This could take a while. We'd be creating an account, making the character, including huge-ass backstory, posting, and waiting waiting waiting for the douchés to respond.
'
How about we work out character concepts to post instead?

Here's a fun idea.

Make Gaston.

>>8627697
And his dwarf Sidekick, LeFou!

>>8626939
wait, your picture interests me.
Gelatinous Cube Hero?

>>8627728
le Fou, you say?

>>8627779
Is that slowpoke in a tophat in the background?

Only worth it if you have the time, patience and mental fortitude to go deep cover and get the entire meta-plot fucked over.

>>8627810
It's a hippo.

But yes, it is definitely wearing a top hat.

>>8626939
Is .. is that an awakened gelatinous cube with cleric levels by any chance?

>>8627831
I like my interpretation better.

>>8626939

Could you explain what those numbers mean?

Also, Why don't we try sending in a group of seven dwarves, all at least novice miners, with copper picks. Find a magma vent. Go all DF MAGMA DEATH on them all.

and if they Mary Sue their way out of that, Dig to deep. and if they go out of that, Spam the boards to death with obviously superior universes beating the shit out of them.

Alternatively, use the plan used by many an attacker here: Post so much furry porn that they can't avoid it. Perhaps re-direct the spambots.

>>8627810
No, but have my old display picture.

>>8627898

DF plan might work. Although if they all register at around the same time and have similar stories then the mods might think something is going on.

>One tip: If the rest of your character sheet is bigger than the character's background, you have probably prioritized wrong.
Fuck this shit.

Aha! I suggest we open up our own clan in that roleplay. How many people have characters on there? I see the makings of poison-using dwarves, a literal Dorf Fort.

I have a plan. The RP forum is pretty much dead, no doubt due to the faggotry of those who run it. So we have free reign, for all intents and purposes, so long as we play by the rules.

So here is plan. It's two waves. First is drow characters of whatever types we can manage, who go about the RPing as normal.

Second waves is humans and dwarves and other "inferior" races that will act as slaves initially.

In this situation, though the non-drow can never start out badass, they can become badass. Basically, we have our non-drow getting into contests with our drow, never anything like a rebellion because that would be deleted, and our drow throw the matches every time.

Just picture that for a bit.

>>8627982
Better yet. Misogynistic dwarves, jealous and greedy for the magic that the fae/drow possess?

>>8627982
Wait, wait, wait.

There's an opportunity here. Use their own drowtardation against them.

Dwarf fortress. Dwarf clan. With Sandwich. There's no way they'll be able to resist if we use the right kind of bait.

>>8627898
The furry spamming, might work, but they might actually like it. Go with gore instead.

>>8628011
Subtle trolls make for better roleplay. Furry porn spam is not only low and stupid, it just makes them dig their heels in harder. Besides, my roleplay skills are rusty and I want to shine them all up again.

Suggestions for a Dorfen name?

>>8628011
I like the way Snrub thinks.

>>8628040
Tordek Tordekson, Son of Tordek, Paladin of Brosideon, God of the Brocean, having dominion of all the is Brolicious, Bitchin', and Dorfy.

He is in it for the bitches.

His one true nemesis is Brosef Stalin, Lord of the 9th Circle of Brotown and Ruler of all Broshitistan.

And his sidekick, the Mad Doctor Brosef Mengele.

>>8628011

Dude, if /tg/ actually makes a fucking Dwarf clan for this shit I'm fucking in with a 10.

Fucking Sandwich would b so goddam awesome, kicking the shit out of other Drow for the glory of her broken clan.

>>8628040
Urist. It has to be Urist.

Urist Budgethammer.

I could be down for something like >>8627989, creating a 'rebellion' of sorts, staging it.

It would take too much coordination though, and not enough lulz.

I'd be down for making a fake drow, just so I can give you all some platemail or something.

>>8628040
/r/ing the Dwarven Name Generator image

>>8627898 here

I'm suprised how positive the idea of a DF dorf invasion is, but this is /tg/... Maybe send them in one at a time, with different enough backgrounds that they don't see it coming, and slowly get them to band together. Then, turn DT into DF, and burn the stinking elves with the blood of ARMOK (AKA magma).

