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<blockquote data-quote="Faolyn" data-source="post: 8802612" data-attributes="member: 6915329">Plenty of humans are serious, honest, and gruff while still being charismatic. And apparently, no dwarf could ever be as good a musician as a human, as intimidating as a human, or as persuasive as a human because all dwarfs are serious, honest, and gruff. It must be absolutely exhausting to be a friendly and cheerful dwarf, since they have to force themselves to act in that way. They must be like the opposite of a person with ASD, where instead of masking to appear normal they have to mask to appear abnormal.OR! It could be that people don't want to pigeonhole entire races as being gruff and surly. It's lazy to write it so that every member of any one race will have the exact same type of personality. Not even every member of a breed of animals that's been specifically bred to have a single temperament will actually have that temperament. With a self-aware, fully-sapient race? Heck no. The idea is ridiculous, and it's even more ridiculous to say &quot;since dwarfs are surly, they get a penalty to a stat that's only tangentally related to surliness and will penalize them in things that have nothing to do with surliness.&quot;If all you can &quot;really hear&quot; is that people are complaining about their character, maybe you need to listen a bit more.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Faolyn, post: 8802612, member: 6915329"] Plenty of humans are serious, honest, and gruff while still being charismatic. And apparently, no dwarf could ever be as good a musician as a human, as intimidating as a human, or as persuasive as a human because all dwarfs are serious, honest, and gruff. It must be absolutely [I]exhausting [/I]to be a friendly and cheerful dwarf, since they have to force themselves to act in that way. They must be like the opposite of a person with ASD, where instead of masking to appear normal they have to mask to appear abnormal. OR! It could be that people don't want to pigeonhole [I]entire races [/I]as being gruff and surly. It's [I]lazy [/I]to write it so that every member of any one race will have the exact same type of personality. Not even every member of a breed of animals that's been specifically bred to have a single temperament will actually have that temperament. With a self-aware, fully-sapient race? Heck no. The idea is ridiculous, and it's even more ridiculous to say "since dwarfs are surly, they get a penalty to a stat that's only tangentally related to surliness and will penalize them in things that have nothing to do with surliness." If all you can "really hear" is that people are complaining about their character, maybe you need to listen a bit more. [/QUOTE]

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