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Culture20 · 10-19-2015, 07:37 PM

Being highly magical using rune magic to enhance everything they create would be a very "dwarven" thing to do, but would be very non-D&D dwarven.

Give them a version of Vulcan Pon-Farr once a year or monthly, depending on how great a disadvantage you'd like it to be, with a mitigator of drunkenness. So on the surface, they're similar to normal dwarves in that they drink a lot which seems to be compulsive carousing, but they're really quieting their murderous, sexually-arroused, crazy rage.

Just be normal but short. No fart jokes, no Scottish accent, not even squat proportions. They're just smaller humans in every way. The ones the players meet happen to be miners, but they live above ground.

Make them *really* hate elves. And let that bleed over to races that are as tall and thin as elves, like humans.

Make half-elves impossible, but half-dwarves semi-common.

Narnian dwarves were sons of the earth. They are all male, and spring or are mined from the ground somehow. (Note that Narnian dwarves could reproduce with humans)

10-19-2015, 07:37 PM	#7
Culture20 Join Date: Feb 2014	Re: A dwarf by any other name... Being highly magical using rune magic to enhance everything they create would be a very "dwarven" thing to do, but would be very non-D&D dwarven. Give them a version of Vulcan Pon-Farr once a year or monthly, depending on how great a disadvantage you'd like it to be, with a mitigator of drunkenness. So on the surface, they're similar to normal dwarves in that they drink a lot which seems to be compulsive carousing, but they're really quieting their murderous, sexually-arroused, crazy rage. Just be normal but short. No fart jokes, no Scottish accent, not even squat proportions. They're just smaller humans in every way. The ones the players meet happen to be miners, but they live above ground. Make them really hate elves. And let that bleed over to races that are as tall and thin as elves, like humans. Make half-elves impossible, but half-dwarves semi-common. Narnian dwarves were sons of the earth. They are all male, and spring or are mined from the ground somehow. (Note that Narnian dwarves could reproduce with humans)