>>8628016
>>8628040
Exelent points, furry porn would either be celebrated (proving that they need more magma dumped on them to remove it properly) or would just make them aware of the attack... Guro would likely be a better attack method.

hm... perhaps a few sacrificial Guro attacks after the initial Dorf insertion, to make them think that THAT is the attack? the Dorf group pretends to help deal with it like the rest of them, then waits for the perfect moment to attack.

>>8628089
Urist Budgethammer it is. He drinks ale, and he's a leatherworker. He makes gas-masks so dwarves can live in their poisoned environment, as well as light armor. He uses a short sword as a primary weapon with a small shield reinforced with steel bands, and has a heavy crossbow slung over his back. He prefers the crossbow.

That OK for a loadout? Leave the backstory to me.

>>8628149
Also, in the spirit of Dorf Fortress, every fa/tg/uy making a dwarf in there MUST have a profession. We'll play it off in our backstories as there being very few dwarves left, the remainder had to delegate jobs to each other. They're battle-hardened and grim, unless they're in their cups.

>>8628148
What if they mistake the Guro as sacrifices for Lolth?

>>8628149
Any chance we can get a drawfag in on this? Give Urist some art, really punch up the pitch? The more it looks like we put into the idea the more likely they are to bite.

>>8628103
Well, the whole point is that they don't just delete the threads. Wouldn't really need to much coordination, just a list of what characters are from /tg/. Maybe not even that, the RP forums are pretty dead.

So it'd basically be just us doing the RP as would be normal for the forum, and setting up "rigged matches."

The highest organization necessary would be someone posting on /tg/ to tell us that a rigged match is being set up so whoever wants to can get in on it.

And it'll piss of Kern and his friends-in-fetish, without actually giving them a reason to stop us.

>>8628148
Guro would seem like to obvious on an invasion. We -might- be able to work it in, if it were part of the story.. the lads from the fort fucking up some invading drow or the like. But if the goal is to try to fuck with their canon spamming guro would tip out hand way too early.

We'd have to decide if we're there to troll, or to invade. Personally I'm leaning towards troll. Better payoff in the long run.

>>8628177

More than one Urist could lead to suspicion though... Of course, they must have Dorf names, but only one Urist for the attack.

>>8628149
Dirty blond hair often cut back to fit into a gasmask. His beard is well-kept and long (down to the start of his legs), but lacks any braids, because he thinks them childish. Fair skin, blue eyes, and generally stout and dorfish otherwise.

By the way, although guns aren't allowed, GUNPOWDER is allowed for dwarves. Take that as incentive.

>>8628168
My name is Iden Dumdomas.

Who am I?

Why, I am the son of a Woodcutter.

>guns aren't allowed, GUNPOWDER is allowed

Wait, are cannons allowed or are they just fucking retarded?

>>8628272
>Son of a Woodcutter
>Woodcutter
>Woodsman
>SON OF A WOODSMAN

I say we support this thread with a Dorf artwork dump

>>8628310

>>8628284
Cannons sound primitive enough to work. If not, we can go the Picard route: Hollowed out trees, pour in a base of gunpowder, and drop shrapnel in there (like silverware, rusted weapons, shit, etc.)

rolled 91 = 91

>>8628272
I'm sorry, but the idea of bringing the noblebright of the son of a woodsman into the grim darkness of the underdark is awesome.

Do it.

>>8628272
>>8628306

>>8628316

>>8628342

Think this'll fly as my character portrait?

>>8628149
you're forgetting the important bit of having 2 CATS

>>8628360
Bah, you arent helping me /tg/

>>8628076
Where does Leon Brotsky fit in?

Or Fidel Casbro?

>>8628076
Isn't the sidekick more likely to be Bro Chi Minh?

>>8628374
Sorry, Onos, my picture folder lacks Dorfen pictures.

I'm awaiting approval on the forum now. I'll copy these ideas onto a notepad and get ready to make Budgethammer.

>>8626939
I can conclude from reading this that this person would be the shittiest GM ever.

Also DROW OWN EVERYTHING jesus fuck what a terrible setting

>>8628374
On that note, got any blond/dirty blond, straight-bearded Dorfs?

>>8628331
Hmm... To really do it justice, I'll have to roll out as a Human, unfortunately...

Besides, having a Human or two sign up will throw suspicion off of the Dwarves, right?

