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[Deadmeat1471]

Haven't played Dwarf Fortress in a while. Am just starting a new fort.

Any ideas for interesting character/equipment picks for embark?

maybe a pure hunter fort?

[Girlinhat]

Hunters are fine, except that wildlife will disappear at times.  Interesting idea though, and should keep your migrant waves and ambushes to a minimum, with such low created wealth.  With enough food stockpiles, you could easily last between hunting chances, especially with a good cook to go through the fat/tallow.  Bring along a herbalist though, you may wanna grab local plants, or even an above-ground farm.  If you set an area for restricted travel, you shouldn't have much worn out ground, and you'll be more likely to have farmable grass instead of dejected gravel.

[Dwarfotaur]

Evil/Haunted/Terrifying biome. Depart with 2 Miners, 1 Mason/Mechanic, 1 Wood Cutter/Carpenter, 1 Cook/Thresher, 1 Planter, 1 warrior type.
I cheat a tiny bit and up the worldgens parameters for embark points as you need a tiny bit more to gear the warrior type.

You'll constantly be under attack but nothing a single trained dwarf can't handle. Try and get your metal industry up as fast as you can. Then you pretty much just make enough food/water to get by and put most of your dwarves in the military.

Then you can make things 'fun' for yourself by opening caverns and what not. For more of a challenge, tinker with the worldgen settings for megabeasts and titans (e.g. more titans and attack at lower pop and lower created wealth).

[Funtimes]

Bandit fortress, steal everything. Don't build any permanent structures.

Cavern fortress, run away from everything. Gen a world with minimum layers between caverns, dig down to connect them all and seal the world off. Survive.

Vegetarian fortress, don't kill anything. Have free range animals and live off things that haven't been intensively farmed. Don't poison your body with alcohol.

[Jake]

How about trying to run a fort without access to magma? I've always thought it's something everyone should try at least once.

[twwolfe]

How about trying to run a fort without access to magma? I've always thought it's something everyone should try at least once.

funny, this is how my fort's usually go

[Girlinhat]

I think YOU really need to try that one.  If you're incapable of running your fort without magma, then you have some issues I believe.  Unless you're on a desert, mountain, or ocean with no trees, an old-fashioned charcoal powered fort works pretty well.