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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 5172108" data-attributes="member: 58197">All of the following answers are my "stock answers" for these questions, in my campaigns, unless otherwise specified:Orcs are not craftsmen, and on their own they manufacture only primitive and poorly made gear using Stone Age technology. Their metal armor and weapons are either plundered from defeated foes, or made by slaves of other races.Goblins, unlike orcs, are quite good at manufacturing and practice it extensively. When possible, they establish their nests in proximity to an ore vein, and smelt and forge their own gear. If that isn't an option, they steal the raw materials from other races. They are not above using scavenged gear, but will melt it down and re-forge it if it isn't suitable to their needs.Depends on  the giant, but as a rule they make their own. Raw materials are obtained through mining, trading with other races, or raiding. Giant societies bear a strong resemblance to human clans and tribes.Devils and angels have extensive civilizations mirroring human ones; they obtain raw materials and manufacture their gear in much the way humans do.Demons seldom use weapons or armor. On the rare occasion that they do (e.g., a balor's whip and sword), each demon creates its own gear out of raw elemental chaos. Such creations are very unstable, apt to explode or disintegrate when the demon stops paying attention.Orcs: No, no, and no.Goblins: Yes, no, and sorta (a goblin nest can contain thousands of goblins, but isn't really a city in the usual sense).Giants: Yes, no, and sorta (some giants have settlements resembling human towns, but too few inhabitants to be properly called cities).Angels: Yes, no, and yes.Devils: Yes, yes, and yes.Demons: No, no, and sorta (there are places in the Abyss that resemble cities, and demons often congregate in large numbers in such places, but the demons don't build the cities, nor do they behave like city-dwellers).</blockquote>

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