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[Name Lips]

I'd read about all the improvements and people were raving about it, so I decided to try out adventure mode for the first time. I'm just confused about how to go about it. Here is the short, sad tale of my adventurer:

I discovered a river. I know I'm near the home where I grew up, but I'm not sure which direction to go to find it. I'll wander off in a random direction and when I go too far, just (T)ravel back and try again.

Eventually I found the Mountainhome! Now let's find somebody to give me a quest.

A few peasants, a few guards... just how big IS this place, anyway?

More peasants, more guards. Finally hit the bottom floor - about 9 z-levels down from the surface. No merchants, no quest givers.

How the devil do I get more food? I'm out of food and water. I'm still exploring this wasteland of a Mountainhome. I found a few more peasants, but they wouldn't tell me anything about HERE, just about places a few days travel away.

Where are the farmers and cooks, the nobles and merchants? Why is this place (sparsely) inhabited only by peasants and guards?

In desperation, I (T)ravel to a nearby human town, where I find a shop with various goods for sale, but again, no merchant in sight. In confusion, I figure the entire population of the town must simply be... absent. What foul magic is afoot? I eventually figure that the merchants wouldn't have left their stores unlocked and their goods visible if they didn't want them to be stolen, so I pick up a waterskin, then go outside to continue exploring the town.

About two minutes later, a human guard shows up out of nowhere and pulverizes me without so much as a by-your-leave. Guess there was an alarm (and GPS tracking system) on the waterskin.

Is this how it's supposed to go? Where do I find quests?

[Necronopticous]

It's probably best to start off as a human adventurer since it's your first experience with Adventure Mode. When you start as a human, you'll begin in the same building as the mayor of a town, who will gladly give you quests. There's also usually drunks wandering around the building that you can recruit to take some hits for you on your first quests.

[Kagus]

Dwarven mountain halls do not have shops of any kind.  Neither do elven retreats.  Only human towns have shops, and the merchants will sometimes wander off (get a drink, get something to eat, go to sleep, or simply take a walk).  Also, when you start off, you have absolutely nothing of value except for your clothes, weapons and armor, so buying things is a little difficult.

Stay away from mountain halls.  They will do you no good, as it's impossible to find the leader for quests and there aren't any other useful inhabitants.  At least elven retreats have elves in them, and elves are slightly more inclined towards adventure than other races (or maybe I just got lucky with that one guy who said he'd join me).

Human towns are really the only halfway-decent places to go for party members and items.  Drunks and the quest-giver will cluster in one spot (all one or two of the drunks, if you're lucky), and shops actually exist, even if they're not always tended.

Stealing anything or killing anyone will alert the entire town (and every other town, for that matter) to the fact that you are a dangerous criminal and must be killed on sight.

Since quests almost always lead you into dangerous locations to fight very powerful foes (including the dread giant cave spider), and don't have any reward other than the mayor giving you a pat on the back and boosting your fame (which is only useful for recruiting more party members, which is a moot point since there aren't any anymore), my advice to you is to tell the mayor where he can stuff it, and then march your way to a goblin citadel.

There are some dangerous crossbow-toting guards at times, but mostly it's just a horde of easily-maimed cannon fodder that wears lots of expensive giant cave spider silk clothing whcih can be sold to buy lots of new armor and weapons.

Or, play fortress mode.  Either way.

[Karlito]

Its really much more fun to go on a rampage an slaughter human villagers in their sleep.  Its even more fun to do so when you've modded yourself in as a Bronze Colossus.  But maybe that's just me.  

[Kagus]

Nope, me too.  "Talos" will forever be one of my better Adv. mode experiences.  Had both eyes ripped out by a giant, and didn't end up any worse for the wear.  Blowing up antmen by punting them into a wall is also great fun.

Pity it's harder to mod in adventure mode creatures nowadays.  You have to set up a whole civilization of them in order to get it to work.

Mmm...  "Colossus Fortress".  I suppose that has a certain ring to it.

[HopFlash]

one note...

if you kill people of a town or steal their things you have the "nearby" towns as enemies.
But if you travel several days far from "home" then there are new people who don't know your crimes. but there is a little thing you shouldn't forget...your coins from the "first" towns are valueless in the "new" towns. they have there own currency.