I'm the grimdarkness of the worldgen, everything is willow trees and swamps.
Hello thread! This post is long, rambling, and almost entirely off the main topic.
Since I didn't get to comment at the RPG gender thing, I will comment on it now: I will play either gender. In something like Fallout (2 is still best, but love them all), I'll play both genders - how the world interacts with you is a huge part of the game, and it's very different between the genders. Mass Effect or Dragon Age? Both genders.
I played DC Universe for a day or two last week while visiting relatives, and I played female character - I really don't care much for the "absurdly muscular" character type, which isn't even all that common amongst superheroes nowadays, so I'm not sure why that was my only choice - so I played female. Sometimes it really is about what looks best.
I didn't even notice I didn't have tetrahedrite - I just figured the civs I picked on embark didn't have any! Thankfully I'm always swimming in iron (Dwarves would probably do that literally). Tomi's embark is pretty different in some ways from mine. I might start my next embark with creatures I'm willing to butcher next time (so far have embarked only with egg-producing and milk/fur creatures), currently spend about 60 points on meat.
I suppose after all this time, I'm still really bad at trap placement. Currently embarking on a totally flat biome, so I have to dig straight down. Not sure how I'm going to set up defenses, but I suppose a ridiculous wall is called for. I want a deep moat, but then I'd end up carving into the soil storage areas of my fort!
Looking forward to a copper-laden world when Deon is done with beer, porn, and Sega Shadowrun (Which I am terrible at - Guess it's the PnP for me).