D&D General Elves, Dwarves, Gnomes and Halflings of Color

[Zardnaar]

Mushrooms would be a go to for any dwarf so inclined imho.

I've seen some in actionits a pass from me along with datura.

 

[Enevhar Aldarion]

I have a Mexican friend who always laughs that fantasy cultures (or characters in general) based on Mexican tropes somehow seem to constantly be given dinosaurs as one of their "things". See: King of Fighters, Magic the Gathering, and there must be others but none are coming to mind right now...It's just one of those things that Mexico has apparently been associated with, despite a surprising dearth of dinosaurs in modern or historical Mexico.

Really?

Mexico: Dinosaur Fossils - EnchantedLearning.com

Mexican Dinosaur Fossils. See which dinosaur fossils have been found in Mexico.

www.enchantedlearning.com

And it is not Mexico, but Argentina has it's own version of the Loch Ness Monster:

Nahuelito - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

And dinosaurs in South America:

Neodinosaurs in the Amazon Basin

Neodinosaurs have been reported from the Amazon Basin, principally Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, and Peru, since the late 19th Century. Descriptions from South America are uniformly vaguer than the more famous neodinosaurs of central and west Africa, and no local names for any South American...

cryptidarchives.fandom.com

 

[Casimir Liber]

In any case, animal, vegetable and fungal chums make for more interesting races

 

[Yaarel]

Elf, Dwarf, and Gnome are nature beings.

A nature being is the mind of some feature of nature. The mind can project outward to manifest in a human form. This can be any human ethnicity.

Regardless of the ethnicity of this avatar, the appearance will always retain some telltale evidence of the actual natural feature.

 

[DammitVictor]

Practically everything humans consider a spice is a plant toxin evolved to keep mammals from eating it. Flavor is poison.

Dwarves have poison resistance. Dwarf food is amazing, for a dwarf-- everyone else only thinks it's bland because dwarven hospitality is very serious about not killing your houseguests.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Practically everything humans consider a spice is a plant toxin evolved to keep mammals from eating it. Flavor is poison.

Dwarves have poison resistance. Dwarf food is amazing, for a dwarf-- everyone else only thinks it's bland because dwarven hospitality is very serious about not killing your houseguests.

Yep.

Don‘t forget, some heavy metals are sweet to the human palate.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

So in my campaigns I've developed a quasi-scientific explanation for elves:

Elves have copper instead of iron in their haemoglobin equivalent. Their skin lightens with ultraviolet light instead of darkens - so subterranean drow are black - wood and wild elves that live in huge primeval forests and rarely see direct sunlight are brown/bronze/green-hued, and high elves that live in castles and silvan settings are pale skinned. In my campaigns I have always added pharisees or cold ones - chaotic neutral/evil lightskinned elves - drawing on valley elves and the pharisees from an alternate world in Q1.

Wait did a D&D product really name evil creatures pharisees!?

 

[Casimir Liber]

Wait did a D&D product really name evil creatures pharisees!?

Yes - in an alternate material plane off Q1:Queen of the Demonweb Pits (1980) - the one where Gygax was struggling to come up with ideas so David C. Sutherland cam up with a cool module and they went with it...

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Dwarven forgitas recipe:

Strips of beer marinated meat
slices of onions
hot peppers
hallucinogenic mushrooms
salt
pepper
powdered garlic

All ingredients tossed together then placed on oiled heavy iron shield, which is placed into a forge for 3 seconds. When removed, the shield’s contents are doused with the juice of an acidic fruit, and then eaten on flat dwarven bread.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

Yes - in an alternate material plane off Q1:Queen of the Demonweb Pits (1980) - the one where Gygax was struggling to come up with ideas so David C. Sutherland cam up with a cool module and they went with it...

yikes