Undungeon-fantasyfing your DF game

[DeadParrot]

Could start your campaign with a band of DF adventurers assumed to have one or more successful dungeon runs under their belts. Use normal DF templates for the starting characters and then award an appropriate number of points for their dungeon runs. The game starts with the local leadership, impressed with the band's recent success and growing fame, tasking them with solving "A Problem". Let the players spend the award points as they see fit. Maybe even spending them as the adventure unfolds and they see what things are useful.

Extra credit if "The Problem" is related somehow to the previous dungeon runs.
Escaped monsters now roaming the country side instead of safely living in the dungeon.
A village that had an agreement with the inhabitants of a dungeon that are now starving due to the party's destruction of the dungeon economy.