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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 1749396" data-attributes="member: 177">Hm.  I'm not sure this is something necessarily "wrong" with them.  Here's a few different ways to think about it...Over all of the real world, there's a lot of variations in human culture.  If you are treating your non-humans simply as "humans with pointy ears and short stocky humans" then yes, you'd expect to see more variations in the non-humans as well.Personally, I approach it differently.  Instead of assuming that the non-humans are like the humans, I look at what the book says about the non-humans, and try to figure out what that means.To me, it means that the differences between humans and non-humans are more than cultural.  There's real, physical differences.  So it isn't necessarily right to assume that dwarves should have as much culturtal diversity as humans, because they aren't humans.  They are fundamentally different, and that difference may dictate some facts about their cultures.Another way to think about it - when you look at our entire planet, it seems like there's lots of variations.  But maybe not as many as you think.  Biolgically, there's more varation among dogs and chimpanzees than there is among humans.  And the very basic desires of all humans, world over, are roughly the same.  There's a few variations in how they get expressed, but the basic drives are the same everywhere.  So, assume for a moment that non-humans have a subtly different set of basic drives.  All dwarves are from underground because subterranean living is one of their basic drives.  Also, try this as a suggeston - it only seems that the non-humans are less diverse, but we are suffering from "you know them, they all look alike" syndrome.  As humans, we recognize the differences between humans and their cultures.  But when presented with non-humans, we get stuck on the pointy ears, and overlook the differences that they think are important.</blockquote>

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