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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wombat" data-source="post: 1581616" data-attributes="member: 8447">I can't speak for the others, obviously, but I never choose a race or a class based on mechanics.  Instead I go with what feels right at the moment.  That being said, I, like many others, got my first major taste of dwarves in The Hobbit.  As I was growing up, many of my friends read LotR and became elf-nuts; this only caused me to dig in my heels and become more of a dwarf-fanatic -- dwarves weren't moaning low all the time about how the world was doomed, win or lose.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />  I read through the book carefully to find the minor passages that mentioned the great wars going on around the Iron Hills where the dwarves were going out to fight goblins and the wainriders in force -- they were not hiding in their forests and playing Depeche Mode and Morrissey music!  (okay, okay, I am way exaggerating here, but give me comic lisence...)  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />In other words, I loved the dwarves for their tenacity, their ability to see beauty in stone and gem, and their loyalty.  So in rpgs, I tend to play humans most often, but after that I play dwarves.  They are often simple characters -- grab some armour, grab a heavyish weapon, and go forward to stomp goblin patootey!  But given that simplistic exterior, there is an awful lot of room to develop a character -- a touch of craftsmanship or alchemy, an interest in ancient books, a Porthos-type with a love of fine clothing and jewelry.  Consider me, in many ways, the anti-Tolkein -- because he so wanted to restore elves to their high place in literature, moving away from the Victorian flower-fairies, he ended up driving me towards the folk of earth and stone, the honourable dwarves.</blockquote>

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