Now, I am going to be very skeptical and assume that the primary concern is not dwarves but halflings, as dwarves have been a established fantasy character across many fantasy universes and I have *never* heard anyone draw the conclusion that there would be any problems between the romance of Tauriel and Kili (The Hobbit movies) or any similar dwarven x non-dwarven relationships.
I agree with basically everything you've said Dez, but I want to point out that the Dragon Age series infamously doesn't have any dwarven npc full romance options. There's an oft-cited (and likely taken out of context) quote from a writer: "female dwarves often look like 14 year-old girls."
DAI has a female dwarf NPC that you can flirt with throughout the entire game but that doesn't develop into the typical Bioware romance event. Which I guess is what @Blackheifer may be suggesting: romance but no sex. But then we circle back to it being weird that you can have graphic relations with some npcs but not (certain races of) other npcs...
I agree. The conversation is looping, and I feel like we're not understanding each other. :[ I've dropped the conversation with my last reply. c:
Besides. NPCs in DA games have never been player sexual, as far as I am aware, so Bioware never really got into *that* part of the discussion. Arguing "well this character have these particular preferences" is much easier than saying "oh, sure our NPCs are player sexual. Why we have no sex scenes with the dwarves? ... We're afraid associating dwarves with children for nudity scenes" as the latter can be really tricky when it comes to the little people community and today's representation ideals in general. :|
EDIT: Besides... Is it not in the Faerûn universe that female dwarves have beard? *thinking* It comes from somewhere and although I do hate it with a passion I do not remember where the trend came from.. . _ .
