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The Fall Of The Dwarves: What Races Do People Actually Play?
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<blockquote data-quote="Don Durito" data-source="post: 8151341" data-attributes="member: 6687260"><p>The problem with Dwarves is the whole of their appeal is based in their stereotypical beardy axy dwarfishness.</p><p></p><p>There's not a lot you can do with that really. You can make up new cultures of Dwarves who don't have beards, and use khopeshes rather then axes and are yak goat herders on the alti-plano etc - but if a player actually wants to play a Dwarf they're assuming beardy axiness. If you change them from that you're really basically going through the same process you would if you were removing a core race and adding something new in its place - which you can do - but if you are going to do that, it's worth asking whether there's any reason to base this new race around Dwarves at all.</p><p></p><p>There's the whole things of 'my Dwarves are different - they're steppe riding nomad horse archers' which to my mind just tends to provoke the thought "but why are your steppe riding nomad horse archers Dwarves?"</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Don Durito, post: 8151341, member: 6687260"] The problem with Dwarves is the whole of their appeal is based in their stereotypical beardy axy dwarfishness. There's not a lot you can do with that really. You can make up new cultures of Dwarves who don't have beards, and use khopeshes rather then axes and are yak goat herders on the alti-plano etc - but if a player actually wants to play a Dwarf they're assuming beardy axiness. If you change them from that you're really basically going through the same process you would if you were removing a core race and adding something new in its place - which you can do - but if you are going to do that, it's worth asking whether there's any reason to base this new race around Dwarves at all. There's the whole things of 'my Dwarves are different - they're steppe riding nomad horse archers' which to my mind just tends to provoke the thought "but why are your steppe riding nomad horse archers Dwarves?" [/QUOTE]
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