How do I go about making bronze colossi playable?
Go to your dwarf fortress folder, open the raw folder, open the objects folder, find the entity_default file, and add this to the bottom:
[ENTITY:BRONZE]
[INDIV_CONTROLLABLE]
[CREATURE:COLOSSUS_BRONZE]
[TRANSLATION:HUMAN]
[ADVENTURE_TIER:4]
[MAX_STARTING_CIV_NUMBER:0]
There you go! You'll only be able to play as an outsider, so you'll only have a spear and a knife to start with, but you should just drop them. Honestly, a BC is way more deadly with martial arts anyway, and if you want a weapon you can always pick something good up off of some poor fool sooner or later. ^^^ Also, you can play as demons. :3 Just add this to the bottom of the file.
[ENTITY:DEMONICADVENTURER]
[INDIV_CONTROLLABLE]
[CREATURE:DEMON_1]
[CREATURE:DEMON_2]
[CREATURE:DEMON_3]
[CREATURE:DEMON_4]
[CREATURE:DEMON_5]
[CREATURE:DEMON_6]
[CREATURE:DEMON_7]
[CREATURE:DEMON_8]
[CREATURE:DEMON_9]
[CREATURE:DEMON_10]
[CREATURE:DEMON_11]
[CREATURE:DEMON_12]
[CREATURE:DEMON_13]
[CREATURE:DEMON_14]
[CREATURE:DEMON_15]
[TRANSLATION:GOBLIN]
[MAX_STARTING_CIV_NUMBER:0]
That'll give you 15 (random) demons to play as. Generally the best ones are a color + brute, like midnight blue brute. Some of them aren't so good, like glass serpents. Sounds awesome in theory, sucks in practice, let me tell you. >.>
@AOD: If I knew more about modding I would try my hand at that. ^^^