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<blockquote data-quote="Azgulor" data-source="post: 1800874" data-attributes="member: 14291"><p><em>The Complete Book of Dwarves </em> has the chapters I'm looking for, but the focus and content are lacking. For example, although there is an entire chapter on "Your Life as a Dwarf", Clans and Society rate 2 paragraphs. Wealth rates 7 paragraphs! Now I recognize that all of these are little building blocks, but I have yet to see a functional book that describes how the dwarven society functions. I need more than "dwarven society is structured along clan lines". </p><p></p><p>So far, the best dwarven culture source I've found is "<em>Forge and Hammer - the Secret Life of Dwarves</em>" from Dragon #278 by Wolfgang Baur. Basically, I'm looking for this kind of info. If CBoD is a 3, this article is a 7, and I'm looking for a sourcebook that cranks it to 10.</p><p></p><p>The Quinessential Dwarf apparently has a stronghold generator, so does the CBoD, so I'm not sure how they compare. The Quintessential Dwarf II is supposed to have a section/chapter on dwarven clans and random generator tables for creating dwarven societies. This sounds like it's more along the lines I'm looking for, but I haven't seen the book and haven't found any reviews.</p><p></p><p>I can run with what I have and flesh out the parts I need to. I was hoping that sourcebooks were being developed that focused less on PC-tweaking and/or munchkin-making and more on role-playing. Unfortunately, I'm beginning to suspect that they don't exist...</p><p></p><p>Thanks,</p><p></p><p>Azgulor</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Azgulor, post: 1800874, member: 14291"] [I]The Complete Book of Dwarves [/I] has the chapters I'm looking for, but the focus and content are lacking. For example, although there is an entire chapter on "Your Life as a Dwarf", Clans and Society rate 2 paragraphs. Wealth rates 7 paragraphs! Now I recognize that all of these are little building blocks, but I have yet to see a functional book that describes how the dwarven society functions. I need more than "dwarven society is structured along clan lines". So far, the best dwarven culture source I've found is "[I]Forge and Hammer - the Secret Life of Dwarves[/I]" from Dragon #278 by Wolfgang Baur. Basically, I'm looking for this kind of info. If CBoD is a 3, this article is a 7, and I'm looking for a sourcebook that cranks it to 10. The Quinessential Dwarf apparently has a stronghold generator, so does the CBoD, so I'm not sure how they compare. The Quintessential Dwarf II is supposed to have a section/chapter on dwarven clans and random generator tables for creating dwarven societies. This sounds like it's more along the lines I'm looking for, but I haven't seen the book and haven't found any reviews. I can run with what I have and flesh out the parts I need to. I was hoping that sourcebooks were being developed that focused less on PC-tweaking and/or munchkin-making and more on role-playing. Unfortunately, I'm beginning to suspect that they don't exist... Thanks, Azgulor [/QUOTE]
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