This troper just discovered a new, hilarious way to defend from siege: a narrow, zig-zaggy bridge being the only entrance. Unfortunately, it only works on dwarfs, but it's funny as hell.

VideoGameCaringPotential: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=63861.0 I didn't have to make any of that up. I just read the fort's history. So much for it being "only a little 'd' on the screen."

This troper is still new to Adventurer mode. I started as a human in a fishing town in winter. The warlord didn't have anything for me to do, so I headed south for the next town. I soon realised that I was crossing a frozen sea. Then I started getting thirsty. In my previous attempts I'd subsisted on the blood of my kills, but that wouldn't be an option here. I just kept moving. Then, a corner of my vision turned to water for a step, then an ice wall. I backtracked to the wall and found a perfect rectangle of ice that hadn't been there before. Then night set and it kept happening. Some even had deep chasms running down their middles, and some were irregularly shaped. I had set out across an ocean and was being stalked by ice fortresses. Then the ground beneath me turned to water... and I was encased in ice.

Apart from the usual "flooding your own fortress with an elaborate magma trap" issues, this troper witnessed an act of legendary stupidiy from a new hunter, who was being counter-attacked by its prey (a groundhog), whereupon he apparently committed suicide by leaping off the nearest cliff in fear: #QUOTE#The Groundhog attacks The Planter but He jumps away! #QUOTE#The Planter loses hold of[...] #QUOTE#The Planter slams into an obstacle and blows apart! #QUOTE#Bomrek Zaskel, Planter has died after colliding with an obstacle.

Strange moods are apparently possible even when a dwarf is asleep. One can only envision a CatapultNightmare-ish effect.

DissonantSerenity: A farmer remained happy after her left arm was ripped off by a giant olm; possibly because the hand at the end was already gone and she didn't miss it. She didn't even visit the doctor, she went home, had a drink and went to bed.

This troper had a dwarf named after him as part of a succession fort. The dwarf I got was female and migrated into the fortress with her husband and two children. Toward the end of the year the youngest got stolen away by a baby snatcher. Almost not too long after my dwarf got hit by a Fey Mood and made a rather nice artifact glass table. When the save file was posted at the end of the year I used Dwarf Therapist to see my dwarfs stats. Her happiness level was over one thousand because of the artifact she made despite losing her daughter. For reference, the second highest in the fortress was around 300 and I believe the average happiness level is 120.

HandicappedBadass: A hero's companion got it bad during a fight, losing the use of his foot and losing his hand completely. He survived after killing the swordsman who disabled him and went on to kill three more soldiers at a later date before finally bleeding to death. Then the hero goes and gets his arm nerves severed, obliterating his career as a swordsman, but the axewoman who did it to him was still alive. He ends up biting her arm half off before kicking her into death. He finally died from a pike to the face.

My hunter also once lost his hand, not hindering him to going to the caverns and killing every creature he encounters, finally being killed by a giant cage spider as ran out of bolts. Now he lies in a gold sarcophagus in is own heavily engraved tomb.

This troper got a lot of comments like this: #QUOTE#''Guy:'' It's kinda like the matrix. It's all letters and signs, but eventually you only see the blondes and the brunettes... #QUOTE#''Troper:'' Yep. Exactly.

These comments were milked even further by a friend who, making Let's Plays, has a huge repartoire of funny phrases.

ThisTroper once had an adventurer who was near-invincible. He would just run into camps, stab everyone in the face who tried to oppose him, kick the leader onto the ground, and chop up the leader to pieces. He would then go rifle through all of the camp's goods, and if any survivors tried to attack him, he would just turn around, chop off a limb in one strike, and go back to what he was doing. The only serious threat to him was the glaciers of the south - he lay down to sleep and woke up as an olm.

This troper once made a 16 z-level tower of ice. He then ''built his entire fortress on top of it''. Thank you, unrealistic stability and temperature programming.

This troper just had a named ettin pay a visit to his fortress. While I mobilized my military, one of my axedwarves managed to get to it ahead of the rest. The ettin ripped off the poor dwarf's right hand, which happened to be holding its axe. Expecting the dwarf to be summarily defeated, I was about to cancel its orders when ''it picked up the axe in the other hand and started whaling on the ettin''. Then, with the assistance of its squad, began to chase the ettin all over the map, leaving trails of blood behind it. The first major injury (red text on "wounds" screen) that the ettin suffered? ''To the right hand.''. (Urist Mc{{Badass}} was discharged from the army due to severe injuries after the battle. A memorial to the ettin would be placed in his quarters.)

