Dwarves don't sell novels

[pogre]

Warhammer artists seem to have a dwarf-look that appeals to enough fans. If WotC artists could draw halflings and dwarves "cool" then... maybe the marketers conventional wisdom wouldn't be.

I blame Blanchitsu!

 

[Infernal Teddy]

Funnily enough, dwarves sell rather well here in germany...

 

[Ogrork the Mighty]

It's nothing new. Most people don't want to play halflings or dwarves in D&D either. Thus, partly, the reason for buffing dwarves up in 3.5.

 

[Dragonbait]

It's nothing new. Most people don't want to play halflings or dwarves in D&D either. Thus, partly, the reason for buffing dwarves up in 3.5.

All the groups I played with and GMed for must be oddballs. I rarely ever see an elf, but there will be humans, and *at least* one dwarf or halfling. In addition, there is always the 1 "oddity", typically (but not always) the big guys, like orcs, warforged, goliaths, half-orcs, kobolds, and so on.

Funnily enough, dwarves sell rather well here in germany...

For some reason, I am not surprised by this. I don't know why, and I'm not craking a joke about Germans or anything.

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

Of course dwarves don't sell novels. None of them get a bonus to Profession (Bookseller). They might sell them if they were written on stone tablets, but no one has enough space in their library for a stone tablet-based novel.

Gnomes and half-elf bards, on the other hand, are just the sorts of poofs to put ranks in Profession (Bookseller).

 

[Len]

Of course dwarves don't sell novels. None of them get a bonus to Profession (Bookseller). They might sell them if they were written on stone tablets, but no one has enough space in their library for a stone tablet-based novel.

Except that dwarves don't read novels either.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Hmm, Germans liking hard-working, hard-playing, hard-drinking, order-loving dwarves ... nope, can't see any reason why that would be so.

 

[Wik]

All the groups I played with and GMed for must be oddballs. I rarely ever see an elf, but there will be humans, and *at least* one dwarf or halfling. In addition, there is always the 1 "oddity", typically (but not always) the big guys, like orcs, warforged, goliaths, half-orcs, kobolds, and so on.


For some reason, I am not surprised by this. I don't know why, and I'm not craking a joke about Germans or anything.

You know, my group's exactly the same. Since 3e started, I don't think I've seen a single elf in our group. I know we've seen a bunch of dwarves (I've played more than a few myself), a bunch of halflings... and more than a few "oddballs" (typically hobgoblin or kobold).

Elves suck, plain and simple.

 

[Land Outcast]

What ye talkin' 'bout? Pansy elves gettin' all the attention? Nay, no way.

Fer me, I result a hardcore dwarven supporter.

All hail the Soul Forger!

Sincerely, always prefered dwarves.
Dwarven Thanes and Patriarchs all the way before elven Lords.

Specially in Dragonlance novels... that was where my love for dwarves was born (I read LotR at a later stage in my life)

[grumble]
perfumed beardless clanless pompous dainty girly willow-waisted poetry-reading ballet-dancing tree-climbing hanky-waving lily-livered sissies who get us from getting the covers...
[/grumble]

 

[InVinoVeritas]

'you can get away with elves because they're sexy, but not matter how cool the book is, if you put a dwarf or a halfling on the cover, sales drop'

*blink*

Halflings? Not sexy? Not even slinky, leather-clad, got-that-petite-hot-thing-going Lidda?

Someone's still thinking of hairfeet. Disappointing, really.

Done correctly, all the races are sexy. I can even think of sexy gnomes and half-orcs I've seen. Someone in the novel department needs to see more art.