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145 (54.7%)

A bit.

57 (21.5%)

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24 (9.1%)

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11 (4.2%)

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28 (10.6%)

Total Members Voted: 263

[Lovechild]

Well it sure defies gravity...

[Assassinfox]

Also, Cthulhu, The Yith, The Elder Things (?), The Mi-Go, The Shoggoths, Dagon and Hydra, Nyarlathotep (?)...

Has anyone tried modding shoggoths into the game? 

[Lovechild]

Toady has, they are called forgotten beasts.

[Urist is dead tome]

The world Of Dwarf Fortress is a terrifying place. The most glorious forts last about a decade. And they all share the same fate.

[moki]

The world itself isn't very horrifying. Not much more than what we call the real world anyway.. it is made horrifying by the players. Neither the game world nor the game mechanics force anybody to breed mermaids for butchering, encase elves in magma or dig too deep for their own good. If you were so inclined (though admittedly, very few DF-players are), you could make a fort where everybody does what he likes, has a luxurious room, lots of food and everything else he could need. It isn't very hard to do, but somewhat boring, once everything works.
Dwarf Fortress players are positively terrifying... that one of the points I like about this community

[Urist is dead tome]

They wouldn't put the demons down their if they didn't want us to dig them out.

[Buttery_Mess]

Dwarves have this instinctive drive to build insane, dangerous things, and can barely breed fast enough to replace the deaths due to absurd subterranean exploration, failed megaprojects, and apparently harmless irrigation systems. They invite their own horrors to the world. But they're alright, they're easily cheered up by quality seating arrangements and a chest of drawers of their very own.

I would imagine that elves and humans lead lives that aren't spent perpetually swinging for grip whilst they hang over the dark precipice of oblivion. Goblins and kobolds... well, even we have the Third World. Is it so different?

Megabeasts make it sort of worse. But then, I'm sure the beasts are having fun, so hedonic calculus and all, I guess it balances out.

[Itnetlolor]

What's wrong with being the owner of an airship dedicated to the Blood God, serving as his "fist of justice", created with the blood of at least 350 of it's engineers varnishing it?

What's wrong with that is that your 'airship' doesn't fly.

Oh really?

Give it time.

[Urist is dead tome]

Holy crap!

Teach me how.

[The Doctor]

It's a trick of the camera! He just moved the view down, the construction is stationary <3

[vhappylurker]

*Face palm*
It's not a DF thing, its a Lovecraft thing. Or atleast a Cthulu thing, I think even though Ithaqau was in the mythos, it wasn't Lovecraft. Maybe, it could have been him.

Somebody needs to make it a DF thing. XD

Agreed. We need a full on Lovecraftian mod, complete with Elder Gods, crazed cultists, horrible half-breed monsters, Mi-go, and Deep Ones. Also needs to have forts that are essentially dwarven versions of Arkham, Dunwich, and any other place from the Mythos that currently slips my mind. Bonus points if Ulthar and the rest of the Dreamlands are included.

[Bohandas]

Maybe not "horrifying", but definitely "Terrifying" in places

[Bohandas]

Uncaring gods who do not care about the casualties, no heaven but a hell, insane nobles who ask for cups made out of the unminable stuff that cover Hell, forgotten beasts that make your eyes rot out or worse, ghosts that wander around endlessly, that cannot get a grave marker because the entire fortress is dead, dwarves that barely survive in a hellish existence, elves that get magma, mermaids that get butchered and their remains sold, and a ton of other horrifying things!

This paragraph would be great as lyrics for a heavy metal song.

[Urist is dead tome]

Uncaring gods who do not care about the casualties, no heaven but a hell, insane nobles who ask for cups made out of the unminable stuff that cover Hell, forgotten beasts that make your eyes rot out or worse, ghosts that wander around endlessly, that cannot get a grave marker because the entire fortress is dead, dwarves that barely survive in a hellish existence, elves that get magma, mermaids that get butchered and their remains sold, and a ton of other horrifying things!

This paragraph would be great as lyrics for a heavy metal song.

By Jove you're right!

I've decided to make a Dwarf Fortress themed metal band. Despite the fact that I can neither sing nor play any instrument. I call bass!

[Max White]

DAM IT!
Shot gun drums then...