My next fortress, Ringviolence, was just attacked by goblins; after they routed my ill-equipped military (damn you, new iron shortage!), the entire force of twelve was defeated by three cage traps (nine left), a yak and a cavy (eight left), two stonefall traps (six left), and a set of pressure plates and a steel warhammer weapon trap (one left). The last goblin attempted to flee... only to walk into a heavily-armed elven caravan. Well hello there, tree-loving friends!

An update: The elven merchants were unarmed. ''They beat the goblin to death with their bare hands.''

This Troper once had (thanks to a friend making a slight modification to elephants), HFS erupt onto the surface and then be beaten back by a horde of elepant guardians that proceeded to punish the foolish dwarfs that dared to disrupt the balance and started another, separate war with Elves, pinning the results on the meddlesome dwarfs. Do you have an idea how hard it is to stop Elephants that breed almost at near cat-like levels?

''"Some migrants have arrived, despite the danger."'' "The Danger" consisted solely of the previous mayor, who threw a tantrum for some reason or other (I probably forgot to make his latest quota of buckets or something), vandalised his own office, accidentally killed his only friend, and ended up with a broken arm, a chest wound and a 301-day jail sentence. On the bright side, the jail had pretty walls, so he balanced out to "content".

In my latest fort, a miner was killed by a troll when I first tapped the caverns. When the dwarven caravan came, I was designating items to take to the depot when I noticed one of them was a figurine of the dead dwarf. The description: ''This is a figurine of 'Prima' Blazeinked and butterflies in phyllite by Oddom Urdimsigun. 'Prima' Blazeinked is surrounded by the butterflies.'' Aww...

In this same fort, an unarmed, un-military wax worker killed a helmet snake by charging it, sending it flying into a wall.

Some time ago I was attacked by a Forgotten Beast in form of a giant snail with bat wings. It died being bitten to death by my militia captian.

This troper builds Golden Sarcophagi for the Noble's tombs. Why? Because gold is pretty, gaudy, and very useless.

Gold has a pretty high material value, too, which bumps up the standard of the room more quickly, thus meeting their 'needs'.

This troper had his fort attacked by a rather famous Cyclops. The Cyclops saw his first target of opportunity: A lumberjack. Thinking it was an easy kill, he chased him against a cliff. The terrified lumbjerjack was able to slice off one of the Cyclops's legs. He lost his axe in the process, but instead of letting the militia finish him off, he stayed there and stomped on the Cyclops's face...47 times. It was literally, a CurbstompBattle.

Both of this troper's experiences with the appearance of a giant(ess) turned out to be rather underwhelming.

The first time, the giant that arrived killed my engraver, and was too busy strangling my surgeon to notice that my (relatively poorly-equipped) militia was killing '''him''' (and the surgeon even survived, though a trip to the hospital was necessary).

The second time, a giantess had seen fit to destroy my settlement's trade depot. And she succeeded, but had to cross a line of weapon traps to do so. She then stumbled out, passing through them again, sustaining further injuries. And then my militia ''chased her back in''. '''''And out again'''''. She pretty much got eviscerated, and was easy pickings. Her body lay on the drawbridge, so I flipped it away for laughs.

@/{{Yuihime}} had a fort, Fightworked, whose migrants arrived not ten tiles away from a newly-arrived ettin. A cheesemaker was immediately killed... and his pet peachick, Ezum Laboredsneak, promptly proved her chops as a feathery ActionSurvivor by distracting and fleeing from the ettin until the army arrived to kill it. Over the next year, she flushed out and similarly evaded a giant, two kobold thieves and at least four goblin ambushes (two simultaneously). Then she matured and settled down on a nice nestbox in the hen house.

A more recent fortress, Craftgates, was attacked by a Forgotten Beast whose blood... remember that scene in ''{{Cloverfield}}''? Every army dwarf on the scene exploded into a shower of red, spread the offending substance further, and caused even more casualties, followed by the usual tantrum spiral. It was FUN.

This troper had a cave-in 116 floors below ''at the very beginning of the game'', with the cavern fully out of view. Several in-game years later, I found Hidden Fun Stuff. I didn't even have to get cotton candy.