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<blockquote data-quote="Old Fezziwig" data-source="post: 1819529" data-attributes="member: 59">The hill dwarves in my homebrew are a dislocated people, forced out of their mountain homes into a large, heavily wooded swamp by a legion of demons and undead.&nbsp; Since then, they've become a water/river folk people, ferrying people through the swamp on flat-bottomed skiffs.&nbsp; Naturally, this means that most of the typical dwarfy skills have been replaced by ones more inclined towards operating boats and living in a swamp (stonecunning became swampcunning, which allows the dwarves to gauge depth of water and spot natural hazards on the waterways, instead of a bonus to Appraise for metal items, they get a bonus on, IIRC, Rope Use).&nbsp; As I think about it more, I'm beginning to think they might work as bounty hunters, too, with some skills similar to the thief-takers in the Wheel of Time.&nbsp; Of course, even given this, they still have the same personality (dour, grim, serious, and orderly), although for different reasons.There might be subraces of dwarves present, but I never got near that issue in the one PbP I ran in the world, and now I'm thinking that it might just be one subrace (the mountain dwarves and duergar would be the same thing, likely).Nick</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Old Fezziwig, post: 1819529, member: 59"] The hill dwarves in my homebrew are a dislocated people, forced out of their mountain homes into a large, heavily wooded swamp by a legion of demons and undead. Since then, they've become a water/river folk people, ferrying people through the swamp on flat-bottomed skiffs. Naturally, this means that most of the typical dwarfy skills have been replaced by ones more inclined towards operating boats and living in a swamp (stonecunning became swampcunning, which allows the dwarves to gauge depth of water and spot natural hazards on the waterways, instead of a bonus to Appraise for metal items, they get a bonus on, IIRC, Rope Use). As I think about it more, I'm beginning to think they might work as bounty hunters, too, with some skills similar to the thief-takers in the Wheel of Time. Of course, even given this, they still have the same personality (dour, grim, serious, and orderly), although for different reasons. There might be subraces of dwarves present, but I never got near that issue in the one PbP I ran in the world, and now I'm thinking that it might just be one subrace (the mountain dwarves and duergar would be the same thing, likely). Nick [/QUOTE]

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