>>8628432
Closest I've got

>>8628428
We have all known GMs like this. I personally know a player who has STACKS of fucking drow sourcebooks, and attempts to play drow at every fucking chance.

For this guy, and for all of humankind..

...you have my sword.

On the note of >>8628284 with gunpowder, I am more than willing to create a human with nothing but gunpowder on me to create a sort of kamikaze fighter.

One death in the cause of purity is nothing.

You have my sword at your side.

>>8628330
>>8628284

They have shown dwarves with hand cannons before, so that should work, but apparently Drow children can deflect cannon shot with their fists. Hence why Trolling is to commence if they try that BS with a rapidly moving wall of MAGMA.

Also, DF image. Hm... sic Carp on them? Nah, different universe, they would dismiss it... Hm, might we call one Dorf Carpslayer?

OH! By the way, trollan gamers, there's a trick to getting around the 'more than one paragraph' trick. Notice other profiles have backgrounds just as long... they just have more sentences and space out their paragraphs.

Anyone here going to play drow so they can die nice and guro at the hands of our dorfs?

>>8628486
>Drow children can deflect cannon shot with their fists

Where is this? Please link.

>>8628330
Jesus fuck, what a clusterfuck of a setting. They have gunpowder, and they have metal that is strong enough to be made into plate yet light enough for every single fucking 97-pound drow woman to wear said plate, but they don't put them together to make an arquebus or caliver?

That fancy plate armor, by the way, was mostly an early Renaissance thing, not so much medieval. At that point guns existed but were simply not reliable enough to be used extensively in warfare.

Best move: organize the duels/challenges between dorfs and drow so that a second (still owned by a fa/tg/uy) drow interferes rather than just having the first drow throw the match every time. The pseudo-politicking will make them trust us more, in a metagame aspect. Mmnyes.

>checks out Registration Thread page 3
>JESUS FUCK THATS ONLY ONE CHARACTER
>Scroll down to end
>See snippet of post. Mod ostensibly doing his job, but also messing with the guy talking sense about berserking.

I don't know if I have the testicular fortitude to keep from raging long enough to pull this off, /tg/. I'm out, if only so I don't jeapordize the mission with my RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGE.

>>8628530
Join us anyway. It will deflect suspicion from the others.

My traditional dorf, Tunnelwrath MacWarmountain, wants in on this. He's willing to forgo most of his awesome. However, I think I need a new first name for him, if only so they suspect nothing. Does anyone have the dwarf name generator handy?

>>8628590
Anvilarms Hammerkok will join you.

>>8628518
We aren't a super-organized, civilized race in their eyes. We're the remnants from when drow were still evil. We see them as colonialists. We don't need any drow on the other side to maintain a facade, we're going to basically be considered antagonists anyway. Lets play the "evil" guys. We will need political strong-arms among us, though, but only after we retake a surface fortress. Our knowledge/near immunity to poison and ability to use gunpowder will strike fear enough into the Drow.

>>8628587
BUT... BUT...

>Berserking is not an advantage. It causes someone to give in to their anger, making them attack in an either unpredictable but sloppy way or a enraged but simple way. Either way, any skilled fighter will find it laughably easy to parry, deflect, and beat such a person. There is a reason that people taunt others in a fight. Berserking does not make you immune to pain or damage. Furthermore, controlling your rage, or your anger, means to not succumb to it. Please avoid Berserking in future characters.

THATS A GODDAMN MOD'S QUOTE

PIC FUCKING RELATED

>>8628514

I'm afraid I do not have that (or any) DT comic saved, but I do remember an anon posting it earlier.

Pic is technically WH dwarves, but it's Dorfy enough.

>>8628616
Yeah.. I believe my reaction was something akin to weeping for the memory of my Nordic ancestors, and then beginning to be consumed by rage, myself.

>>8628432
Grabbed this from the other thread earlier.

>>8628514
This comic relief character got hit on the head by a cannonball.

>>8628616
We just have to give them a real-life example. Don't treat them as stupid, treat them as misinformed.

