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This is the cover of the Warhammer RPG from 1986. Note the Scottish-coded dwarf in the bottom left.

The Scottish accent has been there for dwarves since I have been playing(mid eighties). Honestly don't remember where it exactly started.

I keep feeling that there is a story we're not seeing because it's in the Forgotten Realms Adventure Guide, not the Player Guide and...

WotC probably should have added a sidebar that says they were changing the lore, which has been my problem with the playtest system...

Sure, I dig roleplaying, too, but I there's only so far I can take or expect others to take this elf-game seriously. I won't, and I...

Maybe, but there is usually some sort of seed that multiple people pick up on. For example, the occasional Welsh dwarf comes from the...

Certainly. It also might have simply been a parallel development.

There is the pink slime in Ghostbusters 2.

It may have influenced Warhammer, which influenced Warcraft and so on. Influence can grow virally. Anyone remember what accents the...

Three Hearts and Three Lions (1953/1961), by Poul Anderson, has a dwarf character, Hugi, who speaks in a Scottish dialect.

It doesn’t seem to work for me.

Clockwork automata, roc.

Nah, it was Warhammer that made dwarves Scottish (specifically Glaswegian) in the 80s. Terry Pratchett has both Scottish and Welsh...

Cormyr and the Dalelands are neighbors, and I wager the lore was supposed to be how the PDKs have expanded their territory to protecting...

I always felt Mass Effect “borrowed” a lot more from Babylon 5 than from Trek. Aside from the obvious similarity of B5 and the Citidel...