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15 Unusual Dwarf Types

DavidThis article was written by Jesse C Cohoon, I spotted it on the RoleplayingTips newsletter & thought it’d be really useful for someone roleplaying in a fantasy setting, so wanted to republish it here. If you get time though, definitely check out Jesse’s other articles at fantasyroleplayingplanes.blogspot.com.

Dwarves in popular culture are often depicted as being dour, bearded, short, and squat creatures who excel in mining gems and precious metals from the earth, have a great fondness of drink, are expert miners, and excel at smithing.

But a more thorough look at these creatures might show them to be a bit more complex than first thought. Here are several ideas to help flesh out your campaign setting with interesting dwarves.

unusual dwarf types

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How to use an apostrophe

how to use an apostrphe

I see people using apostrophes wrong all the time, so I thought posting a link to this great Oatmeal comic would be helpful. I personally find the misuse of apostrophes annoying, although in some of the more complicated instances I can understand why. Read More

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What makes a post awesome?

be awesome

The following is an extract from a guide to roleplaying by Kepler Station. I really like it when games & clubs help to educate people and bring them into our hobby of roleplaying! Read More

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Positive & negative trait tables

Death note kira vs L

We’ve posted an article about character personality traits before, but here’s several tables which focusses on the postive and negative versions of the same trait. Sometimes it’s fun to pair characters up with their opposites, so here’s a list of traits and their opposites. Read More

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Try not to be the center of attention

Bird at the centre of attention
The biggest cause for arguments in a roleplaying game is that one person tries to be the center of attention, and it pisses everyone else off. Read More

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There will be bugs!

You might have noticed some changes to the site yesterday. That’s because I uploaded a whole lotta changes all at once! Here’s my video about that: Read More

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5 cool map generators

map generator

Ever wanted to create a map for your game, to maybe show to other players to indicate where you’re exploring, or what your home base looks like? Read More

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Use a random generator to give all your NPCs Japanese names

Commander farsight

If you’ve got a Star Trek game where you visit new planets often, or have a classic D&D party where you’re visiting one village to the next meeting different and interesting trbes of people, isn’t it cool when a new tribe you meet all have similar names – or names on a theme?  Read More

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3 awesome quotes about writing by Kurt Vonnegut

every sentence must do one of 2 things, reveal a character of advance the action

I found these great quotes about writing which I think is great advice for roleplayers: Read More

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10 of the greatest Spock quotes

In 2015 we lost Leonard Nimoy, best known as Spock from Star Trek. Although we don’t have many Star Trek games on OngoingWorlds (the ones we have are here), there are many fans among us, and the Star Trek universe still thrives in so many online roleplaying games. Below are some of the best quotes by Spock, which really make you think.

loss of life is to be mourned, but only if life is wasted

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