Dorf art thread

What is the best way to DORF
>Build
>Construct
>Kord
>Undercommon Slayer

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>>53349163
>Dorfs

>>53349466
rip my asshole, you really showed me

Rekt into the next millennium

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>>53350868
That's all I've got.

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>>53350883

here, this should tide you over until someone else comes along with more

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Posting some favorite GW dorfs

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>>53352867
Final favorite

So /tg/, why do dwarves suck so much?

>>53354967
Because they're all the same person

Thanks for the help, anons.

>>53355042
Dorf grill a cute. Even with the beard.

>>53352822
Those hair are absolute retarded.

>>53349163
>Old
>Heavily bearded
>Celtic
>Axe, Hammer, or crossbow only
>WoW stlye shitty looking armor or LOTR angular stuff

Why are dwarves the least aesthetically diverse token fantasy race in every setting ever

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>>53359409
In all honesty, no idea.

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>>53359409
I don't think people in the past saw much need for variety and liked them as they were - or maybe compared to elves, they were only liked by people who didn't want variety.

Sounds stupid, but think about it: elves ended up getting at least three basic flavors, high, wood, and dark. Arguably elves could have ended up as just wood elves and been like how the dwarves are, but obviously enough people liked them they wanted variety - they wanted to be an elven wizard, or an elven archer, or an elven rogue, not just one or the other. Really simple way of explaining it, but it gets the basic idea across.

But with dwarves, most people would just want to play a short hitty guy in heavy armor and probably with some sort of magic resistance, or reluctance to use magic. You don't need to change the initial concept for that at all.

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http://readcomiconline.to/Comic/Dwarves

I really recommend checking this comic out. Came for the dwarf tits, stayed for the good art and well written stories.

>>53359409
See, I like Dwarves just as they are, and I remain entertained, to this day, by the short greedy Jews Scotsmen that live in mountains and drink oceans of alcohol.

I dunno, I'm easily entertained.

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>>53361495
Thanks for that anon

>>53363942
perfection

You anons are truly gods among men.

>>53360277
I
Disagree

Personally I find that role being filled by an entire race as pretty pointless. Consider this:

Dwarf, doesn't like magic, easy to ire but loyal, skeptical, competent in battle and in tradesmanship. Strong connections to his kin. Practical.

Have you ever- EVER played a game with a dwarf character that does not follow that archetype? I know I haven't.

I mean, I like it, but it's been done to death. If we're roleplaying the first session and I can already anticipate EXACTLY how your character is going to react to every single situation, I'm sorry, but your character has no depth. I don't mean to say that dwarf can't be done right, I just think it's a shame that people can just say "dwarf" and that explains their whole character. Best dwarf-related character I played with was actually a human from a society that was built on top of dwarven ruins and idolized a romanticized, chivalry version of dwarven society.

>>53354967
They are all ugly, there are no fabulous dwarves

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>>53364773
I'm playing a shifty dwarf warlock in a game currently. Fascinated by magic artifacts, overly friendly but secretive, poncy and greedy, avoids all talk about kin. Though I suppose you could argue the goal was to be the most suspicious seeming dwarf possible.
>>53364778
I would disagree.

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>>53364773
Also, I'm curious to know when the whole anti-magic thing became a part of dwarves. Being overtly magical craftsmen was the core of their concept if you go back enough. How'd this reversal come about?

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>>53364883
I just seems fucked that your typical Elf character that would follow an elfy society in their respective setting is generally shit on for being sueish, but just writing the word "dorf" on a sheet of paper, sort of vaguely doing a scottish accent, and remember the hit dice for a battleaxe gets a pass most of the time.

I feel like there's a better avenue.

I mean, how do you do "MY DORFS ARE DIFFERENT" without loosing that ephemeral... dwarfyness?

>>53364958
>Asiatic dwarves
I never understood applying human ethnicities to nonhuman races. Wouldn't they have like... different ethnicity? I mean, I understand convergent trait development, but with that much time species might just interbreed, depending on how that works in your setting. I don't know.

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>>53364955
Dwarves have been a lot of things if you dig enough. It's just the modern expectations are bizarrely specific. It think you'd just have to ignore the fact whatever you come up with will always leave someone moaning that it's not dwarfy enough

>>53365095
Know what I would like to see? Dwarves as the authoritarian, military industrialized slave-owning evil empire that rules everything. Something like those guys who run the Covenant in Halo, but not necessarily with the religious element.

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>>53364989
Maybe they would, maybe they wouldn't. Maybe humans/dwarves/elves etc all descend from the same ancestor and have the same potential for gene expression. Maybe ethnic identifiers actually serve a practical purpose that any similarly shaped humanoid would logically veer towards. Maybe the gods just made them to be that similar. Maybe the artist just thought it looked nice. It's fantasy so there's a million ways you could justify it.

Also it's not like fantasy doesn't commonly use other ethnic identifiers. There's always those weird subraces with inhuman skin tones or pebbles on their skin or quills for hair or whatever.

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>>53365188
There was a french comic, Orks: the Voice of Arms, where dwarves were allied with humans and were a military industrial slaver race that was destroying the forests of the more hippy dippy, nature loving races of elves and orks.
They also looked like actual dwarves, as in like humans with dwarfism that also got a good beating with the ugly stick

>>53365188
That sounds like chaos dwarves if you added silly hats.

>>53364955
The first step is to remove gnomes (at least the wow-styled ones) and halflings. They're basically bizarro dwarves. Snowhite 7 dwarves could very well be gnomes or even hobbits.

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>>53365384
Maybe gnomes and halflings could be dwarf ethnicities
In my own setting I'm trying to decide between making gnomes that, a dwarf/elf halfbreed, or a troll subrace

>>53359409
>LOTR angular stuff
You mean Jackson angular stuff.

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For your females...
...Do you prefer Discworld's full beard, LotR's small beard or D&D's no beard?

>>53365605
I like to imagine that it's just fashionable among dwarf women to style their hair in a manner that covers their face and could be mistaken for a beard.

>>53365647
This is the worst option. To suggest that all dwarf women want to be men is not only boring but also weird. Why wouldn't a female dwarf embrace what makes them female?

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>>53365707
>Why wouldn't a female dwarf embrace what makes them female?
Anon, you could ask that to human women.

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>>53365605
Never could learn to like the full beard look. I can accept the others though, and have even grown fond of the sideburns look

>>53365707
Rigidly patriarchal societal structure that promotes masculinity as a measure of success perhaps. Precedence set by a revered historical, religious of mythological figure could also do it

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Why do humans have beards anyway? Seems a very bizarre bit of sexual selection, considering how hairless we are otherwise.

>>53365816
Humans aren't otherwise hairless. We have hair all over our bodies, albeit most of it is just peach-fuzz.

>>53364955
Draw inspiration from cultures with comparable styles and values.

Make them bogatyr from Russian folklore.
Make them big hairy Greek traders.
Make them Afrikaner prospectors.
Mix and match, try some shit out.

>>53364773
I'm not saying I personally agree with how things are now, I'm just saying I think that's how their lack of aesthetic diversity came about - I don't think many people had a problem with dwarves in the past, or maybe they couldn't think of a satisfying variation on them.

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>>53365605
Sideburns.

>>53365204
we need more of these

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>>53370450
>not "conquistadorf"

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I ran a D&D Campaign a few years back, This is one of the PC's His own requested drawing of his Ranger
His name is Gromgirth Firit

>>53359409
>Celtic
Really, lad?