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[DJ]

I don't make rock crafts, because trading them is tedious and they keep getting decorated with saphires and rubies. Instead, I bring anvil and tetrahedrite. All the silver I get out of it is made into flasks and goblets, which are then encrusted with any gems I find. I haven't done any calculations, but I think this can net me more dwarfbucks when the caravan arrives, provided I run into a vein of any valuable metal early on. That's usually not a problem, because I embark on sedimentary, which contains loads of magnetite, and where's magnetite there's platinum.

[Protactinium]

I never bring an anvil.  Other than trying to make the game more difficult I have yet to see a valid reason other than personal preference for bringing one.

When the most effective weapon in the game is a crossbow, which can made without an anvil, the "I need weapons early on, just in case" argument falls to pieces. When you can stick the dwarf with the crossbow behind a fortification 1 z-level higher than your entrance, the "I need metal armor" argument falls to pieces.

I think there's a lot of players among us who refuse to train marksmen (and use traps) because of their overpoweredness.

[smjjames]

I never bring an anvil.  Other than trying to make the game more difficult I have yet to see a valid reason other than personal preference for bringing one.

When the most effective weapon in the game is a crossbow, which can made without an anvil, the "I need weapons early on, just in case" argument falls to pieces. When you can stick the dwarf with the crossbow behind a fortification 1 z-level higher than your entrance, the "I need metal armor" argument falls to pieces.

I think there's a lot of players among us who refuse to train marksmen (and use traps) because of their overpoweredness.

Same, I don't find starting up a metal industry within the first year a real priority, and its all too easy to obtain an anvil via various methods.

I used to do Marksdwarves, but got bored of it because it was just too easy and just about always a massacre for the goblins.

[Lancensis]

I'm interested in the mod that makes layer stone worthless without polishing.

I'm more interested in why you'd polish something that you're going to carve up anyway. 

Dwarvern secret technique. Polishes inside and out.

[Wavecutter]

Any advice you follow is good advice. Even if you loose your fort due to said advice. Really. Loosing is fun.