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[TurnpikeLad]

I saw the thread on the Penny Arcade forums back in summer 2006, tried the game, was hooked.  I registered on the Something Awful forums because of their DF threads.

[Xenxe]

I was on another forum long time back on toolkitzone.com (rpg making community) and it was brought up in some thread. I was curious so I googled it and voila I have been a fan ever since.

I really need to actually make an rpg I have been a member of that site since 2006 with about 500 posts or so

[expwnent]

A friend of mine told me about this game where you organize some dwarves and set up fancy traps to destroy them with magma, but it doesn't have graphics. So I tried it, but then I was all "fuck this the user interface sucks".

Six months later, I was immensely bored at work, then I stumbleupon'd the Mermaid thread. I was overwhelmed at what an amateur I was at being evil* in games. I knew I had to learn the game. So I worked my way through TinyPirate's tutorial, then the rest is history.

*Now, of course, I realize the mermaid example is not about evil at all: it's about indifference. You don't want the mermaids to suffer, nor do you want them to not suffer. Air-drowning them is simply the most effective way of killing them, and force-breeding them is simply the most effective way of getting a renewable supply of precious mermaid bones. Therefore, you do it. If you can. Which you probably can't.

[Nikov]

Referred by friend over a round of table-top DnD.

[veok]

I found it through Gaming.stackexchange.com when the majority of the questions were dwarf fortress based. Some of the questions were outrageous enough that I found my way into the wiki, and from there, Boatmurdered. I was hooked.

[Kobold Troubadour]

I'm not really sure of the exact point of origin...but I do remember starting to read about Cacame (Dude was called the Immortal Onslaught! I had to know why....) and ended up liking the insanity of it all throughout here...

I came because of an awesome Elf, I stayed for the Dwarven humor...and the killing...and Cat biscuits...and the...

[Xvareon]

A friend of mine said he had played a game called Dwarf Fortress and recommended it to me, I eventually looked it up and downloaded it. Was so amazing I can't express in words how excited I was; all the possibilities, the things you can do, the fortresses you can build... and there's such a strong community built around it it's not hard finding people who share your sentiments towards it. Dwarf Fortress is one of the greatest games ever created.

[Ioric Kittencuddler]

I don't remember.  It was probably RPGCodex as that was the site I usually visited a lot before I started visiting this one a lot.  Or maybe it was some indie game article somewhere.  Or maybe it was an indie game article linked to on RPGCodex.  All I really remember for sure was that it was a few months before 3D.

It's funny, I never read boatmurdered.  I just decided that the game sounded awesome enough that the ASCII graphics could be tolerated if it was as good as it sounded, and it was.

[jellsprout]

On the Poll of the Day board at GameFAQs. There was a thread about hardcore games. A few people started discussing DF. A few guys mentioned they tried it, but the game was too difficult for them to learn. Naturally I had to try it.

[Wellincolin]

Well, I learned it through something I can't mention. Let's just say it's like an anonymous forum for random discussions. And no, it's not the one you're thinking right now.

[metime00]

Television Tropes and idioms! It had a bunch of stories of awesomeness, depth, and goblin AI exploitation, all wrapped up with promises of charming ASCII display(which I personally can't get enough of; gotta love the abstract). I was scared off by promises of it kicking my ass.

I decided that it would be funny to get my ass kicked so me and my friend could laugh at it. Been a fan ever since! I'm about to get a job and get donating money too!

[Kav]

I think I saw it mentioned on the Wesnoth forums first. Then after I saw a solid recommendation on the Angband forums I had to give it a try. I think that was back in '06 or '07. I remember sitting at my computer next to my brother on his laptop both of us trying to figure everything out. When trying to figure out farming I accidentally drowned the whole fortress. He was so enthralled he did it to his too. Good times.

[tHe_silent_H]

My crazy high school friend gave it to me(I'm in uni now hence spare time to play df), as well as recommending boat-murdered, i played for a few months, gave up, 12 months later i actually read boat murdered, tried again with more success,, found the forums, then the wiki, but i knew most of the game by the time i found the wiki :/

[Bigf00t]

"So, Bigf00t, what brought you here?"

Why, I'm GLaD you asked.
Who can you blame for my presence here? Gaming Mags. Quite a few years ago I got a gaming mag which had DF on the disk. (Along with some other "rogue-likes"). I am only now grateful that my entire first expedition was eaten by bloodthirsty CARP.

I promptly decided to play something else, like www.asciisector.net, Ahh much easier.
Little did I know that DF possessed a gravity-like pull. What goes away always comes back.
About 2-3 years later I remembered that super hard game I'd played, and decided that a tutorial would greatly assist.

Then I found Boatmurdered.

Nuff' said.

[fivex]

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