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[Greiger]

A rabble of short bearded folk in dirty clothing.  Bloodstained boots regardless of profession.   Good high quality armor and weapons, but rarely decorated.  With a love of mushrooms.

throw in a slightly disheveled, not quite all there, look too them (like that one older hippy from that 70s show) and you have my idea of DF dwarves.

[malimbar04]

My base dwarf is like the dwarves in LotR (the live action one). Then the more I learn about what they look like, what theyd o, and what the like modfies it.

My military of all sword dwarves I imagine to be like Gimli. Except they are wearing all sorts of different metals for each piece of equipment. steel sword, iron leggings, leapord leather backpack, brass flask (on their hip of course), steel helm, bronze boots, iron chain mail (or banded mail), and so forth. Their short swords (roman style) are particularly awesome.

All the dwarves I label as peasants though stay as smiley faces (or at best cartoons). They are the list of names that I do not care about and do not notice unless they screw up or unless my food supplies run low (which they take the blame for).

[Arkenstone]

I may have spent too much time in Nethack and other rogue-likes in the past, but I have no difficulties to imagine them as the smiley faces that they are ingame.

If a dragon titan appears, I also have no difficulties to imagine him as a giant uppercase D... I don't see a dragon infront of my eyes.


To explain by using images made for another game: http://www.adom.de/adom/gallery.php3  I imagine my dwarves like in the pictures on the top of that site.

Wow I'm sorta the opposite lol.  It's like the matrix, I don't even see the code...  Heck, I don't even see what the code represents, I just know a dwarf's here and an elephant's there and there's a whole lot of corpses strewn around.

[MagmaMcFry]

Same for me. I always understand things immediately, like a yellow plus sign followed by a blinking solid red smiley followed by a blue-backgrounded dark grey small g followed by a small blue dot.

[Encased in burning magma]

Batshit insane midgets. With beards.

Aside from this common trait, their is considerable variation in the ways I consider them. Haulers are more like "I hate my life, it has no meaning", danger rooms military dwarves are akin to terminators (cannot feel fear or remorse or pity and cannot be stopped until killed) with dead eyes, magma diggers laugh a lot, that butcher lady always rubs her hands creepily, the legendary-weaponsmith-without any other labors-and his own forge is a smug, graying dwarf with a deep love of his job, etc.

And then it also depends on a dwarf history. A military dwarf that spent his entire life waiting in the rain will not be the same for me than one who spent his years killing crundles, reachers, crundles, hungry heads, crundles and more crundles.

[MiniMacker]

They are gigantic, sentinent beards attached to poor, beardless midgets.

What? Makes sense.

[rephikul]

☺

[Herbiie]

Dead generally.

[NewSheoth]

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Short and to the point. I like that and this way of dorf picturing too.

[Zrk2]

A horde of illiterate pagans running around in tatters of clothing and coated in mud.
They live in eternal fear of what my be unearthed in the deeps.
Deep in their subconscious is rooted the idea that trees are evil.
They are all able to shape stone with their bare hands.

[Encased in burning magma]

A horde of illiterate pagans running around in tatters of clothing and coated in mud.
They live in eternal fear of what my be unearthed in the deeps.
Deep in their subconscious is rooted the idea that trees are evil.
They are all able to shape stone with their bare hands.

Ah, yes, I forgot the part about beard fishing/smoothing/rock crafting.
MY BEARD FASHIONS MUGS! BEHOLD!

[vhappylurker]

Usually, like this. And especially this.