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[Gentlefish]

All right, I've genned a new world and started a new fort, and what does the RNG give me for a fort name? Overboards. I can't pass up the opportunity to make a megaproject dedicated to the fortress title.

So, how can I go overboard? Anyone got any good ideas?

I have indeed gone over-board. I'll be updating this thread after my first season, which should be later tonight.

IDEA: Giant, playable chess board. It won't be easy to play (They're going to be 10x10xat least 10 and constructed), but the pieces will be there.

[TruePikachu]

Build a ship in an underground lake and throw dwarves off of it.

EDIT: I said underwater lake >_>

[GreatWyrmGold]

Make a huge board. Over the whole fortress.

[crazysheep]

Make a huge board. Over the whole fortress.

Bonus points if you make a checkerboard pattern on said huge board.

[My Name is Immaterial]

Make a huge board. Over the whole fortress.

Bonus points if you make a checkerboard pattern on said huge board.

Mega bonus points if you move the fortress on to the board. Wait, no, that would be under board. Unless you build the fortress underneath the board! Yes. Do that.

[Gentlefish]

So should the board be made of wood? I'm thinking yes, with grains of obsidian. If I do a checkerboard pattern I've gotta do it right and do marble and obsidian. And put chess pieces on them.

EDIT: I wasn't thinking of a board at all when asking you guys haha. I was hoping for ideas that were "Overboard" in the sense of just crazy. Though the chess board hovering above my fort would be insane.

[crazysheep]

So should the board be made of wood? I'm thinking yes, with grains of obsidian. If I do a checkerboard pattern I've gotta do it right and do marble and obsidian. And put chess pieces on them.

Marble and obsidian sounds good already. If you do chess pieces you gotta do exactly the same - black obsidian pieces and white marble pieces. Bonus points awarded based on the following:

1 point for every generic dwarf pawn statue
3 points for any horse statue representing knights
3 points for any religious figure statues representing bishops
5 points for any statue of the mountainhomes or your fort representing rooks
9 points for any statue of your civ's queen
9001 points for any statue of your civ's king
9002 points for any statue of the leader of a civ opposing your civ

[Gentlefish]

My checker board is going to be 5x5 squares, at least. So I'll be doing generic pieces made through walls. I want to make it as big as possible, but I can't make that calculation without knowing how wide embarks usually are. I was hoping to find the info on the wiki, but it's not there. Guess I have to do it by hand. Sighh.

EDIT: That was easy. I just need to fit the largest board possible into a 190x190 area. 180x180 for a proper wood trim if I so desire. Which leaves plenty of room for each square to be 12x12. Up to 22x22 if I so wanted. I don't. Now I just need to find the center 2x2

DOUBLE EDIT: Wait shit the boards are 16x16. I can still do 12X12 and that puts me at 144x144. More than enough room for a six-tile wooden trim because FUCK ELVES. and because 150x150 is nice and pretty. Also should the "floor" of the board be an actual floor or should I take the extra time and make it walls?

[MadocComadrin]

EDIT: I said underwater lake >_>

http://www.geekologie.com/2008/09/wait-what-an-underwater-lake.php

[Berossus]

Build a wooden roof over the entire map.
A giant you know, board, over the world.

[MadocComadrin]

...held up by a single support linked to a doomsday clock.

[thiosk]

Only allowed building material is wood.

Build the fort in a wooden ark.  Prisoners must walk down a long path at which time they are dropped into the magma sea.

From the. Surface.

Walk the plank matey!

[Shash The Stampede]

Build a giant Goldie Hawn head that shoots magma out if its nostrils and mouth.

[TheDarkStar]

Build a giant board over the embark site, made of the heaviest materials you can get, and have a lever that destroys the struts.

[NESgamer190]

Build your fortress in the style of a monopoly board!

Bonus:  Have the individual "Properties" be appropriately color-coded.
Bonus:  Mint several coins in the color of monopoly money.
Bonus:  Have the Railroads use a minecart system for transfer.
Bonus:  Have the water works have the fortress' water supply, and the electric company's source of power magma.
Superbonus:  Somehow make the "Go To Jail Space" sentence various dwarves (or invaders) to Jail.

If anyone else has ideas on this, feel free to input.