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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 8190638" data-attributes="member: 6801228">I was asked how dwarves could possibly have fires for their forges and breath while underground. The answer (in part) is that they are master stonecrafters.Are other races capable of crafting stone? Yes, but dwarves are usually the best. Can you have a non-dwarf who is a better stonecrafter? Yes, and they would be incredibly exceptional.So I asked, if Halflings are able to hide entire villages, a skill no one else exhibits, and they do it with no magic and only through skill, because I was being accused of "man at the gym fallacy" for allowing magic to work, then what skills are those? What is it that halflings can build and use that no other race can match, in general?Your response was "other crafts"Well, everyone has "other crafts" it isn't like dwarves are the only blacksmiths in the world. And dwarves have chefs and carptenters too.But, no other race can hide an entire village from sight with mundane means, so what halfling skills are we talking about? Generic skills that every race has? Then every race can hide their villages.Except, you also want to take it one step further. The real answer is magic, via Divine Intervention. It is literally because the Gods will it so. Oh wow! Halflings can BAKE!Well, clearly their skill at baking and making shoes and knitting clothes is what allows them to hide entire villages. So, how does that work? How does their skill at shoe-making allow them to blend their village into the scenery and go undetected.And... hmm, humans and elves and dwarves can also bake, cobble and knit. So, they should all be able to hide their villages too, perfectly blending into their surroundings and avoiding detection.So, why don't they?Actually, it was literally what I was demanded of by Gammadoodler, right here is a good spot for thatSo, [USER=6914290]@Gammadoodler[/USER] , bad news, you are literally no one, because in trying to address your points I was really engaging in a Strawman.</blockquote>

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