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[Neyvn]

I just can't set them for myself anymore. Everytime I go to start a fort I load up something, look at the map and then change my mind cause I got nothing that I want to do there...

I sign up for things like Dwarf Masters cause I have no say in the matter of what I start with and what I am spos to really do. I like that, I hate leaving it up to my imagination. Cause I always get bored, think up something new that needs a fresh start or something like that...

I feel that there are TONS of players that are like this...

Give us challenges, not point us to the old Wiki Challenges, NEW ones FRESH ones...

Give us Maps, Starting Equipment/Stats, Goals, all of the above...

Challenge us...

[IronyOwl]

Schizophrenic Noble Challenge:

Make a table of achievements, goals, and aspirations. Optional: Make a second table of limitations and guidelines.

Roll randomly on table(s).

Every year, roll another die- on result of A-B, continue; on result of C-D, the mad king in charge of this operation changes his mind, and you have to reroll. If you get the same result, it has to be radically different in some fashion. Tailor results to make king/noble as stable or arbitrary as desired.

EXAMPLE:

Spoiler: Goal! (click to show/hide)

6-sided die:
1 Cathedral
2 Mausoleum
3 Selectively bred livestock menagerie
4 Invincible army
5 Museum of Fine Crafts
6 Statue army

Spoiler: Limitations (click to show/hide)

4-sided die:
1 Must use precious metals
2 Every dwarf must contribute directly
3 Population cap/quota
4 Completed in Armok-forsaken wilderness, glacier, etc.

You roll a 1, Cathedral, and decide to add a limitation, rolling a 3, population cap/quota. We'll say you prefer small forts, so this is a quota- clearly it's not a proper cathedral if there's any less than a hundred dwarves to appreciate it. You want the king to be fairly stable, so you give him a 10% chance to abruptly change his mind.
Next year, you roll the chance. If it happens to be that 10%, you roll again. If it's a cathedral again, you'll have to build it overlooking the lake instead, or it has to be of diorite, not marble! If you roll something else, he's completely changed his mind and now wants you breeding horses and giant eagles for some reason. Cathedral? What cathedral, the king wants his horses! Unless you reroll cathedral again, of course, or maybe you can treat each new request as "in addition to" rather than "everything you did was wasted, do this now!"


Of course, random tables are my first reaction to a lot of things.

[LordBucket]

I need a challange...

Mod in trap-ignore orcs to 30.x, build a five level tall, above-ground, inverted green-glass pyramid with the inverted point centered on a 10 z-level-high stack of constructed pillars. Make the width of each step of the pyramis such that the fifth level fills at least a full screen.

You may embark on a map with lava. But you may not recruit any military at any time over the lifetime of the fortress.

Once the pyramid is complete, dig out its entire length and width of all ten z-levels beneath the pyramid, attach each of the pillars to a lever, station all but your medic at the bottom and pull the lever.

Why?

To find out the effects of large quantities of shattered green-glass explosions on dwaves.

[Neyvn]

Why?
To find out the effects of large quantities of shattered green-glass explosions on dwaves.

Answer known already... Squish...

[Toady Two]

Build a Kobold village in underground level 3.

Also your Kobolds can't build bedrooms or stockpiles in mined out sections.

Your main diet will be composed of forgotten beast meat.

[Eagle_eye]

rig an entire mountain to collapse. without editing the raws. oh, and you have to dig out your fort within said mountain. Then channel out the space below it to the magma sea, get everyone inside, pull the collapse support level. see how many of them live

[Bishop36]

Build an entire above ground fortress out of oak blocks. Use the rest of the wood for anything else besides furniture/constructions.

Bonus points if it is in the shape of a giant hollow oakman. (He actually wouldn't be a bad shape for a fort...)

Bonus 2 if you make a giant microline mega-man facing him and change your music to the boss battle music.

[dwarfguy2]

make an annual repeater-powered magma flood. on a fort built entirely above-ground. with no shielding on your dwarves. survive 100 years.

[ISGC]

build a town
town hall, houses, stores, roads to the edge of the map
make it look like an actual town, use burrows frequently

[Ethereal.Frog]

Make a fort entirely above-ground.
Stone blocks constructions only.
No millitary.
Any mechanism work except for the vanilla traps must work on a cat-based repeater.

Survive a while, and make sure you collapse the whole place at your downfall.

Probably add in some cooler enemies too.

[dwarfguy2]

make humans playable in fort mode. use the human fortress challenge on the wiki.

[shadowform]

Build a...

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

1d10:
01 - Tower (circular)
02 - Building (square)
03 - Hall (rectangle)
04 - Archway
05 - Statue
06 - Pit

and use it as a...

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

1d12:
01 - Personal dining room
02 - Meeting hall / Banquet hall
03 - Personal quarters
04 - Barracks
05 - Arena
06 - Statuary garden
07 - Zoo
08 - Jail
09 - Hospital
10 - Drinking hall
11 - Artifact vault
12 - Throne room

Also, make sure it...

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

1d8:
01 - Holds four to ten statues of a precious metal, or twelve to thirty statues of a common metal/valuable stone
02 - Has a pattern engraved in the floor and walls
03 - Menaces with spikes of menacing spikes
04 - Can be sealed from the inside with a lever
05 - Has a pond, waterfall, or magma pool in the room
06 - Has a clear glass floor
07 - Is large enough to require pillars to support the ceiling
08 - Contains a tomb in the walls, hidden behind a floodgate linked to a lever hidden in a mine shaft

And then just for the heck of it,

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

1d6:
01 - Decorate everything with gems or metals
02 - Make the room into an execution chamber
03 - Include a device that allows the room to be collapsed
04 - Flood it with magma or water, and include no mechanism to drain it
05 - Use it as a meeting zone
06 - Make it span multiple Z-levels

[Keldor]

Schizophrenic Noble Challenge:

Make a table of achievements, goals, and aspirations. Optional: Make a second table of limitations and guidelines.

