Dwarves can never ever be serious protagonists. Dwarves are made to be comic relief. Any time a dwarf player tries to act seriously, you should pull up Short People by Randy Newman.
>>98330828>OP instantly posts an image that proves him wrongHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Yup, which is why dwarf players are always the best players>No main character fag shit>Steadfast and reliable to the party>Good for a bit>Always engages with the setting and world around them since RP'ing dwarves is ez
I AM A DWARF AND I'M DIGGING A HOLE
>>98330853>>98330836>>98330947>>98330990
>>98330828You sound tossed.
>>98331007>HAHAHA I'm OP and I'm being retarded on purpose!!!
>>98330828Amazing. OP really is always a fag, huh?
>>98330828Nice try, Randy. Pump up your royalties elsewhere!
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>>98330828Seems like a skill issue on insincere writers. Tolkien didn't have any problem making a book with 13 dwarves as protagonists.
>>98330828Dwarves can be protagonists...Elves can be protagonists...Hobbits can be protagonists...Hell even Orcs can be protagonists...Gnomes, however.
>>98333602Don't make me say it.
>>98330828>Dwarves are made to be comic reliefWhat about Duergar or other grittier takes on dwarves
>>98333602>gnomes>No, lass, I’m not hurt and the limp is not new. I’ve had it as long as you’ve known me. 'Tis a wooden leg you see. I was smuggling crackers into Waterdeep several years back. The Council had outlawed them due to near constant cracker-related debauchery, you see... I couldn’t let THAT pass. The Council had sealed off all ports and mobilized the army to stop all cracker entry. The city was shut down, martial law was declared and people huddled in their homes for fear and want of crackers. I could not stand idly by while such persecution was visited on the somewhat innocent peoples of Waterdeep. So I smuggled crackers. Salted, unsalted, and herb-riddled alike, it mattered not. All came in and all were consumed in secret orgies of cracker-related tomfoolery. Then came the unpleasant business with the hanging. I hadn’t seen Picklefeather’s eyes bulge like that since that Wyvern kicked him in the ba... (Oops! Innocent elvish lass, have to watch the tongue) uh... in the arm. (Yes, that will do.) The moral of the story is, you reap what you sow. I still own a warehouse full of saltines. I send a box each year to all my friends. Seem to have fewer friends each year as a result, but that's to be expected.>What does that have to do with your wooden leg?>What wooden leg? I have no wooden leg.
>>98330828I disagree.
>>98330828>protagonistMotherfucker this is /tg/ not /lit/
>>98333664This is cringe bullshit that justifies total stuntie death.You see, Gnomes are the product of polygamy, incestuous breeding, and coprophilia. It is no exaggeration, nor hyperbole, that all evils of the world are endorsed and committed by gnomes. A gnome feels no empathy, nor remorse---no common humanity that separates us from simple beasts. The only "love" a gnome can feel, if you dare describe it so, is that for money. A gnome would sooner sell his own mother for a pouch of silvers than do a single good deed in his entire gaping hole of an existence.
>>98334262Gary Stu of Clan OcDonutSteel, I see.
>>98333664The game was really ahead of its time, it introduced millennial writing before any millennials entered the workforce.
I dunno I quite enjoyed The Dwarves
>>98333664>>98334426I ran a Gnome Barbarian through Curse of Strahd.He was an ex accountant with 14 int, who went postal from workplace politics, murdered the entire office with a chair, and ran off naked into the woods.He met the party by tailing them with the intention of robbing them later.Which he did, as soon as the campaign ended.He also manfought a Vrock solo, on a random break-in that turned into a hyper-violent solo adventure speedrun, where he brutalized the house-staff to little avail, and ended up throwing himself through a third story window whilst berserking to absorb the damage, and rescued two different children on two separate occasions, and was a voluntary living projectile for the party ranger, polymorphed into Giant Ape form, to use as a missile to close the gap on squishy wizards.Rode off on a chariot with the Druid pulling it in Horse form, taking all the large denomination coins and choice treasures from Strahd's treasury, leaving the rest of the party with little more than copper coins and chamber fittings to pawn.Retired him on the spot to actually pay child support and continue to spawn more illegitimate offspring.
>>98330828... ok?I think you got lost on your way to >>>/lit/ or >>>/tv/
>>98339208My post wasn't an invitation for you to post your cringe gay fanfiction, anon.I don't want to hear about your homo exploits.
I like dorfs.
What would be the ideal weapons for dwarves and tunnel fighting?
>>98333664HA HA HA WELL MEMED MY FRIENDHAVE A REDDIT GOLD
>>98343821You've seen pike and shot, now get ready for spear and flamethrower.
>>98333664>teehee crackers so randumb>>98339208>man i hate my job also teehee naked short manNot beating the comic relief allegations
>>98344987Zero intention of trying my man.That's how I flew under the radar long enough to rob everybody.
>>98343821I remain convinced that standard dwarven culture should be Roman-inspired rather than Viking-adjacent. >Beards and long hair are a serious hazard when mining, smithing or fighting.>Tight, disciplined, defensive formations of armored soldiers that soften up targets using top-tier javelins, siege engines, battlefield modification and superior tactics before moving to stabbing and chopping up people with short swords make more sense for tunnel fighting than berserker charges with axes (who need more space to be used efficiently, making them a liability in this specific battlefield).>Romans, just like dwarves, are known to be master engineers.>Romans had navies, but culturally disliked seamanship and preferred to fight and travel on land, building extensive and logistically efficient road networks, generally reshaping the land to suit their needs whenever applicable. Vikings love the sea, love their drakkars, and wouldn't be caught dead building roads. Which of these two mindsets is more similar to the standard dwarven one?>A true Roman had to be stoic, dignified, family-oriented, traditionalist and hard-working, all virtues that standard dwarves embody. A true Viking was the most successful and fearsome raider.Tolkien really made a lot of choices that make no sense when creating standard dwarven culture, and nobody wants to admit it.
>>98330828I don’t put dwarves in my campaigns. Homebrew is that the lady of pain hates them so much she kills them on sight.
