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[AWdeV]

In my current fort, I give my foes a single last chance to become upstanding members of society.

Or rather, a chance to feed my dwarves, a chance to enrich them, a chance to frighten off their former compatriot and a chance to slay their evil ilk.

[Loud Whispers]

All under my control live the life of monks, training and working diligently. All in all, it's pretty nice, and invaders are left alone, providing they don't touch a single friendly. Fleeing enemies are allowed to leave, unless I'm feeling mad. Captured Kobolds are given freedom, captured enemies are given homes in my fort, to spread the lurve

[Eric Blank]

Oh, I totally forgot; I NEVER kill dwarves intentionally. Nobody is useless, and there's no such thing as haulers, just off-duty jewelers, crafters, and farmers. Just about everybody gets some job in which they train. Although furniture and military gear production is usually handled by trained specialists. The militia is usually composed of migrants with at least some skill and is trained and armed as well as possible before being summoned to active duty.

And ye, I rarely get around to making decent catacombs, so the dead usually get an unmarked grave. Always mean to build them sooner, but I get distracted...

[Malarauko]

I decently house and entomb all dwarves. I provide them those two places of safety and not much else.

[Spinal_Taper]

What is this honor? Seriously, I (attempt to) treat every dwarf with respect i.e. not abandoning them to insane projects and I don't mess with caravans. Mostly though I am an unfeeling god.

[saltmummy626]

every goblin I capture gets stripped down to his skivvies and installed in cages in the dining hall and zoos. this is not for entertainment but for the betterment of goblin kind. the goblins in the dining hall learn the history of the people and occasionally talk to the dwarves. I like to call this a "taming process." over time, which care and an honest (or thoroughly faked) show of concern and polite disregard I aim to show the goblins, or at least give them the false impression, that the dwarves mean them no harm. the goblins in the zoo are there to instruct dwarven children on what to watch out for while they are playing on the trap lined bridge.

the goblins and trolls killed by my traps? well at least they have the honor of viewing their comrades being killed with the finest engraved serrated blades. so at least they know that while we may be savages, we are savages with some class.

elves are killed outright as a free service provided to the rest of the world.

[WillowLuman]

I try to save invaders from husking mist, preferring to give them an honorable warrior's death over a nightmarish, miserable undead existence.

[TheBeardyMan]

I never sacrifice a dwarf as an engineering cost-cutting measure; the only time you'll see me sending a dwarf to his death is in combat against invaders.
I always make a dining room 3 z levels deep. And I smooth and engrave the walls of the upper and middle levels.

[Naryar]

I don't embark on evil biomes.

Also I tend to get quite protective of the important dwarves here, including the starting seven. One of my military is wounded, or legendary craftsman ? I can spend months watching him over the hospital, removing and adding beds so he gets healed soon.

I care enough to give good, high-value meals and alcohol variety to dwarves, and a decent dining room and a bed at least. Sometimes an individual room for everyone, as well as a coffer and cabinet. So if you have useful skills, you are welcome and you will live well.

I also generally never cheat no use violence with dwarf and human merchants, excepted if they're getting too greedy. Most of the time elves are also good training partners, as long as they bring wood and interesting exotic animalss. a

I also have a soft spot for cats, and tend to cage them or sell them rather than killing them now that I'm in 0.31.

But most of the time i'm the classic evil overlord. Killing migrants because there are too much or they are entirely useless, incinerating goblins in magma (or using them as targets), slaying every kobold I can generally in a brutal way, murdering nobles (the useless ones only !) or just letting them die on purpose, letting really stupid dwarves die because of their stupidity, and other dog-kicking for pragmatism's sake. Also, burning animals in magma to fix FPS.

I never do something for the sake of being evil though.

[Flying Dice]

what the hell is wrong with you people?


You're all joking, right?

I have a megabeast cage stockpile until I get around to making a zoo for them.
I use cage traps so I have prisoners to torture even after my military is up and running.
Sometimes I leave enemies their armor so they survive torture longer.
I kill enemies with axedwarves, endless peppering with missiles, by stripping them and mobbing them with dogs, by dropping them off towers, into pits, off ledges.  I also drown them.
Coffins are relegated to mining tunnels for years before I build a mausoleum (then I do cool stuff for cool dead dwarves)
Severed enemy limbs are allowed to rot to make +goblin bone+ crafts.
I will steal from elves if they refuse to trade, and occasionally trap them until they berserk and use them for marksdwarf practice.
Mom's with babies are allowed to continue serving in the active military, as they're even better protected than their male compatriots.

That's all SOP for a fortress. This thread is about the exceptions that aren't needlessly, hilariously cruel.