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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tonguez" data-source="post: 1875005" data-attributes="member: 1125">I'd run it so that the military IS the clan - the military leaders are the heads of the resident families and also govern the settlement. The families work the town but are ever ready to take up arms (a few at a time disappear every two weeks or so however, with a new face replacing them - these are the regular military training/patrol duties and exchanges with the Main settlement which all dwarf citizens must engage in  - no one talks about it and the PCs might not even notice unless they return later or stick around for a while).PC "Hello what happened to the Innkeeper?"Dwarf "I'm the Innkeeper"PC "I mean Turgo, he was Innkeeper yesterday?"Dwarf "Oh Turgo had to go away, I'm his brother Jurgo Pleased to meet you" *Grin*PC "Oh -!" (make it sound sinister even if it isn't!)Humans are outsiders and are dealt with by the Heads of Families (and their wives) if a human merchant is lucky enough to have a dwarf sponsor the human might be able to set up shop but is always beholden to the Dwarf Leadership.Things run very smoothly (but with possible weird feelings for outsiders) and seem quite rustic as the dwarfs cooperate in the feilds and mines and the humans try and find acceptance - but gods help any who threaten the outpost!(sounds like my hometown actually<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />)</blockquote>

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