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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Herr der Qual" data-source="post: 6531501" data-attributes="member: 6789144">I've dealt with the Dwarven races this way:Mountain Dwarves: Large cities are built the same way as citadel cities, instead of a walled city they build the city inside a mountain the farm and pasture lands are outside the gates to the mountain keep. They have large areas underneath the city in the mines that have been stripped of all minerals that have been converted to makeshift temporary pastures for times of war. The pastures are stocked with goats, sheep, pigs and other ovines. The lowest class of dwarves live outside the the gates of the city and tend the livestock and fields. They actively patrol the areas outside of their mountain home, and the patrols bring back game frequently. In rich Mountain Dwarf cities, they have magnificent large crystals perfectly shaped into spheres and imbued with daylight spells that mimic the day night cycle of the surface, in these magically lit areas they've planted pastures of grass and trees making subterranean parks that can serve as pastureland in emergencies, in a magnificently wealthy city they would have a similar system that contains subterranean fields where they grow crops and rear livestock. In poorer communities, they have animals of the underdark that have been domesticated for consumption, kept deep below the city in pens in abandoned mines (I have a few homebrew creatures that I made that serve as common fodder in the underdark), they keep patrols on watch to keep at bay the predators of the underdark.The Hill Dwarves in my settings actually live in communities very much like the Shire in Peter Jackson's LoTR and Hobbit movies, but they fortify their settlements with impossibly well built and beautifully decorated and deviously deadly stone walls, they eat larger livestock like cows and aurochs. They utilize aqueducts (as do the Mountain Dwarves) to bring their water from nearby freshwater sources. They take a note from the Mountain Dwarves and keep a large stockpile under the community.So, their diets vary a little bit, but the crux of it, in my setting they utilize everything in their environment to ensure they have the kind of foods they have come to live by. Hearty meats and vegetables are the staples of the dwarven diet through my understanding.The Duergar survive in their most wealthy settlements the way the poorest mountain dwarves do, the poorest duergar scrounge and survive like gully dwarves, whose way of life is well explained in some other materials.Both the Mountain and Hill Dwarves both happily trade some of their well crafted materials (but never their best, those are hoarded and passed down across generations) for exotic or rare meats.</blockquote>

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