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Rolang’s Creeping Doom

A friend pointed me to an old-school RPG blog called Rolang’s Creeping Doom. Specifically, to a post entitled “A Dwarf Says What?”

The post contains 30 dwarvish proverbs, along with the proper meaning and a mistaken translation or interpretation commonly repeated amongst men.

My favourite is #13:

“Every dwarf must dig his own tunnel.” [Meaning: in life.]

And here is the human interpretation:

Dwarves do not band together during adversity, but dig a tunnel to escape.

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Diggy Diggy Hole

My little site has somehow become associated with the Diggy Diggy Hole internet meme. I wasn’t familiar with this before today; here is my favourite video:

(On a related note, Anonymous comments are now disabled.)

For those who arrived here via Google, click here to learn about Dwarven Glory.

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Elves (SBVD version)

There’s an excellent D&D/Warhammer hack available online from Chris Hogan at the Vaults of Nagoh, called Small But Vicious Dog.

The following excerpt has been making the rounds lately in the old-school blogosphere, but I’d like to repeat it here to provide an idea of how elves are perceived in Dwarven Glory:

All elves are metrosexual minstrels and archers who fly into fey rages when provoked. The elven ability to lose it in spectacularly violent fashion has been clocked at “Nought to Feanor in 4.2 seconds”. Most PC elves are filthy tree-hugging pseudo-Celtic Wood Elves, although the Sea Elves who hang out in coastal cities seem to be a kind of Elven gap year backpacker. No one’s quite sure what the mohawked, spandex-wearing paramilitary Riverdance troupe known as Wardancers are supposed to be, apart from FABULOUS!

Rumour has it that the Elven homelands are contested in an endless war between two mighty and ancient factions: the louche-and-arty vs. the darker-and-edgier. The origin of their interminable strife is unknown, although it probably began as a spat over the relative aesthetic merits of art nouveau and gothic revival styles. Elves of these factions are far too in love with themselves to do anything so déclassé as adventuring for gain.

Check out the Character Races post for rules on playing an elf.

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Dwarves vs. Snake (OSRIC Edition)

I just downloaded the OSRIC Player’s Guide, with art (and editing) by Steve Robertson. On Page 7 is an homage to the two dwarves vs. snake image from p. 13 of the AD&D Player’s Handbook. It looks like in OSRIC, the snake won the dispute…

OSRIC is essentially a retro-clone of AD&D, and the Player’s Guide is a collection of all the rules required for the creation of PCs. It’s available from RPGNow as a free pdf download.

(BTW, the header art for the Dwarven Glory gameblog is taken from p. 89 of the HackMaster Player’s Handbook. Unfortunately, there’s no signature on the drawing, so I’m not sure of the artist.)

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