Dwarves and Dinosaurs
Hey there. The succession fortress I'm proposing is exactly what it sounds like. Through some kind of time travel to escape the vicious, cutthroat world of 'modern' dwarven society, a small group of dwarves has been transported to the Late Cretaceous
1, a world of huge scaly and feathered monstrosities: dinosaurs. Armed with only their wits, or lack thereof, these bearded settlers attempt to survive and thrive. Or whatever story device you choose to make this work.
The creatures in this mod have been divided by real-world fossil locations into the various biomes found in the game in order to prevent overlap. That said, the genera provided are slightly anachronistic for the sake of variety. The rest of the world has not been changed though I am open to requests and suggestions should you want anything done. Being more conservatively minded in terms of gameplay, I leave it up to you to create challenges and predetermined conditions. If nothing appears, parodying the Pilgrims and the Sixers from Terra Nova is something to fall back upon. Given that not everyone is familiar with all one hundred and ten dinosaurs in the mod, I have placed a generic tooltip per type of creature in the descriptions that gauges how dangerous the creature in question is. With the information below, you may choose the climate in which the fort is going to be settled.
The biomes we picked were Arid Asia and Temperate North America, the fauna of which are detailed below. There are a lot of small to medium-sized herbivores but the number of tyrannosaurs (6) should make this somewhat more interesting...
Temperate North America2Biome Group: Mountain + Savannah Temperate + Grassland Temperate + Shrub land Temperate + Marsh Temperate Saltwater + Swamp Temperate Saltwater
Fauna: predatory amphibians, ankylosaurs, nodosaurs, ceratopsians, hadrosaurs of both varieties, thescelosaurs, pachycephalosaurs, sauropods, dromaeosaurs (raptors), troodonts, tyrannosaurs, azdarchid pterosaurs, oviraptors, crocodilians, champsosaurs.
Famous Creatures: Ankylosaurus (ankylosaur) Triceratops (ceratopsian),Parasaurolophus (hadrosaur), Pachycephalosaurus (pachy), Tyrannosaurus (tyrannosaur), Alamosaurus (sauropod) Deinosuchus (croc), Quetzalcoatlus (pterosaur)
Desert and Plains Asia3Biome Group: Desert Badlands + Desert Rock + Desert Sand + Savannah Tropical + Marsh Tropical Saltwater + Grassland Tropical + + Shrubland Tropical
Fauna: predatory amphibians, ankylosaurs, ceratopsians, hadrosaurs, thescelosaurs, pachycephalosaurs, tyrannosaurs, alverezsaurs, tyrannosaurs, dromaeosaurs (raptors), troodonts, oviraptors, ornithomimids, therizinosaurs.
Famous Creatures: Tarbosaurus (tyrannosaur), Protoceratops (ceratopsian), Velociraptor (dromaeosaur), Gallimimus (ornithomimid), Gigantoraptor (oviraptor), Therizinosaurus (therizinosaur)
Having no experience in sprite-graphics, we will be using the ASCII graphics for this run.
Rules:- Take as long as you like in real time to fulfill your year-long obligation to the fortress.
- If your write-up is not done yet but your game year is, pass the fortress file on, please.
- Try your best not to destroy the fortress. We can and will bounce back from a single man
- The rest of the rules will be negotiated to everyone's preferences.
Dwarf List:Leave a reply with your specifications if you would like a dwarf named after you.
1. SwordSpiritAlpha Paintmachine (Overseer No. 1]
Done2. Dark Archon Fortresstundra (Overseer No. 2)
Done3. Urlance Woolsbane Workplanned (Overseer No. 3)
4. Sanctume Glovework
5. jwoodward48df Lancedtreat (Overseer No. 4)
6. Gwolfski (Overseer No. 5)
7. LordBrassroast
8. Shofet
9. TheCheeseMaker (Overseer No. 6)
AchievementsBeasts Vanquished:Werekangaroo Sestah Rakfilino Beru Ener (ran away...)
Contributions of any kind, playing or not, are very much appreciated. Thanks for reading, and enjoy your day.
1. The Maastritchian if you're curious2. Mostly Hell Creek and a few assorted beasts3. All over the Gobi Desert and Nemegt Formation