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My Little Fortress: Friendship is Magma
By: Sepheris Date: June 26, 2016, 11:42 am
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This seemed the most suitable place for something like this, so
I'll wing it. I've done this before, but, unfortunately, I kind
of ran into some issues with it, and now that I feel ready to
pick it back up, it's a little out dated, so I'm starting this
over. There's a game I play, Dwarf Fortress, where you basically
manage a bunch of alcoholic dwarves to make a fortress. All
kinds of shenanigans occur, and things can go wrong
spectacularly. I am planning to run a game of this using a mod
to make MLP style ponies as the playable race. And it populates
the world with all sorts of MLP style creatures (it also borrows
from Fallout Equestria on some parts too, so there's some real
nasties living in the world). Now... to make this more forum
relevant, I'll be posting in character as Ironfire (and am
debating doing in a letter to Celestia format), and I wanted to
look here to see if any of you would be interested in having
your character(s) brought into the world. For better or worse.
And with that out of the way, time to give you a brief run down;
1) This is Dwarf Fortress. While I'll do my absolute best to
avoid it (and I mean it), death is a possibility. Could be bad
timing on a random invasion, a rampaging mega beast, or derpy AI
meaning you starve while stood in the food stockpile (glitches
can happen, albeit rarely). Another character can be renamed to
carry on your legacy, but to avoid inconsistencies in the posts,
they'll likely be named to include "-the second" (if I have a
spare unnamed character, I may be able to hide the death
entirely)
2) As for how canon this is, not even slightly.
3) If you've gotten this far and still want to throw your
character to the wolves (I'll build a big wall, okay?), then
you'll need to pick some skills you think fit your character
best. Due to the way migrants work, they may come pretrained in
other areas, but I can toggle that off and tell them to focus on
your desired skills. Only the original 7 starting characters get
complete free reign.
Continuing from the skill point above, only the first seven get
to be completely designed, after that, I'll be waiting on
migrants which can take up to an in game year. And that's if I
do well enough to attract them in the first place. I'll state
this right now, starting out, there are some skills more
desirable, if not out right required. These include Mining and
Woodcutting, Masonry and Carpentry to process them and Farming
to avoid starvation. It's possible to train in multiple skills
(for example, I usually train the same Dwarf to do Carpentry and
Woodcutting), and is usually recommended. Other skills which
most find to be common to start are Metal smithing (because
they're among the hardest to train skills), many craft skills
(need to trade something) and mechanics (someone needs to make
the bridge retractable).
Find a list of skills over here
(HTM) http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Skill.
There's too
many for me to name them all and give descriptions, so choose
from that list.
Since actually picking genders, race and colour scheme is
impossible, I'll only mention your character's actual
description (I'll try my best to match races, but that's the
best I can promise with a random generator over 7 characters). I
may make your character take side jobs if I need to, so just
take that into consideration (by that I mean if there's no one
to fill the professions I listed above, I may assign them to
characters at random so I can actually progress in the game).
Feel free to post below this with your character(s)' names and
desired skills. If you have any questions at all, then feel free
to ask me (I realise there's a lot to take in, so I'm all too
willing to help).
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Re: My Little Fortress: Friendship is Magma
By: Checkmate Date: June 26, 2016, 11:48 am
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Tinder's starting skills: 3- Liar. 2- Fighter. 2- Knife User. 2-
Bone Carver. And 1- Cheese maker
Active skills by category:
-Carpenter
-Engraver
-Animal Caretaker, Animal Trainer
-Wound Dresser (maybe)
-Cheese Maker, Milker, Shearer
-Gem Cutter, Gem Setter
-Bone Carver, Glass Maker, Leatherworker, Potter, Wax Worker,
Wood Carver
-Fighter, Knife User (when in military)
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Re: My Little Fortress: Friendship is Magma
By: Checkmate Date: June 26, 2016, 12:00 pm
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Schwambart's initial skills:
-1 apiece in each of the Doctor skills
-1 in Carpenter
-2 in Wood Crafter
-1 in Comedian
Schwambart's active skills by category:
-Woodworker: All
-Doctor: All
-Farmer: Beekeeper, Cook, Milker, Spinner, Wood Burner
-Jeweler: All
-Craftsdwarf: All
-Administrator: Building Designer
-Miscellaneous: Consoler, Observer, Pacifier, Reader, Student (I
dunno precisely how these skills get used, so putting them just
to be safe)
-Performance: Singer, Musician, Percussionist
-Scholar: Mathematician, Wordsmith
If militarized: Archer, Crossbowman, Thrower
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Re: My Little Fortress: Friendship is Magma
By: Sepheris Date: June 26, 2016, 12:18 pm
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Still need to play around a little. Archer may not be an option
(in the base game, you can't make bows and arrows), but
crossbowman is. Ranged weapons are also OP (except against
undead. Then they're so stupidly useless)
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Re: My Little Fortress: Friendship is Magma
By: Ryo Date: June 26, 2016, 12:31 pm
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Ryo's starting skills
-Armorsmith - 1
-Furnace operator - 1
-Metal crafter - 2
-Metalsmith - 2
-Weaponsmith - 1
-Miner - 1
-Siege operator - 1
-Grower - 1
Active skills
ALL - Use Ryo as she's needed. She will hopefully do her best.
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Re: My Little Fortress: Friendship is Magma
By: Sepheris Date: June 29, 2016, 11:00 am
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Figured I'd give this a quick update. The plan is the leave this
a week (since original post) before starting the game. I also
figured I'd link my first attempt, just to give an idea as to
how this would work;
(HTM) http://rpismagic.createaforum.com/gaming/my-little-fortress-new-canterlotironmurder/
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Re: My Little Fortress: Friendship is Magma
By: Ryo Date: July 4, 2016, 2:52 am
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Golden Gear
Starting skills
Mechanic - 4
Pump Operator - 2
Siege engineer - 2
Siege operator - 2
Active skills
Optics Engineer
Fluid engineer
Singer
Fighter
Building designer
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