Utterly Mad

Quote from: Forrest on January 13, 2016, 01:43:10 am

Well, I've found that making animal people in Adventure Mode makes it ridiculously easy. Like, really.

So, I made an elephant seal axeman, and he starts with an iron halberd. This is in a rather small island world, a good amount of beasts, a few bandit camps here and there, some kobolds in one city's sewers.

End of my IRL day? Nothing left. Not a single trouble to this world. They just couldn't stop him. Anything human sized or smaller literally just couldn't break free whenever he used a chokehold, making them easily fall to the whole giant iron halberd thing, and anything else could just be dodged around until it was hacked to pieces, thanks to the fact that he moved as fast as any other creature.

Let's take something else into account here. An adult elephant seal man is 1,535,000 cm cubed. A fucking minotaur? 220,000. Trolls? 250,000. An adult human is 70,000. Like. Using something like this species just means you'll bowl over any other enemy, and I love it. Now, whenever one of my legit adventurers gets killed in a stupid, unfair way, as DF is wont to do, I just make one of these guys, and EVERYONE DIES.

Holy shit. This also means you can be metagame as fuck and join your own retired fortress and appear later in fortress mode as a citizen. I wonder how well these guys fare against clowns. Of course you will be stuck with whatever you first enter the fortress with, unless somehow magically you get a invasion which gives big enough gear.
Elephant SEALs confirmed. (see what I did there?)

That's the only real downside. They can equip any weapon just fine, but there's no species that makes armor this big, and I dunno if there ever will be. The fat and muscle on things this big is basically leather, though. They'd still give armored armored kobolds and goblins a real run for their money, thanks to how hard they hit and how difficult it is to break free of their grabs.

Didn't DF have sponge men that were practically immortal, much like their giant and regular counterparts?

Sadly, not. Sponge men are actually rather fragile, in my experience. I'm pretty sure they can be bisected, and they do still die above water.

Glorious Soviet Necropost, while I seriously contemplate plugging the DF mod that's led to my most recent adventure-mode shenanigans.

Holy Necro Post Dragon-Man!

Now gimme da goods.

Swiggity swooty. It's the sorta thing letting me make treant wooden figurines like:



Proper DF forum thread for the thing:

I have a feeling this belongs here.

I lost my shit. What are those sprites from, they look familiar? Also, am I the only one who sees a "doge" on the elves brooch?

True to my word, I grabbed a copy of Random_Dragons adventurecraft for dwarf fortress. Played a kobold and managed to actually have a long run with her. Killed an albatross, an osprey, and a sturgeon. So proud. Then I made the mistake of going into the local temple where I was attacked by a kobold blowgunner. I managed to strangle the little fucker to death, but not before he managed a solid hit with one of his little darts. I collected the loot and thought all was fine until suddenly my bold went rigid and collapsed. Check health, paralyzed and unable to breath. I've seen these symptoms before. Check the darts I picked off the blowgunners body. "Coating of giant cave spider venom." GOD DAMN YOU DRAAAGOOOOOON!!!

Was good fun though. It is really satisfying to be able to make stuff as an adventurer in that game. A note though to Random_Dragon, are you aware that your mod allows you to convert a single coin into a whole bar of metal? 1 copper coin = 1 copper bar?

Quote from: Zaweri Runewright on March 02, 2016, 01:59:38 pm

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I lost my shit. What are those sprites from, they look familiar? Also, am I the only one who sees a "doge" on the elves brooch?

I don't know. The clip was from a Warhammer video.

Gotta love it when I decide to play kobolds instead of dorfs.



And now my dogs are getting wrestlemania'd by a giant grasshopper.