You, Whom I Have Always Hated: Dwarves and the Divine
I more or less made a solemn promise to always make gameable posts. Then I was challenged by my good friend Beloch Shrike over at www.paperspencils.com to post some pointless GM wank. Something useless, but fun for me. I wrote recently that dwarves are atheistic, scientific, and opposed to the idea of magic. Why? They live in a world of magic. Even if the principles of science oppose those of magic and the gods, to doubt them would itself be unscientific, as they can be observed. No, dwarves know it exists. Dwarves originated from magic. In the times when ice covered the earth, the first intelligent, manlike creatures emerged, the giantfolk. From the giants came the gods, formed somehow in the layers of the impenetrable glaciers. From the gods came man, crafted from the wood of the first tree. From the bodies of giants came the land, the oceans, the sky. From their blood came dwarves, the maggots that came to feast upon the corpse the gods had left. The dwarves...