The actual fit of madness the berserker experienced was referred to as bärsärkar-gång ("going berserk"). This condition has been described as follows:

This fury, which was called berserkergang, occurred not only in the heat of battle, but also during laborious work. Men who were thus seized performed things which otherwise seemed impossible for human power. This condition is said to have begun with shivering, chattering of the teeth, and chill in the body, and then the face swelled and changed its colour. With this was connected a great hot-headedness, which at last gave over into a great rage, under which they howled as wild animals, bit the edge of their shields, and cut down everything they met without discriminating between friend or foe. When this condition ceased, a great dulling of the mind and feebleness followed, which could last for one or several days.

Right on Wikipedia. Sources of it trace to either psychological conditions/triggers or SHROOMZ.

>>8628616
Okay, I have a mission for you:

Do some research on the actual Berserkers of old Nordic tradition. Put together a sober, serious, and well-written report on it, citing valid sources (NOT WIKIPEDIA) and showing that there is historical precedent for the berserker stereotype, and that they WERE effective in combat.

I do not believe for a moment that this would cause him to renege the point he tried to make. No sir, it should only cause him to post more rage-inducing and mind-boggling justification for why the perfect mary-sue negrelves are superior to everything ever. This will serve as fuel for our rage in the times to come.

That's right, soldier. I'm sending you out to get some gas.

>>8628616
Those faggots don't understand the concept of retard strength. Bezerking is like that, 'cept better!

>>8628733
Perhaps the woman featured here isn't inexperienced whatsoever - she's one of the highest ranking clan members and is the leader of the Highland Raiders.

>>8628758
That doesn't change the fact that she's effortlessly blocking cannon balls like blowing a gnat out of the air.

>>8628250
Find some way to make a crossbow that uses gunpowder to propel reinforced bolts. A dorfen bolter, pretty much. Light the fuse, send a small rocket hurtling towards your enemy.

>>8628775
Oh, and the *INITIAL* ambush, which would've caused the most damage, did nothing but cosmetic injuries. A few cuts and scratches.

thanks for the image, privateer press.

>>8628737
>>8628735
Idea:

A Drow who isn't perfect and is given to fits of rage.

Betcha Berserking magically gets approved!

>>8628775
I read up on the setting a bit. Drow and other fae, when coming together, form a mana 'pool' from which they can draw mana for spells, such as the blocking one in those pictures.

The conclusion is that Drow are weak alone, but strong in prepared groups.

>>8628795
Actually, there is an *incredibly* demon corrupted clan that *does* use berserkers.

... Except the only berserker we've seen so far has been a warrior philosopher and the most peaceful member of its clan.

I'm actually *looking forward* to seeing him freak out.

>>8628789
The trick isn't to aim for the Drow, either, it's to aim for the fortress. We're crafty with our hands as Dwarves. Drow can block cannonballs, but they can't block the fortress collapsing on top of them.

>>8628795
Give Berserking to Sandwich.

It works. Perfectly.

>>8628829
Deus Ex MaGICALLY REINFORCED COLLAPSE-PROOF STOnia

>>8628799
Except while you can say that they use mana pooling for the second image, it's very clearly only the leader woman for the third.

>>8628775
Contact fuses. Cannonball hits something, it explodes instantly. This includes somebody's fist.

Also, shrapnel shells. Gas shells. Repeating crossbow loaded with poisonous bolts. And so on.

>>8628829
I'm more afraid that we're looking at some WIZARD DID IT moments, and suddenly drow are latent psykers and they hold a fortress together with their mind as the place gets blown to shit.

>>8628845
There are drow behind her. One person can draw from the entire mana pool.

Also I don't think we should be instantly assuming they'll pull out godmode/powerplay on us. Their rules cite specifically against it, and we should give them a chance.

I love you /tg/. Take me, hold me in your arms and never let go.

>>8628846
This is all assuming that they'll let us advance the storyline. I'm guessing we're going up against Games Workshop levels of STORYLINE STAGNATION.

>>8628844
Actually, the Drow actually have a safeguard against anything that'd remotely damage their caverns even the slightest, making caveins impossible.

>>8628886
Well.

There is only one thing left to do.

EXTERMINATUS.

>>8628898
inb4 lol they band together to cure virus bombz

>>8628898
Actually, there's also another thing.

Draining out the "culture pools" shown in the image should help with starvation.

Sandwich the drow is a must. Maybe also paladin and drow-chan.

Also, general dorfen badassery.

