Again distinct lack of dwarves, as the thread drifts almost immediately to humans and elves.

Nice set up from beyond

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Dwarves can live to be more than 400 years old, so the oldest living dwarves often remember a very different world. For example, some of the oldest dwarves living in Citadel Felbarr (in the world of the Forgotten Realms) can recall the day, more than three centuries ago, when orcs conquered the fortress and drove them into an exile that lasted over 250 years. This longevity grants them a perspective on the world that shorter-lived races such as humans and halflings lack.

Dwarves are solid and enduring like the mountains they love, weathering the passage of centuries with stoic endurance and little change. They respect the traditions of their clans, tracing their ancestry back to the founding of their most ancient strongholds in the youth of the world, and don’t abandon those traditions lightly. Part of those traditions is devotion to the gods of the dwarves, who uphold the dwarven ideals of industrious labor, skill in battle, and devotion to the forge.

Individual dwarves are determined and loyal, true to their word and decisive in action, sometimes to the point of stubbornness. Many dwarves have a strong sense of justice, and they are slow to forget wrongs they have suffered. A wrong done to one dwarf is a wrong done to the dwarf’s entire clan, so what begins as one dwarf’s hunt for vengeance can become a full-blown clan feud.

Plenty of inroads I'd think. I'd like to see a Dwarves take on the current crew.

I prefer something that could tilt good or evil path, but that's more law driven. A curmudgeonly cravenly greedy Dwarf is more my taste, but I'd settle for whatever. As there's like nothing right now on offer.

I'm assuming we see more than a single Shorty, but I hope we at least get a Dwarf, and of the sub-archetypal classes remaining to be seen in EA Paladin, Barbarian, Bard, Druid... I think a Paladin/Warpriest type is the best fit for a Dwarf. Or at least one that tries to go more Gimli-style, classic tank. I could see a Skald if doing more the Alberich call back, with magical strength, trickster angle. Either would be fun.

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I wish they'd tease more of their plans for companions. 8 seems not enough to me, they least need a dirty dozen. In which case maybe one could hope for more than a single dwarf, but I'd take just one at least

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