where you're at. This can be a good thing if you like giant wildlife to tame and domesticate, or a bad thing if the first thing that happens is that a bunch of giant badgers flip out and charge your dwarves. Of course, Evil Savage areas can have stuff like undead Giant Badgers and so on.

- Joyous Wilds(Good)
- Untamed Wilds(Neutral)
- Terrifying(Evil)



Now that you know, get to making a choice! Or multiple. Decide EVERYTHING if you feel like it, I don't really care, you're the ones to decide your fates after all. Just one last thing: The surrounding thing is for finetuning. If you don't care, just say stuff like "A mountain surrounded by a desert!" and I'll work by it. But if you really know your stuff and want to make others suffer, then it's obviously "An untamed wilds glacier and a terrifying taiga!"

Now get to it.

If you REALLY feel like it, call for some speshul things. Like "the fort will make and sell the finest of furniture/armors/glass items!" and so on. Use your imaginatioooooooooooooooooooooooon. Building projects are included in speshul things. How long it'll take to finish a project depends on it's size and the amount of available workforce. Remember, the more stupid or crazy ideas or projects I'm given to do, the more interested I am in playing the game! It's easy to make Dwarf Fort #45: Nothing Hostile Gets In, but it's also boring.

In case someone wants to get a turn on this thing, just say so and we can switch Overseers every year ingame. Of course that won't happen just like it hasn't happened so far.

WOW THATS RELALY BIG I ONLY GOT LIKE A QUARTER OF THE WYA THROUGH IT?!

anyways i'd say we go vanilla df with somewhere interesting to embark. Maybe terrifying savage? I dunno.