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[Schmaven]

I usually try to match professions with the wishes of the dwarves.  And not give rather isolated work (mining) to those who dream of raising a family.  I thought it would be interesting to make all the dwarves hippies, and have them go vegan (aside from the occasional raw rats and other vermin), then have everyone rotate training with spears, and have a stockpile of enough wooden spears for everyone to use in the fun times. 

So more societal roleplay than individual. 

[Ironfang]

I am a big fan of analyzing the implications of what I’m doing to my dwarfs. Along with seeing what kind of culture they have based on stuff like food.
I also like to have interesting designs to taverns, noble rooms, and so on.

Like one fort apparently drank a lot of sake, liked raw mussels, and liked dogs. They lived next to an atom and a waterfall in the middle of a jungle.
They liked dogs so much as to construct a giant statue of a dog made entirely out of dog soap.

[Colonel Sanders Lite]

They liked dogs so much as to construct a giant statue of a dog made entirely out of dog soap.

Considering where dog soap comes from...  Perhaps they didn't like dogs as much as you think.

[Ironfang]

They liked dogs so much as to construct a giant statue of a dog made entirely out of dog soap.

Considering where dog soap comes from...  Perhaps they didn't like dogs as much as you think.

You need a lot of them to get enough soap, then you have the rest of the dog afterwards.

[Urist McVoyager]

Too bad there's no way to turn melted fat into soap. Use that old fireproofing trick to get the fat, and you could use it at the workshop without killing the dog.

I don't often roleplay much. Everyone gets the same sized rooms, though if I feel generous I'll make the furniture out of their favorite materials.

One fort I did pay attention to engravings, and RPed them as warmongers thanks to all the engravings of people being killed. I built a drop pit and dropped people down it to injure them to train the medics for when we went to war. Then FPS death hit when a dragon burned the forest down. Funny thing is no one died, other than the dragon when a hammerdwarf brained him in one go. We also had a large number of people accidentally violate an export ban. I had a hammerer, too. Those medics got a looot of training.

[Dunamisdeos]

My wife names all her favorite dwarves and the game pretty much becomes The Adventures of Mr. Beard and his Friends.

[Bearskie]

The Adventures of Mr. Beard and his Friends and How They All Die Horribly.

[Cathar]

The Adventures of Mr. Beard and his Friends and How They All Die Horribly.

Snow white and the seven dwarves have a totally different ending once you add permadeath

[pamelrabo]

RP is the reason I keep playing this game almost daily since... Idk... ¿When did I discover it? ¿5 years ago? ¿6?

I like to start with the weakest civ and try to play as last survivors or the pioneers who will bring it back to power. I don't like to minmax or murder children or whatever other exploit.

I've tried to build some megaprojects on character, like a necropolis with as many coffins as people in my dying civ, like an inverted subterranean pyramid with the king's tomb in the last chamber. Lots of traps, of course.

Legends viewer diving gave me incredibly beautiful new motives to roleplay, like: my former queen became a necromancer and she's living in a tower deep into a haunted forest. My current fort is a military fort devoted to raising enough elite squads to send them on a killing mission. Death to the traitor queen! Long live the True Queen!

And so on and so forth.

Also, I love to draw my favourite forgotten beasts and the best stories that happen

[Spriggans]

I don't like to minmax or murder children or whatever other exploit.

How would murdering children be an exploit ?

[pamelrabo]

People kill children because they can't work, to save fps and all those nasty things. Some of them because of RPlaying, if their fortress is particularly evil and Sacrifoces and all that.

But mostly, to avoid making rooms and feeding mouths and getting fps

[Telgin]

I don't RP as much as I used to, but it is still an important part of playing for me.  I don't go so deep as to inspect individual things that the dwarves like, but I do try to keep them in whatever professions they have experience in, try to give them nice places to stay and a nice variety of food and booze.  I like to try to get couples together and start little families, and keep up with particularly accomplished dwarves.

The RPing aspect has gotten a little stale for me though, since my forts tend to end up kind of similarly.  They tend to branch out into every industry, have a modest sized militia of 20-30 highly skilled soldiers with no traps, tend to be above ground, don't go very deep into the caverns, and so on.  Maybe the most interesting fort I've done from an RP perspective was the castle I built, framing it as the son of a previous fort's duchess moving out to start his own thing (this was a long time ago, before it was kind of possible to really do this).

Right now I'm experimenting with playing modded kobolds with some options, like making steel, unavailable to them.  I'm undecided if I should make them purely carnivorous, which would add another level constraints and flavor to the game.  I'm also still working out an RP perspective to play from though.

[Dunamisdeos]

No you don't understand, Mr. Beard is special. If anything happened to Mr. Beard the Captain of the Guard or Angela, his wife, or their son, Little Sean, my wife would be despondent, and probably violent.

I have learned more ways to keep dwarves safe than I thought was ever possible. She even wants to know if they have grudges so she can figure out what manner of soap opera drama is going on with her favorite characters.

Truth be told it's highly amusing. When we were dating at restaurants she used to ask how her dwarves were doing before we even ordered drinks.

[Cathar]

Yo gimme their sheets and equipment list please, this is adorable

Also do you play with them a lot ? Cause I don't want to be the bearer of bad news, but soon or late...

[Dunamisdeos]

There have been multiple iterations of Mr. Beard and his family, because major update versions happen. It's like the flying dutchman.... there must always be a Mr. Beard. My wife is fine with the idea of multiverse of Beards ever since we watched the Flash on Netflix.

The original was in 34.11, and I still have him on a flash drive somewhere. The current one's info is as follows.

Spoiler: Mr. Beard (click to show/hide)

He's always a founder, and some manner of gruff, super-legendary axedwarf. It is worth noting that there are 16 justice-assigned cages at the time of his complaint.

Spoiler: Angela (click to show/hide)

Always a carpenter, usually a fellow founder of the fort.

Spoiler: Little Sean (Full name) (click to show/hide)

Usually he is primed to succeed his father. This iteration seems quite ready in terms of stats, and inherited his father's features.

Also worth noting that another character, William, is always a speardwarf and Mr. Beard's second. Usually his prime sparring partner. In THIS iteration, William was found dead due to unknown causes! For reals, no reports, witnesses or announcements or anything, just found dead in a main corridor. Anything is possible.