[Crakkerjakk]

I actually really like dwarves as underground Romans. Great at civil engineering, very family oreinted, and a crapload of cuthroat politicking.

The dwarven society depicted in Dragon Age, if you've played that game, was a really nifty concept to me. I don't know if I'd have such a desperately poor lower class, but the concept of just really ugly political infighting and insular viewpoints being part of what keeps dwarvn populations small is a pat of the game I really liked.