Edena_of_Neith said:
There were 150 votes on the Elven Poll.
This poll has only 48 votes so far.
That, in itself, tends to indicate to me that dwarves are less interesting to players in general, and such has been my impression for a long time.
However, this poll deserves a chance, and without more input (Number Five alive!) it won't be relevant.
How long was the other poll active before it reached 150 votes? At the time of your post, this one had been active for just over a day. You mjight want to give the poll more time before you declare Dwarves less popular than elves.
Was the other poll posted on a Friday? The boards tend to have fewer visitors on the weekends, or so Morrus has told us.
As far as the actual poll question: I didn't answer it. I agree with Enforcer in that I don't equate alignment with how social or anti-social an individual or group behaves. Nor do I equate it with self-esteem which is what is suggested by the poll options.
I see Dwarves as predominantly Lawful Neutral. Typically they have been portrayed as a race with a strict class system--a society based on rigidly defined clans, or something similar. They tend to focus on methodical professions (like armourers/smiths, stoneworkers/masons, etc) with a much lesser focus on the abstract or artistic side. This represents the Lawful component quite well, I think.
In terms of the Good vs. Evil axis, I see them as strongly Neutral, with slight Good tendencies. Dwarves are mostly insular and xenophobic. I don't see them as having much interest in larger issues such as Good and Evil until that Evil comes knocking on their door.
A good example of this would be the Dragonlance Dwarves. Insular and issolationist by choice, they didn't act to fight the evil that plagued the world until that evil directly affected them--and even then they mostly acted without any sense of cooperation with the other "Goodly" races.
YMMV, or course.
