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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 8687969" data-attributes="member: 4937">Think about a culture where your family, community, and national identity are often much more important than your personal identity - say South Korea.&nbsp; Now go a little bit more extreme than that.&nbsp; Dwarves lean into the group hard.&nbsp; They need community as much as they need food and drink.Dwarves are half romantic knight-errant and half work-obsessed merchant.&nbsp; Although I greatly respect the insight that dwarfs are dogs and elves are cats, if you model Dwarf culture after an animal, they'd be sentient naked mole rats.&nbsp; I think it's best to play dwarves as if they were immune or almost immune to many of the vices that plague humans but having a few vices that go far beyond what is common in humans and the bad ones lean hard into those vices - greed, grudges, and obsession being common drawf problems.&nbsp; They also have a bit of inappropriate hyperfocus that can be disconcerting to anyone but their own kind, especially when it manifests itself communally.&nbsp; Dwarves are gruff because other dwarves are generally so compassionate and friendly that they don't need to exercise a lot of tact or sophisticated social strategies to get along.&nbsp; Everyone could be yelling at each other such that it sounds like an argument is going on, but everyone (at least everyone who is a dwarf) could be perfectly at ease.However, on top of that, most dwarves that non-dwarves would actually meet are typically the weird ones (by dwarf standards).&nbsp; Afterall, normal dwarves are thoroughly engrossed in their own community and culture and have little time for dealing with anyone else unless it's business.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 8687969, member: 4937"] Think about a culture where your family, community, and national identity are often much more important than your personal identity - say South Korea. Now go a little bit more extreme than that. Dwarves lean into the group hard. They need community as much as they need food and drink. Dwarves are half romantic knight-errant and half work-obsessed merchant. Although I greatly respect the insight that dwarfs are dogs and elves are cats, if you model Dwarf culture after an animal, they'd be sentient naked mole rats. I think it's best to play dwarves as if they were immune or almost immune to many of the vices that plague humans but having a few vices that go far beyond what is common in humans and the bad ones lean hard into those vices - greed, grudges, and obsession being common drawf problems. They also have a bit of inappropriate hyperfocus that can be disconcerting to anyone but their own kind, especially when it manifests itself communally. Dwarves are gruff because other dwarves are generally so compassionate and friendly that they don't need to exercise a lot of tact or sophisticated social strategies to get along. Everyone could be yelling at each other such that it sounds like an argument is going on, but everyone (at least everyone who is a dwarf) could be perfectly at ease. However, on top of that, most dwarves that non-dwarves would actually meet are typically the weird ones (by dwarf standards). Afterall, normal dwarves are thoroughly engrossed in their own community and culture and have little time for dealing with anyone else unless it's business. [/QUOTE]

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