>>8628886
>fish
>CARP

>>8628886
I think, logically, gunpowder in large quantities could do a GREAT deal of damage. I'll let you know how character creation goes on the morrow.
>>8628904
The only reason remaining Dwarven territories haven't been conquered yet is... brace for it... they are centralized in toxic areas.

>Phoenix' Eye:
>South of Raveran, not far from the road leading to Chel'el'Sussoloth, lies the lava lake Phoenix' Eye. The caves around the lake are dangerous, as the lake often floods, and to the eyes of a Drow the area is much like a real-life version of hell. Rumour has it something lives within the molten rock, but these rumours have never been substantiated.

SHALL WE EMBARK, GENTLEMEN?

YES/YES

>trying to incite a raid

son, I am disappoint

>>8628941
And we shall call it... KUGANOSAN

>>8628941
We'd probably have to make our own thread where we're humming digging dirges for several pages before we'd be allowed to get anywhere near the lava pool only to be thwarted by the MASTERFUL DROW RACE

>>8628941
Maybe we'll find the HFS as well!

Molten Core?!

>>8628941
We'll need to develop Dwarven names for things, because Drow titles are tongue-twisters (Chel'el'Sussoloth, seriously?). Chel'el'Sussoloth could be The Furnace, for instance.

>>8628076

Need to make Brohammad, Brophet of the Bro-ken Hammers. He gathers those dorfy enough to form a Band of Brothers, build the dorfy-est fort, then huddle in there and just dare them to try anything.

>>8628941
Another choice piece of real-estate:

>Vloz'Raveran ruins:
>Once a peaceful mining outpost, then for a short while an architecturial monstrosity of typical Vloz'ress design, the structure now lies in ruin, blocking the only known entrance to the mines below. Occasionally strange sounds can be heard coming from the mines, and noone knows what might be left down there. The Kyorl'solenurn are responsible for razing the fortress, and the only structure left standing is a small altar commemorating those drowussu lost to them beneath the tons of stone.

We've got Mines, and we've got Magma...

NOW ALL WE NEED IS SOLID BOOZE.

>>8628941
FUCKING YES. I hope it has demons.

Dwarves Enslaving Demons.

>>8628789
See the problem there is not being dorfy enough. They've got gunpowder, they've got cannons, they've got poison gas they're acclimated to and the drow aren't.

Done right the whole setup wasn't to shoot drow with the guns. Draw them into place with light cannon fire you know they can bullshit magic their way past. Then lay down heavy gas, pull out your forces and blow set charges and bring the fucking cavern down on top of them. You can excavate out the corpses later. By clearing the cavern with a re-directed magma tube.

Open up dorf fort and generate a bunch of names. Easy enough.

>>8628962
fa/tg/uys, fa/tg/uys, calm down. Don't assume that they're godmodders for their own sake and my sanity. We can question their RP reasons for traveling around in Dwarven territory when A. they have no way to enter it without suffocating and B. Drow have other, more prominent threats at hand (and in-party conflict). Although some events in the story are played for laughs, I'm guessing there are serious conflicts going on with them that don't involve Dorfs. We'll strike them well.

>>8628961
>>8628941
>Urist McDrowHate is taken with a fae mood!

>>8628941

Who would dare fight DORFS if they lived, nay, THRIVED in the place that the insidious white haired black skinned virus consider to be their vision of Hell?

The answer? ....Orks

I'm totally up for this. It'll take me a while to read through everything and get a character set up.... and I gotta walk my dog... but keep this shiz alive guys! I'm looking forward to DORFS DORFS DORFS.

>>8629047

Anon, you clever, beautiful, conniving bastard you, it's perfect.

>>8629035
Here's how it works:

We can't walk into threads without permission.
If we generate our own active thread, they would eventually fall on our heads like buzzards and vultures. Also, the character registration takes *ages* for them to acknowledge. We'd be waiting for days before we'd get an accepted/rejected response. By then, we'd all have lost interest.

>>8629060
Hey, Warp, be ready for this Friday. Wild Cards.

So, are we making this Roleplay site into Warhammer Fantasy Battle?

>>8629060
Oh shit, Fumbles, you're joining in too?

Carol/Weaver here.

STRIKE THE EARTH
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6FXeupOp04

>>8629102

I, a nameless Anonymous would be more than willing to join on this most worthy of expeditions. Since. You know. It rules.

