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<blockquote data-quote="rmcoen" data-source="post: 8696119" data-attributes="member: 6692404"><p>Dwarves are the miners and smiths of my world(s), including goldsmiths and silversmiths. They excel at engineering on a grand scale.</p><p>Gnomes, on the other hand, are the jewelers and technologists. They excel at the minute and the intricate. They are the alchemists and artificers. (Additionally, the dwarves are too tradition-focused to experiment with technology and science and ideas that haven't been around for 400 years already.)</p><p></p><p>Dwarves make stone golems. Gnomes makes clockwerks (robots). Dwarves create stoneplate, a flexible form of marble armor, made only for the strongest among them, and royalty. Gnomes make, well, everything else alchemical - fire, lightning, cold, poison, fuses, bombs, potions, ointments and unguents, etc. The dwarves and the gnomes actually have a very profitable mutual trade system - gnomish gems for the jewelry, and alchemical items for mining and stoneplate, in exchange for dwarven metalsmithing of special alloys and precision gears, sturdy construction work and armor plate for the clockwerks, and so on.</p><p></p><p>No hate for the gnomes, but quite a bit of pigeonholing. Last two gnome PCs were Artificers (a Battlesmith, and an Artillerist). "Polite society" isn't super-fond of having "mad scientist" around, but they love the goods and creations!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rmcoen, post: 8696119, member: 6692404"] Dwarves are the miners and smiths of my world(s), including goldsmiths and silversmiths. They excel at engineering on a grand scale. Gnomes, on the other hand, are the jewelers and technologists. They excel at the minute and the intricate. They are the alchemists and artificers. (Additionally, the dwarves are too tradition-focused to experiment with technology and science and ideas that haven't been around for 400 years already.) Dwarves make stone golems. Gnomes makes clockwerks (robots). Dwarves create stoneplate, a flexible form of marble armor, made only for the strongest among them, and royalty. Gnomes make, well, everything else alchemical - fire, lightning, cold, poison, fuses, bombs, potions, ointments and unguents, etc. The dwarves and the gnomes actually have a very profitable mutual trade system - gnomish gems for the jewelry, and alchemical items for mining and stoneplate, in exchange for dwarven metalsmithing of special alloys and precision gears, sturdy construction work and armor plate for the clockwerks, and so on. No hate for the gnomes, but quite a bit of pigeonholing. Last two gnome PCs were Artificers (a Battlesmith, and an Artillerist). "Polite society" isn't super-fond of having "mad scientist" around, but they love the goods and creations! [/QUOTE]
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