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Pay the Dwarven Price

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#1
ManicMonkey
May 31, 2015 2:05:54
This one is a little bit of a random thought and rambles some so bare with me. In the Player's Handbook Mountain Dwarves are Shield dwarves in Faerun and Hill Dwarves the Gold Dwarves. Well, that reminded me of World of Warcraft where the main dwarf subrace is Iron Dwarves with Wild Dwarves the second. I was thinking as a culture they would relate thing to what they know most. That being stuff of the earth, Mountain = Iron, Hill = Gold, and the Duegar (Grey Dwarf) = Lead. The last Duegar bying liken to lead in as lead is grey and poisonous leading to maddness and death. Now that the player race dwarves are set in my mind as Iron and Gold that of course brought to mind Game of Thrones Pay the Iron Price. So look at the stats that Mountain gets +2 Str. and training in light and medium armor. Added with dwarven weapon training looks to fit with a mercenary mindset of use the strength of their iron to be paid gold ( being dwarves it's all about the shiny stuff and maybe beer ). The Hill gets +1 Wis. and more health. Good for keeping a sharp eye for trade goods and a good deal. The hit points for when the deal goes bad. My home setting is Eberron. This set up fits really well with that world in that their the banking power of Khorvaire, like the Medici Family of Florence or the Iron Bank of Braavos. I see Gold dwarves keeping the books and Iron dwarves enforceing them. Expanding on that you could have rogue clans raiding for loot (this is where you normaly have orcs in other settings) Thanks for listening. Please post what you think. Have fun and run with it.

#2
Macv12
May 31, 2015 8:10:19
I don't know what I just read, but it was entertaining.

#3
FunkySpunk
Jun 01, 2015 9:29:50
I think he found the key to the emoticons.

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Dougan_Axehammer

Macv12 wrote:
#5
Varden_Khol
Jun 02, 2015 15:50:07
In Game of Thrones "Paying the The Iron Price" means killing someone in order to get something you want, instead of paying for it. It comes from the 'Viking Style' Raiding culture of the people who live on the Iron Islands.
Their whole deal is about taking what you want, not trading for it the way that weak mainlanders do. (Iron Price vs Gold Price)

These would be some ruthless dwarves, to be sure.

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ManicMonkey

FunkySpunk wrote:
#7
ManicMonkey
Jun 21, 2015 0:42:27
Playing Eberron has me looking at the classic tropes of rpg and seeing how they would evolve in a more freeform world. Also trying to make a lot of things grey not just black & white. It keeps my players guessing. Will the DM go with " big ugly monster, check that's the bad guy. Or what a twist it's the pretty princes/prince it's the bad guy". To be fair I try to drop hints everywhere, plus high rolls will always lead you the wright way. With all that said sometimes it's nice to run a classic ( and let them know there's no twist) just to keep things fresh.

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#1 ManicMonkey May 31, 2015 2:05:54	This one is a little bit of a random thought and rambles some so bare with me. In the Player's Handbook Mountain Dwarves are Shield dwarves in Faerun and Hill Dwarves the Gold Dwarves. Well, that reminded me of World of Warcraft where the main dwarf subrace is Iron Dwarves with Wild Dwarves the second. I was thinking as a culture they would relate thing to what they know most. That being stuff of the earth, Mountain = Iron, Hill = Gold, and the Duegar (Grey Dwarf) = Lead. The last Duegar bying liken to lead in as lead is grey and poisonous leading to maddness and death. *Now* that the player race dwarves are set in my mind as Iron and Gold that of course brought to mind Game of Thrones Pay the Iron Price. So look at the stats that Mountain gets +2 Str. and training in light and medium armor. Added with dwarven weapon training looks to fit with a mercenary mindset of use the strength of their iron to be paid gold ( being dwarves it's all about the shiny stuff and maybe beer ). The Hill gets +1 Wis. and more health. Good for keeping a sharp eye for trade goods and a good deal. The hit points for when the deal goes bad. My home setting is Eberron. This set up fits really well with that world in that their the banking power of Khorvaire, like the Medici Family of Florence or the Iron Bank of Braavos. I see Gold dwarves keeping the books and Iron dwarves enforceing them. Expanding on that you could have rogue clans raiding for loot (this is where you normaly have orcs in other settings) Thanks for listening. Please post what you think. Have fun and run with it.
#2 Macv12 May 31, 2015 8:10:19	I don't know what I just read, but it was entertaining.
#3 FunkySpunk Jun 01, 2015 9:29:50	I think he found the key to the emoticons.
(Reply to #2) Dougan_Axehammer	Macv12 wrote:
#5 Varden_Khol Jun 02, 2015 15:50:07	In Game of Thrones "Paying the The Iron Price" means killing someone in order to get something you want, instead of paying for it. It comes from the 'Viking Style' Raiding culture of the people who live on the Iron Islands. Their whole deal is about taking what you want, not trading for it the way that weak mainlanders do. (Iron Price vs Gold Price) These would be some ruthless dwarves, to be sure.
(Reply to #3) ManicMonkey	FunkySpunk wrote:
#7 ManicMonkey Jun 21, 2015 0:42:27	Playing Eberron has me looking at the classic tropes of rpg and seeing how they would evolve in a more freeform world. Also trying to make a lot of things grey not just black & white. It keeps my players guessing. Will the DM go with " big ugly monster, check that's the bad guy. Or what a twist it's the pretty princes/prince it's the bad guy". To be fair I try to drop hints everywhere, plus high rolls will always lead you the wright way. With all that said sometimes it's nice to run a classic ( and let them know there's no twist) just to keep things fresh.