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Sept 30, 2004 9:59:55 GMT -5
Post by Louise Karczmarz on Sept 30, 2004 9:59:55 GMT -5
I doubt I am in the minority. The cave dwelling, miner with women who are as hairy as the men.... obsessed by acquiring wealth about most anything else. Doesn't make for a particularly good starting point.
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Brian
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Sept 30, 2004 14:40:17 GMT -5
Post by Brian on Sept 30, 2004 14:40:17 GMT -5
the Dwarves in Krynn were well stubborn ,and Gruff, my favorite one was of course.. Flint Fireforge. " you blasted doorknob!" hehe * sniffle* i cried when he died
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Sept 30, 2004 15:49:53 GMT -5
Post by Louise Karczmarz on Sept 30, 2004 15:49:53 GMT -5
who on earth are these dwarves and what system are they in?
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Sept 30, 2004 16:06:10 GMT -5
Post by Brian on Sept 30, 2004 16:06:10 GMT -5
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Post by Carinthe on Oct 1, 2004 9:34:13 GMT -5
Flint Fireforge, paternal dwarven Minions of the Forum of the Heroes of the Lance, returns to his sleepy boyhood village in the foothills near Solace and unexpectedly finds it booming with commerce. When he stumbles upon the ominous source of this prosperity, he is pushed to his death in the Beast Pit. And saved by gully dwarves, along with an interesting--and interested--female dwarf. Made their monarch against his will, Flint struggles to unite the scruffy dwarves as an army to stop a fiendish plot. I see nothing wrong on this good fellow
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Oct 1, 2004 17:03:17 GMT -5
Post by Louise Karczmarz on Oct 1, 2004 17:03:17 GMT -5
Hiya Carinthe.... Nice to see visitors contributing. I think I was thinking more of the stereotypical dwarves of D&D at some time. The novels tend to be more intelligently written and veer away from the money hungry, hairy miners.
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Oct 1, 2004 17:46:53 GMT -5
Post by Dyslexic_fool on Oct 1, 2004 17:46:53 GMT -5
the novels seem to perptuate the stereotpe more than the RPG books so, well at least in my limited experience of reading the dragonlance cronicals, which may I add, is entirely based on reading a freinds copy, when I had a hangover after DJing in the Roadhouse, in exeter, on a Friday night, and feeling like hell untill they got up and made me the most heavenly cheese and salad sandwiches I have ever had in my entire life
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Oct 2, 2004 19:23:31 GMT -5
Post by MarkL on Oct 2, 2004 19:23:31 GMT -5
in some places they are the tipififed stereotype but i think on the whole even in dragon lance they are more intelligent.. now in terms of the dark elf trilogy they're really shown as brave steadfast warriors which is cool... now mind you i said dark elf trilogy not crystal shard where they arent really represented.
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Oct 4, 2004 13:30:20 GMT -5
Post by Bogof on Oct 4, 2004 13:30:20 GMT -5
Don't forget in the Dark Elf Trilogy there were also the dark Dwarves touched on, the Druegar. As spiteful as the Dark Elves but held under the sway by their more powerful magic. Most dwarves I've read about had a character either like Father Christmas on a bad day (Crusty exterior with a soppy heart) or were more like what I describe more gnome-like, as in obsessed with their own mining expertise rather than the gnomes obsession with tinkering with science.
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Oct 19, 2004 7:21:53 GMT -5
Post by Louise Karczmarz on Oct 19, 2004 7:21:53 GMT -5
How do you see the dwarves? (not the stereotype, but how would you describe a dwarf given the chance)
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Oct 19, 2004 12:00:03 GMT -5
Post by Bogof on Oct 19, 2004 12:00:03 GMT -5
I see dwarves like short vikings myself. Most art on them have Futhark type runes as their written language. So dwarves that are more likely to live in walled villages rather than huge caves underground. I always thought it rather silly having huge halls for people who are so short, they would lose any fighting advantage that their short height would give them.
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Oct 20, 2004 9:41:18 GMT -5
Post by louise on Oct 20, 2004 9:41:18 GMT -5
furthark?
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Oct 20, 2004 15:28:05 GMT -5
Post by Bogof on Oct 20, 2004 15:28:05 GMT -5
Sorry, I should have explained. I'd best by showing you a website on them members.aol.com/JehanaS/futhark/They are the runes that are used in fortune telling "i.e. casting the runes". Most dwarven writing I've seen are at least loosely based on them or one of the other 3-4 Western European runes types.
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Oct 21, 2004 12:00:10 GMT -5
Post by Louise Karczmarz on Oct 21, 2004 12:00:10 GMT -5
Ahhhh.... this does look familiar. I remember Neave having to learn it to translate the dwarven runes for Ugrim mayfest before last.... she helped either the duchess or lady tinnea with the translations and learned the language at the same time. Unfortunately, it was a mix of dwarven runes and real nordic ones, so translation was 80% guesswork as to which was which.
I did see they've got a link to elder futhark font for windows, that's cool. I do think that if we did do that, the dwarven language would have to be a mix of runes for the most important words that would be used in keeping histories (like their name and the names of other races) and a more comprehensive spoken language that compliments the nordic runes.
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