>>8629081
Ohshi- forgot about that man. Not gonna be able to do it, little sisters birthday part has been organized for that day.

>>8629060
Well shit. I'd be up for this as well. The only question is how are we going to organize this?

Remember, /tg/ gets shit done

>>8629071
Fuck that I'm down for the long haul. The payoff could be nothing short of beautiful if done right.

>>8629125

Agreed.

Right.

EVERYONE.

MAKE AN ACCOUNT ON THE DROWTALES FORUM.

POST YOUR ACCOUNT NAMES HERE.

>>8629119
S'okay. We'll work something out =D

A bit off topic but about op's pic.

I would play the fuck out of a Cube Warrior.

Okay. So we all need to fill certain areas. Eat "plump helmets" and hate fish. (If a drow offers you fish throw a fit.) Refer to their women as males. (They have the muscles and the power, ergo we see them as the males.) Anything else? And I've gotta run soon. It'll be too dark for my dog to see the ball.

>>8629160
AHAHAHAHAHA

No.

We mustn't all make an account RIGHT NOW. It might draw suspicion, depending on their average new user per day ratio.

>>8629004
http://wiki.drowtales.com/index.php/Clans
Useful, USEFUL information.

The only remaining guardians around that place are likely leftover Kyorl'solenurn Crusaders. We can pop out of the earth, gut the guards, and set up a camp there. We'll raze the altar for materials (and as a precaution to divination magic) to incite the drow, and start small-scale mining operations on site.

I suggest anyone who wishes to participate sign up on the forum tonight, because you need administrator approval to post, and they probably won't be online until mid-afternoon PST.

>>8629177

Some need to make drows in the mix so it doesn't look like a flood of dwarfs.

Then we can use these drows as delicious victims.

>>8629179
The problem I'm thinking about is just that they will conjure up some horseshit reason to investigate the area once they read about our activity.

Uhhhhhh... favorite character... did any of the dwarves have names? Otherwise what's the blueberry's name again?

>>8629179
Account name is Reiiama, character name is Urist Budgethammer.

>>8629167
If they get inside the fortress, they're knee deep in cats everywhere. If they go wandering off, they find the butcher's workshop. Where he's butchering cats and kittens by the armload.

>>8629200
I just told them the honest truth: None, never read the comic. Don't need to lie. This is an honest troll-raid.

SUGGESTION.

At a later date, Orcs need to grow in number. First have the orcs and dorfs at each other's throats. Eventually a tenuous, secret alliance to take down the Drow THEN have an epic clash to see who claims all the spoils.

>>8629200
Liriel.

Guys, are you aware that making our own not-shitty comic would take a fraction of the effort required to raid these fuckers, and that with only a miniscule amount of effort on our part we could become more popular than these guys?

Not that there's anything wrong with getting our troll on but still.

>>8629210
But I *have* read the comic. Back before he decided re-drawing the last 30 chapters was a good idea. My faves are the merc dwarves, Blueberry and the Drider tailor. But I'm terrible with names.

>>8629198
If we kill them, they'll likely come, and we'll hit-n-run. Dorfs are few in number in comparison to Drow, and they know this. We use sinkhole traps, gunpowder explosives, cannon, and sentries to see them before they come. Shields are a must against elven arrows.

>>8629222
That'd be very difficult to do.

Do we have the effort to make a daily webcomic on par with *that*?

>>8629214
Counting your chickens before they hatch. Drow are the dominant surface race, and wiping them all out would be nigh impossible.

>>8629222
We could take screenshots of Dorf Fortress running Stone Sense and we'd make a better comic, really.

We just want to MAIMBURNKILL some elves.

I'm in for the long haul, but I'm already pushing the limits of my endurance by not sleeping. Will somebody please post their forum name to serve as a contact so I don't accidentally PM somebody who isn't in on the scheme?

Account Name: Fumbles
I'll be a dwarf by the name of Fumbles McFumble.
>>8629219
Blueberry right? Thanks.
>>8629102
Hey Weaver. Let's get our dwarf on!

ACTIVATING NAMEMAGE. ROLLING CASTE NAMES.

<< Caverndelver Anvilsplitter Cavernmasher Eartharm Hammerrender Oathsmith Rockkiller Shieldcutter Trollrender

You also need some Paladins down there SMITING THE UNDERDARK!!

