Id prefer to not use mods, things tend to get tricky when stuff gets shifted around. An old succession I did ran into issues when some stuff Id modded in and forgot about suddenly cropped up in the middle of the game. It got fixed but it was a small hassle. Then again, I'll think about it.
Also, masterwork hasn't been updated for the most recent version of DF yet. the latest version of masterwork is for version 40.24. the current DF version is 42.02. None of the tilesets have been updated yet either.