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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 8114879" data-attributes="member: 23751">Ouch!  That sucks.  I've been there and it isn't a happy place.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />There is.  Despite the claim that the core setting is FR, there is really almost nothing FR about the PHB, DMG and MM.  It's like the silly claim that Greyhawk was the 3e core setting. The PHB Dwarves are designed to be dropped into whatever setting people want, or to be changed to conform to other settings.  The Sword Coast altered the PHB Dwarf fluff to conform to that setting.  Where it differs from the PHB is where specific beats general.Yes, Hill Dwarves "keen senses, deep intuition..." is why as a subrace they get +1 to wisdom.  Mountain Dwarves as a subrace are NOT like that, so they do not get +1 to wisdom.  As you not, though, an individual Mountain Dwarf could be born with keen senses and deep intuition, and that would be reflected by rolling/buying a high wisdom. It does not specifically state where they live, but the name pretty clearly implies hills for Hill Dwarves and mountains for Mountain Dwarves.  Hills can also be found without any mountains around.  If you look at real world cultures, there are varying cultures just a few miles away from each other.  If you go further into dwellers of different terrain types, the cultural differences are profound.  That one type of dwarf would leave the mountains and go live elsewhere with a different focus on life, to the extent that they develop different racial abilities, means that they have a significantly different culture. The PHB tells us that they are different.  The get very different racial abilities, which means that they cannot possibly be the same.  In fact, it goes out of the way to tell us which abilities both get for their similarities and then goes into their differences.It is not a contradiction.  I've already shown how what you call contradiction can be easily reconciled together.  Even there was a contradiction, 1) specific beats general, so the Gold Dwarf lore wins, and 2) the Gold Dwarf lore also has aspects that justify the +1 wisdom in a different way.So you can be both suspicious and optimistic.  I am what you would call an optimistic realist, just like those dwarves.  I am realistic and understand that basic human nature will almost always result in X, but despite my suspicions and distrust of that nature, I still optimistically hold out hope that this might be one of the exceptions.  Again, what you are looking at as in opposition is not really in opposition at all.That just made me chuckle as well.  However, the mix-up was due to rushing early in the morning right after I woke up and before I had to do my morning chores and head to work. <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=";)" /></blockquote>

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