Roll randomly on table(s).

Every year, roll another die- on result of A-B, continue; on result of C-D, the mad king in charge of this operation changes his mind, and you have to reroll. If you get the same result, it has to be radically different in some fashion. Tailor results to make king/noble as stable or arbitrary as desired.

EXAMPLE:

Spoiler: Goal! (click to show/hide)

6-sided die:
1 Cathedral
2 Mausoleum
3 Selectively bred livestock menagerie
4 Invincible army
5 Museum of Fine Crafts
6 Statue army

Spoiler: Limitations (click to show/hide)

4-sided die:
1 Must use precious metals
2 Every dwarf must contribute directly
3 Population cap/quota
4 Completed in Armok-forsaken wilderness, glacier, etc.

You roll a 1, Cathedral, and decide to add a limitation, rolling a 3, population cap/quota. We'll say you prefer small forts, so this is a quota- clearly it's not a proper cathedral if there's any less than a hundred dwarves to appreciate it. You want the king to be fairly stable, so you give him a 10% chance to abruptly change his mind.
Next year, you roll the chance. If it happens to be that 10%, you roll again. If it's a cathedral again, you'll have to build it overlooking the lake instead, or it has to be of diorite, not marble! If you roll something else, he's completely changed his mind and now wants you breeding horses and giant eagles for some reason. Cathedral? What cathedral, the king wants his horses! Unless you reroll cathedral again, of course, or maybe you can treat each new request as "in addition to" rather than "everything you did was wasted, do this now!"


Of course, random tables are my first reaction to a lot of things.

I like this, though to make it even better, it all has to happen in the same fort, and the king rerolls each year.  Thus, you'll get a string of partially completed megaprojects, all at the same place.  For bonus points, sometimes the king should get annoyed and demand that one of them be torn down and replaced by a whole different design... XD

[blastrogath]

I think roll charts should use a d100, and they MUST have a reroll option! 

If you roll twice on type you must combine the requests, for example with tower and hall build a structure with a hall and a tower.  Rerolls can trigger more re-rolls.

Roll for type and shape if needed.  For every season until it's complete, roll once on the "bonus" chart. 

Type

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

01-10 Tower (roll for shape, must be entirely above ground)
11-20 Building (roll for shape, may be built wherever)
21-30 Hall (roll for shape, must be entirely carved from natural stone)
31-35 Bridge
36-40 Pit (roll for shape)
41-50 Giant Statue
51-55 Arena
56-60 Statue Garden
61-70 Doomsday Device (excessively large trap)
71-80 Menagerie (Just catch the beasts, you can use an existing room.  Must have at least some dangerous beasts.)
81-90 Re-roll twice.
91-95 Re-roll thrice.
96-100 "I'm fine for now, thanks!" (lucked out!)

Shape

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

If you get re-rolls: roll until you get a shape.  Combine all results.  Twinned twins are triplets.
1-20 Rectange (can be a square)
21-25 Square
26-30 Triange, equilateral
31-35 Triangle, not equilateral
36-40 Octagon, equilateral
41-50 Circle
51-55Must have interior balconies, reroll
56-60 Decorative waterfall, reroll
61-70 Domed/vaulted ceiling, reroll
71-75 Stained glass window (must depict something), reroll
76-80 Onion roof, colored pattern required, reroll
81-90 Twin structure, make 2, reroll
91-95 "my feet are cold": all floors must be warm stone, reroll
96-98 Fountain (water must come up through a hole, no visible pumps), reroll
99-100 Decorative magmafall, reroll

bonus chart: coming soon!

[blastrogath]

BONUS CHART

Every season you don't complete a project, roll d100 for your king's reaction!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

1-10 "Thats fine." (no change)
11-50 "This is taking a while..." (add +25 to all bonus rolls until completion)
51-75 "What's taking so long?" (add +50 to all bonus rolls until completion)
76-90 "You know, I changed my mind."  (roll for a new project)
91-95 "Ugh, so plain..." (all natural stone surfaces must be engraved, all blocks and furniture require a minimum of one decoration)
96-100 "It's the wrong way around, fool! (rotate the project 90 degrees!)
101-110 "You had better do the next one faster" (your next project starts out with +50 to bonus rolls
111-120 "You're doing such a good job!" (-25 to all bonus rolls until completion)
121-130 "Finish my project, or the kittens get it!" (if the project is not finished this season, excecute all cats.)
131-140 "What the workers need is motivation!  Make an example!" (Excecute a worker publicly, there must be witnesses)
141-150 "Not big enough."  (Double the size of the project)
151-155 "Make it match my eyes!" (A significant portion of the project must match the color of the king's eyes)
156-160 "You thought I meant STONE?" (the project must be entirely made of metal or wood)
156-165 "It would look so much better over there." (move the project elsewhere)
166-175 "You know, black goes with everything." (the project must be made of cast obsidian)
176-200 "While you're doing that..."  (The king wants annother project: roll for the new project.  You must still complete the old project.  Bonus rolls are reset to +0 and apply to the new project.  The new project is not considered complete until the old one is finished as well.)