How do you run an all dwarf campaign
>>97154762Not if the elf sold the mine to another dwarf before dying.
>>97154762Well, first thing you do is you actually learn how to play a TTRPG and then you get players, and then you tell them>I want to run a game where everyone plays a dwarf.
In Runequest, in the setting Glorantha.>Work crew #2856 is tasked with restoring power to dig shaft #41>Moderate Uz presence detected>Openhandist influence suspected>Acceptable casualties: 100%>Glory to Mostal The Maker>His Great Work shall be done.
>>97154776Racist-bros...
>>97154815That is a pretty big hurdle though.
>>97154762with nothing but dwarves
>>97154815>>97155141It's probably better to just learn the system, then hold some of your pre-existing friends hostage and TELL them that they are going to be roleplaying as dwarfs.Then you cock your shotgun and bolt the door for emphasis.
>>97154762>How do you run an all dwarf campaignBrutal dungeon crawl + political game about reclaiming a lost karak and dealing with god-awful inter-clan politics where your dumb fuck elders would rather settle grudges and pissing matches than deal with the thaggoraki and grobi and actually win for a god damn change.
>>97154762There are a lot of great dwarf campaigns but you wouldn't know them, they're underground.
Check out Races of Stone (the 3.5 splat)
>>97155410I smiled
>>97154762is it a good idea to use dwarf fortress for dungeon maps
>>97154762>Have players>They play dwarves
By staying low
>>97154762Have you tried just playing games?
>>97154762You start small, then go deeper.
>>97155141I didn't say it would be easy. I didn't even bring up the part where you have to run the game and come up with ideas.
>>97154762If you want to play a siege just say so bro.
>>971547621 Pick any adventure or campaign.2 Have all the players and NPCs be dwarves.3 Have all the monster encounters be either greenskins or elves.
>>97154762The mine is mine to mine!
Time to dig too greedily and too deep.
>>97159925>tunnel around itunironically why wouldn't this work in a real game?
>>97160074in osr it's possible but it takes so long and provokes a tide of wandering encounters, so you basically have to clear the whole place in the process of digging around a room
>>97154762First you have to find 3+ dwarf players. A tall order, given how antisocial and drama queeny most dwarf players are.
>>97160085>Somewhere in an Elvish wizard's study>He closes his barkscroll and asks himself>"Why can I hear Dwarf-tongue and mining songs through the floorboards?">He posts about it on his crystal ball>Wizard twitter calls him insane>Two weeks later, the tunnel is discovered
>>97154762I'd run a short campaign, with high goals and knee-high with problems to solve
>>97154762I'd worry about a gimmick like that getting old, so I'd keep it short and my expectations low.
>>97156811Greenskins, Elves other Dwarves and Gn*mes.
>>97160074Combination of how long it'd take and how much noise it'd raise. You'd be up to your armpits in wandering monsters. And that's assuming you have the skills, tools and materials to make a proper tunnel that won't collapse on you.
>>97160474>all dwarf campaign>nobody has the skills, tools and materials to make a proper tunnelngmi
>>97154762I wouldn't because dwarffags are insufferable. HURR I HATE ELVES BECAUSE THEY REMIND ME OF MORE ATTRACTIVE PEOPLE
>>97160673This would be hilarious. Modern DnD dwarf campaign, where all PCs are doing their darnest avoiding dwarf tropes, so nobody can navigate tunnels or swing an axe in a undeground campaign.
>>97154815that's the game I just joined. Only requirements were>play a dwarf>don't play a full time warriorTold the GM I was gonna play a dwarf ranger doing mountain ranger things (climbing, forestry, gathering, recon etc) and keeping in touch with the human villages around the hold. Most important part he's NOT going to have a shitty scottish accent
>>97154762Unironically:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34CZjsEI1yU
>>97160997>redditslopYou're not wrong.
>>97154762dig a hole, curse the elves, siege a fortress, fortify for a siege, plant a sign that says "Dead Elgi Storage," drink the ale, argue with each other, establish a central bank and hoard gold. just dwarf things
>>97160894Ah, a Welshman.
>>97154762You run a campaign and everyone's a dwarf.
>>971547621) Tell players it's an all-dwarf campaign2) They all make dwarves3) I run the campaignI know, rocket science
>>97154762The obvious answer is, underground.
>>97154762Into the ground
>>97162004Yeah but who has a good basement to run games in with there friends at there houses anymore?
An adventure about reclaiming a hold long ago lost to the forces of darknessThe players have the choice along the way to either gather allies to help them along the way or stubbornly choose to go it alone due to ancient grudges against the other racesOf course, going it alone truly only ensures a mighty doom for the party, for the darkness of that fallen hold has grown terrible in its long occupation, and knows the heart and soul of Dwarfs too well to fall to them alone
XP rewards for elf deaths and solely for elf deaths, advanced play ties exact XP totals to the KEYS matrix (Knife Ear Years Stolen)
Set the entire thing underground and you're off on a grand quest to discover LOCATION/ANCIENT MCGUFFIN/DEFEAT IMMINENT FOE/FUCK AROUND AND MAKE MONEY.
think of a joke you find funny. write it on a sheet of paper.every now and then, pick up that piece of paper, and read the joke.gets you the same effect, OP.
>>97154762>Have a group that isn’t full of attention seeking faggots.>Boot grid-loving faggots from the table and stick to theater of the mind.>make it haunted mine delving horror meat grinder or a road scouting exploration game.Also, never forget: it is impossible to refute the fact that dwarves are logically most like ancient Peruvian mountain civilizations in their cultures. Wooly quadrupeds would make most of their meat and clothing supply and they would have an elaborate and beautiful system of interlinking highways going over the mountains to connect temples and strongholds of wondrous architectural achievement. And it is retarded to suggest they would live underground when the surface is not only quite safe and preferable to such conditions but infinitely more practical for farming, herding, cooking, refining, etc. you dig down to mine, and a few structures may be put in place to support that purpose, and little else.
>>97160894Aye, a good lad from Isle of Man, he.
Start by making a dwarfy setting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc9HTXXtPsc
Played an all dwarf party. Was pretty beardy and fun. We had a cleric, fighter, barbarian and ranger. The fighters favourite thing to do was cannonball off high points into monsters. The barbarian was channelling Gotrek. Big axe and slaying monsters.Wizard and ranger were more level headed. The elves attacked our kingdom destroying our clan completely and we set out on a quest for revenge. We all carried a tower shield too. Dwarf shield wall was fun
>>97159562This sounds fun.I want to do it.Hit stuff and loot.Hit stuff and loot!All underground.
be as contentious as possible
>>97154762You make it short
>>97154762>sir, your mine was impounded for unpaid taxes and aggravated use of a Scottish accent.
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>>97154776No true son of the mountain would screw his fellow Dwarf out of his rightful property.He'd offer to let the Dwarf buy back his mine using proceeds from said mine and then go into partnership afterwards
>>97171379The mine was promised to me 3000 years ago.
>>97154776>buying back rightful dwarven property>buying back rightful dwarven property from an elf>buying back rightful dwarven property from an elf THAT WAS STOLEN BY THAT VERY ELF
