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[Adrian]

During the times Tarn demo'd the myth generator, he mentioned dwarves receiving the curse of death after "breaking the mechanism that governs fate in the universe."

Like it says in the title, i think there should be mechanisms for other things too. Like a mechanism that governs the immortality of one species, and which can be broken or damaged by another, thereby inspiring the former into a state of perpetual hatred against the latter.
Or a mechanism that governs the morality and ethics of a species.
Or one that governs the planet's tectonic and volcanic activity.
Or that controls the tides, or precipitation, arability of land.
etc.
etc.
etc.

Basically these "mechanisms" made by the gods could govern a lot of aspects of the generated world, beyond just fate.
And not every world would need to have one of each mechanism. For instance, if a myth is generated where the gods never created a mechanism to govern the elves' agelessness, the elves could just default to whatever their creature file says.

[Shonai_Dweller]

He mentioned that the ability to change fundamental laws of the universe was part of the plans in the recent interview, so yeah other types of mechanisms could be on the way.

What else could change things besides mechanisms? Killing Gods presumably is one. Arguing values with a God and winning, thus fundamentally dooming the universe would be very DF.

[overseer05-15]

World rejection reason:

• Debated with God over tenets of mortality
• Won
• 
• Profit World ceases to exist

[GoblinCookie]

It would be very complicated to tie the all the facts of the world into the myth generator.  The dev time required is going to be high enough without having to make ever more possible types of mechanisms and possible effects ad infinitum.

[Thisfox]

World rejection reason:

• Debated with God over tenets of mortality
• Won
• 
• Profit World ceases to exist

“Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mind-bogglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as the final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God.
The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist,'" says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing."
"But," says Man, "The Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. Q.E.D."
"Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.
"Oh, that was easy," says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing.”

....Babel Fish seem almost likely, but I'm guessing they'd suck dwarves brains out through their ears....