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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Johnny Angel" data-source="post: 1712031" data-attributes="member: 13334">I've only gotten to skim this in the store, and one thing that I couldn't find any account of what I consider the most important thing they should have included.  I never hear of dwarves eating fungus, which is the closest thing to vegetation you can grow underground.  They are depicted on one page as eating something with drumsticks, but what kind of creatures are these?  There is no mention of dwarven farming, yet dwarves are renowned for their love of ale.  Where are they getting the barley to make that ale?  What's more, the book depicts wooden shields, wooden doors, wooden-hafted weapons.  Near as I can tell, Dwarves are entirely dependant on trade with other races just to have something to eat.  That's fine, of course.  But it does make a big difference in how we read dwarves.  For one thing, they cannot bow out of human affairs.  Even if we suppose that most dwarves never venture out of their tunnels, their livlihoods are intimately tied up with the affairs of humans (because, in fact, who else in D&D actually operates farms?).  If humans war against eachother, they need all the goods they can produce to wage those wars -- including the monies produced from dwarven mining.  Those humans are not going to like the dwarves dealing with both sides, and dwarven societies can fall under internal strife over what side to support. That's a sample of the kinds of issues that can arise from just the question of agriculture.  It does not appear to be dealt with in the book, and it's the question about dwarves I think is most important to answer.</blockquote>

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