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<blockquote data-quote="MGibster" data-source="post: 8344801" data-attributes="member: 4534">Who said the dwarf wasn't sexy?&nbsp; In one of my Curse of Strahd campaigns a player had a woman dwarf and she made it a point to have a generously exposed decolletage. Strahd was quite enamored and was working on making her one of his &quot;brides.&quot;[ATTACH=full]140692[/ATTACH]I don't know why the popularity of the dwarf seems to have waned.&nbsp; Or even if it's waned.&nbsp; How much can we actually trust online surveys?&nbsp; (But if that's the only information we have...)&nbsp; I ran an all dwarf (non-D&amp;D) campaign once specifically because I needed the PCs to belong to a hidebound society and realize they needed to make changes in order to progress.&nbsp; And typically I use fantasy races as tools to tell a specific type of story.&nbsp; Which is why I've always had a problem with the sheer number of available PC races to choose from.&nbsp; In most D&amp;D games, I don't really care what race the PC selects because it's probably not going to make a difference in how the actual game is played.&nbsp; Bringing a dwarf or an elf to Curse of Strahd or Keep on the Borderlands and your experience won't be markedly different had you brought an elf or a human. But obviously it makes a difference otherwise we wouldn't be talking about how unpopular the dwarf is.It seems to me that in recent years the trend is to move away from making each race unique.&nbsp; Moving forward, ability score increases based on <s>race</s>, uh lineage, is gone. What does the dwarf actually bring to the table that players are interested in?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MGibster, post: 8344801, member: 4534"] Who said the dwarf wasn't sexy? In one of my [I]Curse of Strahd[/I] campaigns a player had a woman dwarf and she made it a point to have a generously exposed decolletage. Strahd was quite enamored and was working on making her one of his "brides." [ATTACH type="full" width="247px" alt="Look at those tiny feet!"]140692[/ATTACH] I don't know why the popularity of the dwarf seems to have waned. Or even if it's waned. How much can we actually trust online surveys? (But if that's the only information we have...) I ran an all dwarf (non-D&D) campaign once specifically because I needed the PCs to belong to a hidebound society and realize they needed to make changes in order to progress. And typically I use fantasy races as tools to tell a specific type of story. Which is why I've always had a problem with the sheer number of available PC races to choose from. In most D&D games, I don't really care what race the PC selects because it's probably not going to make a difference in how the actual game is played. Bringing a dwarf or an elf to [I]Curse of Strahd[/I] or [I]Keep on the Borderlands[/I] and your experience won't be markedly different had you brought an elf or a human. But obviously it makes a difference otherwise we wouldn't be talking about how unpopular the dwarf is. It seems to me that in recent years the trend is to move away from making each race unique. Moving forward, ability score increases based on [S]race[/S], uh lineage, is gone. What does the dwarf actually bring to the table that players are interested in? [/QUOTE]

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