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[Sowelu]

Random critters could be handled by creating alternating "magma man" pieces owned by either player, every ten turns or something.  They're unpredictable enough.  Heck, you could say "every 10 turns, each player spins a wheel and adds a fireman/olmman/elephant next to an appropriate terrain feature at the location of their choice".

[Aldaris]

Are we doing event cards? If we are, one reading 'WELCOME TO FUCKING BOATMURDERED, HOPE YOU LIKE MIASMA' must exist, each play is able to play 2 elephants on any wilderness tile they desire, and a few random units near the mountain are lost to a magma flooding.

[Heron TSG]

Another event card- pig leather sock!

"The catnip of dwarven society, this sock is irresistible. -1 dwarf"

[Org]

Another event card!-Stockpile Mess

Your stockpiles are a disgusting mess, your dwarves have to go to and fro, and some get lost, just to put down a tower cap barrel. -2 dwarves

[Musluk]

Monarch Butterfly Swarm (Mishap):
Your doors to the garbage disposal are stuck, causing your dwarves to choke on miasma for 2 turns. -1 on attacks and damage for 2 turns.

Skeletal Carp school (Mishap):
Skeletal carp. 'nuff said. -6 population to everyone.

Fuck the World Lever (Bonus):
You fling the lever and engulf the nearby wastes in lava, burning everything. Enemy units in your base and in adjacent squares burn. Roll a die. If it's 6, half of them survive.

Dwarven Perpetual Motion Machine (Bonus):
Your mechanics come up with a brilliant plan. +200 energy generated for 10 turns. Roll a die. If it's 1, you flood your fort.

[Org]

Cards!

Vermin!-Event Card
Vermin have invaded your food! -2 to food. Blocked if you have an animal trap card.

Animal Trap-Goods Card
Your trappers have made some animal traps, and trapped those vermin. Blocks Vermin

Has the aspect of one fey!-Event Card
One of your dwarves has gone fey! Lasts 3 Turns. If you do not have three material cards or more, your dwarf goes crazy. If you do, get an artifact card.

Tower Cap Log-Material
Your Woodcutter cut some trees to get logs. Wood.

Sandstone-Material
You have struck Sandstone! Stone.

SomeI could think of.

[Fossaman]

I've played quoridor. It's kinda fun, and you could make a pretty cool DF board game off of it.

Start with a grid of rooms with passages between them, and take turns placing either a wall/door or a unit. Once everything is placed/claimed, you can start hunting each other down through your newly created labyrinth...

[Musluk]

I've played quoridor. It's kinda fun, and you could make a pretty cool DF board game off of it.

Start with a grid of rooms with passages between them, and take turns placing either a wall/door or a unit. Once everything is placed/claimed, you can start hunting each other down through your newly created labyrinth...

Where's the magma? Or Olmmen? Or GCS? Or, hell, I dunno, skeletal carp?

[PMantix]

I really like the concept of having both above and below ground locations for each tile. And 'buried treasure' and such makes the exploration element very interesting.

Is there any particular theme within DF that you are trying to emulate?

Depending on how light/heavy you want to go, I always enjoy at least some resource management and it seems a straight fit for the theme. You could have both material and man..  er, dwarfpower as manageable resources.

One other thought I had,.. make the setup of the game reminiscent of the Age of Myth, Legend, Heroes..  Flavor can lend to gameplay, and if nothing else I think it would be neat.

[SirHoneyBadger]

I'm mostly just trying to invent a boardgame that my wife and I can play together.

She's amazing at any kind of strategy boardgame, so I want to come up with something that's complex enough to be interesting for her, while still being reminiscent of games she already likes, and simple enough for us to play together, without leading to bickering (always something to be cautious of, I find, in a relationship).

[Foa]

How about adding in Lux Delux?

Command of areas, you get resources, control a region get a worthwhile bonus.
Have a large enough army, you get to rape enemy territories, or you start setting up a turtle.

Get a region, get a special card.

And you could add other elements.

[SirHoneyBadger]

How about adding in Lux Delux?

Command of areas, you get resources, control a region get a worthwhile bonus.
Have a large enough army, you get to rape enemy territories, or you start setting up a turtle.

Get a region, get a special card.

And you could add other elements.

Not bad, Foa...Not bad at all. Maybe call region specials 'biome bonuses'?

[Aldaris]

Biome bonusses:

Beach(ADDON TOKEN TO OTHER BIOMES): + Ample soil and sand for stockpiles and glass, abundant fish including lucrative mermaids if you make a big fort, no carp.
-The occasional big sea fish, aquifiers (Lets keeep it simple and say this means no stone at all), salt water.
Effects: good supply areas, good staging grounds, a farm card is vital here.

Desert: + ample soil and sand for stockpiles and glass.
-scarce water, few ores.
Effects: Same as beaches, only not as good.

Swamp/forest: + Ample wood, water common, decent amount of soil.
-Few ores, elves, it sometimes has rivers, thus carp.
Effects: very common, not many special uses

hills(OVERLAY TOKEN): + more ores than biomes without hills (Mountains are an exception).
-Somewhat more dangerous wildlife.

Mountain:+More ore.
 +- Extra z level, cave features, very variable.
-most dangerous wildlife in existance other than carp, HFS has a chance to instantly make a player lose the game when opened.

Something like this?

[Omnidum]

Will the flora and fauna then also have the Good/Neutral/Evil alignments, then?

[Draco18s]

THE CAKE IS A SPY!

No.  The Spyro is a Pie.