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[Greep]

It'd be really awesome if a table of randomness were created, so people bored with their fort could decide what amusing fate should befall it.  Or much more awesome, make a succession fort entirely based off this concept. 

So here's how it works: people visiting the thread add a few ideas to the chart, I stop when we reach a few hundred and compile the list.  From there one can roll an X sided die and 2 ten sided dice (or just use some rng program or something) to find out what crazy thing they should do that season/year

So here's some to start it off (sleepy and going to bed, will update the list when I wake up):

1. Turn off every labor on every dwarf this season
2. Pull every level.
3. Breach hell if you've hit adamantine
4. Meet the next ambush/siege head on with your military
5. Turn on every labor on every dwarf this year
6. Make an awesome megaconstruction
7. Construct a tower
8. Deconstruct every wall
9. Move your entire fort to the nearest cavern
10. Release a megabeast in your living space (if none caged, reroll)
11. Construct a magma pump stack to the surface
12. Half your fort rebels and splits off to make a new fort somewhere else on the map.  Keep them there with burrows

[Dutchling]

Or just kill your mayor, you'll get a lot more fun that way, especially if he has a lot of friends

[metime00]

Let's expand it to 100 different options and roll the percentage dice combo!

[caknuck]

13. Sacrifice a beast to Armok. (designate an animal for slaughter, then dump all of its meat, bones, entrails, hide, etc into the magma.)
14. A well-regulated militia. Train every adult able-bodied dwarf up to Proficient in at least one military skill.

[Jusman]

15. Release every caged animal (and/or sentient beings) in your fort.

[Greep]

16. Set fire to the forest (No forest = reroll)
17. Move your entire fort above ground.  Even if everyone has cave sickness
18. Make topless fort.  From now on the only clothes crafted are pants.
19. Declare war on the elves.  If already at war, declare war on humans
20. Make a legendary hammerdwarf (Or highest military dwarf) your sheriff.  Disobey all future mandates.
21. If the economy started, mint lots and lots of coins.
22. Make a megaconstruction using drawridges.  Be creative
23. Make a tower defense style maze for future sieges.

[Encased in burning magma]

24: redirect a river into your fort.

[EmperorJon]

25: Your doctors have gone on strike! Undesignate all hospitals for 2 months.

[Uristocrat]

26.  Pick a tile on the surface at random.  Dig a down staircase, followed by nothing but up/down staircases until you can't dig out any more.

[GrayFoxUA]

27. Don't dig down more than 5 zlevels

[Dutchling]

28. Kill the guy with the most friends
29. Kill the spouse and children of your strongest militiadwarf

[FearfulJesuit]

30. Kill all the friends of the guy with the most friends.

[Jiharo]

31. Isolate  part of the fortress and put ten dwarves in it. Rename them accordingly and try to reenact events of "Ten little indians."

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Ten little Indian boys went out to dine;
One choked his little self and then there were nine.
Nine little Indian boys sat up very late;
One overslept himself and then there were eight.
Eight little Indian boys travelling in Devon;
One said he'd stay there and then there were seven.
Seven little Indian boys chopping up sticks;
One chopped himself in half and then there were six.
Six little Indian boys playing with a hive;
A bumblebee stung one and then there were five.
Five little Indian boys going in for law;
One got in Chancery and then there were four.
Four little Indian boys going out to sea;
A red herring swallowed one and then there were three.
Three little Indian boys walking in the zoo;
A big bear hugged one and then there were two.
Two Little Indian boys sitting in the sun;
One got frizzled up and then there was one.
One little Indian boy left all alone;
He went out and hanged himself and then there were none.

[plisskin]

32. Flood your own fort immediately. If no available fluid, re-roll.
33. Forbidding is forbidden.
34. Armok's Roulette! Build six identically colored levers in an external shack with a reloadable cave-in ceiling. Connect one of them to the ceiling. Play until you've forgotten which one is the dangerous one, or get someone else to connect them. Send dwarves to pull them one by one. For a more classic feel, connect five of the six to the ceiling.
35. Metals Are Sacred! Dump all metal items, deconstruct all metal furniture, deconstruct all forges and use only stone/wood/other materials for all purposes.
36. Outlaw Fort! Seize all trade goods from all caravans!
37. Urist McFrankenstein's Castle! All military is disbanded and only trained animals may be used for defense! Raws may be edited to allow for exotic training but invaders may not be killed, only captured and then used for !!SCIENCE!!
38. All citizens must have more opulent rooms than nobles who are forced to live in wooden shacks outdoors.
39. Labor Strike! No dwarf may work unless he receives monthly pay in a stockpile in his room!

[Jiharo]

40. Collect plenty of masks from goblin invaders. Enlist  most of the dwarves in military, make them wear masks, then lead them out to entrance of fortress. Turn on 1812 overture and collapse fortress. _{(Applies only to aboveground fortresses. And I am not sure if masks are counted as armor.)}