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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JDJarvis" data-source="post: 1643569" data-attributes="member: 18640">Pretty much. sometimes they are more technologically apt then other folks but most dwarves PCs could be moved from game sytem to game system without a horrible degree of change to thier basic nature regardless of differences in stats. In Runequest 2nd edtion they were all from one common culture and I don' think there were any female dwarves and they were alien in mind set compared to men but not terribly different from sterotypical dwarves really.All games don't have orcs. But those that do often use them the same way unless they are trying to be different to look unique. In the Fantasy Trip (proto-GURPS) Orcs are just as capable as humans individually but the culture is harsher then that of men and they cooperate poorly in large numbers. In HARN orcs are anasty brutish race smaller then men on the average that have a very different physiology and society from men, thier culture is sort of ant-like.In settings where orcs are pretty much just people I often wonder why the heck they aren't simply humans with a different culture in that setting.Most of the time.Hallfing don't always turn up but when they do they tend to be more like hobbits then they are like kender.Gnomes as a PC race turn up far less often then halflings in other game systems from what I've noticed. gnomes do turn up here and there as a form of earth elemental.</blockquote>