Or do they have something against Paladins too?

>>8629257
My forum name is "Allotheism".

If you are not registering now, send your name to fetid@live.co.uk when you do.

I gotta go off to bed. I'll see you bros tomorrow. Hope it'll be fun, I'm looking forward to this event.

>>8629268
Drow have Paladins aswell. It seems they're the new humans. 50% good 50% evil. (And Grey elves are pretty much all paladins aren't they?)

Bonus Gofur. Account name, Bonus Gofur.

>>8629268
They have something against paladins, yes.

Dwarfs, humans and orcs cannot use any form of magic whatsoever.

The closest thing we have to magic at our disposal is gunpowder.

>>8629282
They're all CREATURES OF DARKNESS

SMITE AND CLEAVE

There needs to be some sort of Holy Crusade against them.

If we all sign up now, its probably going to send up massive red flags.

Spread it out over 2-3 days, since we're going to be doing this quietly. Waves of 5-8 people should do the trick.

>>8629292
DIVINE POWER ISN'T MAGIC

IT IS THE BLESSINGS OF THE GODS

>>8629303
Whatever, we're not allowed to use it, it'll send up red flags and you'd get banned from the RP.

We've got to do this the old fashioned way.

>>8629167
Dorfs don't really care about gender except when it comes to fucking. While their women do in fact tend to have DOSE TITS, DAT ASS and DEM HIPS, it's all buried underneath the luxuriant beards (or if they don't). Other alternative for gender stuff is something like the more enlightened Discworld dorfs.

After all, DF women are just as badass as DF men.

>>8629311

beat them at their own game with their own rules. With masses upon masses of Dorfs.

>>8629324
But thats the point. We should slip up and call males female and females male. BECAUSE we don't pay much attention to gender. We'll get it right every now and again... but they all look the same. Stupid blackfaces.

We have to be Dorfen Communists.

Think about it: we're a small band of people who need to work together for the good of all and who try to prevent the appearance of the Dorfen Economy, plus we're heading to their forums to SPREAD THE REVOLUTION! against the mary sue faggotry there.

>>8629350

I like the way you think.

>>8629324
Like the legendary tale of I-forget-her-name where she charged into battle with her baby in her arms and used it to surf over a hallway of spike traps and then as a shield in combat?

>>8629311
I must say, that's buttfuckingly retarded. It's like they've never even heard of the mythos--hell, it wasn't even until 3rd Edition came out that any non-humans could be Paladins at all.

Oh well, wave on wave of mundane dwarf it is.

Fuck it guys we're dorfs with gunpowder lets line battle this shit. Cannons massacre them at range and volleys of musket fire when they get in range then go all dorfy on them with our axes. Should win all the time due to superior firepower and military tatics.

Also, if they get inside the fortress, we should have a corridor where the roof is open to the sky, with a lever at the end. The drow enter the room, and the dwarf waves and them, and pulls the lever. Then the floor snaps up, and sends them flying back out of the fortress. Right back into the magma.

>>8629292
Wait. Humans and Dwarves can't use magic, at all?

What the fuck is the justification for this?

>>8629391
No.

Drow can block cannonballs with their mana. You know that the player character Drow are strong enough to deflect cannonballs.

Hell, even the stealthy ambushers got their butts handed to them. Besides, they already showed in the comi-- oh, sorry, MAGNA - that Drow mana projectiles that are instantly generated are far superior to silly dwarf cannons.

If we want to do this properly, we need to be careful. Very careful.

>>8629391

And we have gunpowder, we can make guns. What's to stop us from making bigger guns? That tri-barrel rifle is only a crafty dwarf away.

>>8629391
Wait I just thought of something. Fuck all what I previously said..... wait for it....
GUNAXES! We should be unstoppable.

>>8629415
Anything that is not fae cannot use magic.

Fae include elves and driders.

Humans lack auras, so do dwarfs and orcs. The only benefit to this is that they can't be possessed by demons or detected by aura detection magic.

Otherwise, they're as vulnerable to it as ever.

>>8629429

Or maybe the cannon balls could just explode on impact for some dorf-science reason.

>>8629422
Skirmish it then. Lure them into the toxic areas where they'd have trouble fighting and concentrating then start and attrition war on home turf.

GUYS.

