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<blockquote data-quote="Mercurius" data-source="post: 8028311" data-attributes="member: 59082"><p>Thanks for the clarifying response, [USER=6801228]@Chaosmancer[/USER] - I have a better grasp as to your position, I think. I have literally not once taken a bit of canon and left it un-tweaked, so this sort of thing doesn't bother me. I take the basic idea and adapt it to my campaign world. Or not.</p><p></p><p>I don't think I did anything with the duergar in my last active campaign setting, but if I were I'd probably go with the "dirty dwarven secret" angle and build it up from there. I've always imagined mountain dwarves as somewhat rigid, xenophobic and even puritanical, looking down on hill dwarves and shunning duergar; more LN, with shades of LG (I can imagine an order within their society, perhaps revering Berronar, who seek reunification with the duergar). I'd probably keep the duergar as mostly evil, but on the LE-LN spectrum, with some justification as they were shut out of dwarven society and twisted by mind flayer influence. Broken, in a way. Maybe hill dwarves were turned off by what the mountain dwarves did and separated; I've always seem them as less xenophobic and more friendly to non-dwarves. Maybe they have have a tenuous truce with the duergar. Just riffing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mercurius, post: 8028311, member: 59082"] Thanks for the clarifying response, [USER=6801228]@Chaosmancer[/USER] - I have a better grasp as to your position, I think. I have literally not once taken a bit of canon and left it un-tweaked, so this sort of thing doesn't bother me. I take the basic idea and adapt it to my campaign world. Or not. I don't think I did anything with the duergar in my last active campaign setting, but if I were I'd probably go with the "dirty dwarven secret" angle and build it up from there. I've always imagined mountain dwarves as somewhat rigid, xenophobic and even puritanical, looking down on hill dwarves and shunning duergar; more LN, with shades of LG (I can imagine an order within their society, perhaps revering Berronar, who seek reunification with the duergar). I'd probably keep the duergar as mostly evil, but on the LE-LN spectrum, with some justification as they were shut out of dwarven society and twisted by mind flayer influence. Broken, in a way. Maybe hill dwarves were turned off by what the mountain dwarves did and separated; I've always seem them as less xenophobic and more friendly to non-dwarves. Maybe they have have a tenuous truce with the duergar. Just riffing. [/QUOTE]
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