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<blockquote data-quote="Olgar Shiverstone" data-source="post: 1205704" data-attributes="member: 5868"><p>They get it from dwarves via trade, which explains the traditional elf-dwarf rivalry: elves dislike being beholden to mere dwarves; dwarves don't want the world to find out that much of their wealth comes from trading with namby-pamby elves. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p><p></p><p>Edit: By playing around with the economics, you can explain why the dwarves don't have mithral. The elves pay such a high premium for it that the dwarves are better off selling it than making anything from it; they use the profits to finance the mining and refinement of a more expensive metal: adamantine.</p><p></p><p>Which suggests some interesting adventure ideas when the dwarves decide to up their monopoly prices a bit more (or the elves decide to try and break the dwarvish monopoly).</p><p></p><p>Anyone's characters feel like going into the commodity-trading business? Mithral and adamantine futures, anyone?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Olgar Shiverstone, post: 1205704, member: 5868"] They get it from dwarves via trade, which explains the traditional elf-dwarf rivalry: elves dislike being beholden to mere dwarves; dwarves don't want the world to find out that much of their wealth comes from trading with namby-pamby elves. ;) Edit: By playing around with the economics, you can explain why the dwarves don't have mithral. The elves pay such a high premium for it that the dwarves are better off selling it than making anything from it; they use the profits to finance the mining and refinement of a more expensive metal: adamantine. Which suggests some interesting adventure ideas when the dwarves decide to up their monopoly prices a bit more (or the elves decide to try and break the dwarvish monopoly). Anyone's characters feel like going into the commodity-trading business? Mithral and adamantine futures, anyone? [/QUOTE]
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