10/23/01 - Latest News

Roleplaying Dwarves
Berendir @ 8:28 pm EST

RPGnet put up an interesting article on Dwarves, their origins, differences, and most important, how they are role played.

If investigating the archetypology of dwarves was like choosing a fine wine, then 1937 would be the finest vintage you could ask for. Two pieces of fantasy fiction were released that year which would forever after set the dwarven archetype in stone (pun intended)--Tolkien's The Hobbit, and Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. And when you compare them side by side, Sleepy, Dopey, Happy, Sneezy, Grumpy, Doc, and Bashful are really no different from Dwalin, Balin, Fili, Kili, Dori, Nori and Ori, except for the fact that the latter 7 are also joined by Oin, Gloin, Bifur, Bofur and Bombur (and a certain Hobbit, of course).[More]