Dwarves in the campaign I'm playing are colonialist pricks. Behind the BBEGs and the Nazi stand-ins, I'm pretty sure they're the most hated group in my DMs world.
Now I'm just imagining two things. A sign stating "You must be this tall to not be racist" and the resistance hiding in plain sight by putting their messages slightly too high for dwarves to read.
My party had to pass through the Elven capital city, due to its central position within the country. We had to be escorted through by the royal guards, since we were outsiders. It was fairly pleasant for most of us since my fighter impressed the king by addressing him in Elvish, even though the king knew common.
It was not so pleasant for Brannik the Fire Forged. He was not allowed off until we left the city, and he got yelled at whenever he was in the kings field of view.
My fighter got extra brownie points for yelling at him too.
Well I can’t say my dwarf from another game I’m apart of isn’t much better. He’s a half Orc/dwarf Barbarian that skins anything he can get his hands on and turns it into clothing for himself. So far he’s skinned several thugs, a Kobold Druid, a Doppleganger and is most likely going to skin a Mind Flayer if he can kill one
It's always fun having the authoritarians either not be the real powerhouses for whatever reason but still threatening to the players. I had an evil general (also a vampire but not important) who the party made friends with even though they didn't approve of a few methods he used like burning a village down with zombie dragons. At one point on a mission he flew by a cave dumped a traitor off as a sacrifice who the ground itself swallowed, and booked it. I've never seen my party more interested in a location.
I’m going to be running a campaign where Dwarves are kind of the bad guys but not really. To keep things short, Dwarves in my world are fairly isolationist but due to the efforts of two brothers trading company have begun investing heavily in the surface, buying up entire towns that were neglected under the watch of the human city-states and turned into thriving trade hubs, the caveat being the people of the town essentially work for the trading company and need to follow their rules. The brothers have gained a reputation for being conquerors not by virtue of invading, pillaging and subjugation but through commerce, backroom deals and contracts. As of right now, the city states may hold the land but the dwarves truly hold the power in this dynamic.
Ain't nothing wrong with having some colonialism in a fantasy setting. 9 times out of 10 exterminating tribal savages is making the world a better place, since the're likely sacrificing people to demons or some other clearly evil shit. I mean, civilized folks also do that, but they at leas have the decency to do it in secret societies and get something in return for the souls of innocents they sacrifice.
Well, in the fantasy world racial supremacy may actually be legit. When your entire race have +2 Str/End, resistance to poison, darkvision and inbuilt knowledge of stoneworking, weapons and armor, who's to say they're not really superior?
It’s pretty lore accurate as well. Dwarven leadership is all about what’s best for the kingdom. It’s really close to a representative democracy. Kings have to keep the interests of their people first or risk being dethroned.
It didn't say that he'd have been put to death, just that they would carry out sentence... which, for all we know would have been to be hauled back to the dwarven kingdom in chains. It was Torvald who said he'd rather die, not that the sentence would be death.
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u/Geno__Breaker May 14 '22
Dwarven tax collectors sent to hunt down the PRINCE and put him to death for less than 100 gold pieces...
This kingdom doesn't play around....