We can't go around inventing our own shit, we'll be thrown out before you can blink.

The only projectiles we have access to are shoulder-mounted cannons. Sure, dwarf satchel charges and *maybe* dwarf landmines (reactive chemical stored in a vial in the middle of a gunpowder satchel charge, when the vial is smashed, reaction, boom) but other than that, we're kind of on our own.

Oh, we also have access to poisonous chemical rocks.

You guys know they'll just godhax you guys to death, right?
If you try to be crafty they'll pull a "our perfectly honed Drow senses will not be beaten by tricks from dirty dwarves" and render you impotent.
Or "lol no, I dodged"

>>8629470

We are indeed fighting an uphill battle. How many Drow are there on the board to begin with? Do we even have the numbers to compete?

>>8629448
That's stupid. Anyway, I'm all for heaps of poison.

Demons confirmed as existing in the race.

>>8628941

It seems it is our DESTINY to breath new life into Kuganosan, since we probably won't be too bothered by the Daemons. Besides, what the fuck would the drow want with a magma pool they're scared shitless of?

The best bet we have is Sandwich.

That and Sandwich's opposite.

>>8629470
So your saying is really it is just a survival horror for dorfs? The fuckers could cast some bullshit lightfoot spell and run across the mine field unharmed? Still cool with the idea will be starting later on today at 6:00pm gmt +/-0 Britfag out!

>>8629486
The forums are pretty dead, but out activities might make a few ModPCs awaken from slumber.

Be cautious, elegean/tg/uys

>>8629486
Technically, there are *thousands* of Drow.

However, these Drow are spread throughout several years.

Currently, I'd approximate they have about twenty players.

My suggestion is that we start our own thread for the mining outpost we want to conquer and expand ourselves there. Eventually, the thread will attract attention and the elf supremacists will waltz on in.

>>8629483
We must be twice as crafty. We can leave no room for error, for the slightest misstep could spell doom for our entire race.

We must strike hard. We must strike fast.

But most importantly, we must STRIKE THE EARTH.

>>8629483

If all of us join as we've said, and we do take the fight to the drow, and they do god mode us, well.. we could just leave.

I know that sounds like a quitter thing to do, but you have to imagine, even these folk have to get bored of being Mary Sues all the time. They want people they can prevail against. What we have to do is to trip them up in their own character, we have to write them into holes where even they can't justify escape or dodging.

The only way to win is through roleplay and exploitation of their own egos. It doesn't matter how awesome we make ourselves if they godmode, which I hope they don't.

>>8629516
Tucker's Dwarves?

>>8629508
No, it's not that simple.

Here's how you've got to do this.

1. Make a character.
2. Get it confirmed, somehow, by the mods. I'll see if I can create a fairly modest character. This will takes a few days *at least*
3. Join the thread (when it's made).

We should NOT face the drow directly: Such is the path of defeat.

Rather, do nothing to harm them. Simply roleplay out our little mining post, doing no harm to them, and if they attack, defend ourselves. We also need women and children dwarves, so they can helplessly die.

/tg/, I love you guys, but the obvious trolling in this thread will kill this before it starts.

Bro names? Seriously? That's going to get shot down so fast it's not even funny. You don't have to take this shit seriously, but you have to put on a facade of taking it seriously enough that they won't think you're up to no good, started making trouble in their neighborhood.

Make real dorfy names and dorfy backstories that are as authentic as you can make them. If there is demand, I could go over this, but most of you are seasoned roleplayers so no goddamn excuses.

If we want to stage a proper dorfy invasion this shit has to seem authentic. The more authentic it is, and the more we play exactly by the rules (if skirting the line as much as we can) the more successful we will be. If they squelch us for staying inside the lines, they will look like provable asshats and trolling will be successful. If we start obvious shit and go outside the lines before we're even of the ground, we'll be the ones to look like assholes and fission will be mailed.

Make no mistake, there will be no fuck ups.

Shall we archive this, or just count on word of mouth?

>>8629540
I'll be roleplaying a female dwarf who was enslaved, bought by the Sarghress and put into the "War Meat" legion, only to flee in the middle of a skirmish after some veterancy.

>>8629548

He speaks the truth.

Our secret weapon against the drow:

Step 1: Find a unicorn

Step 2: Replace most of its body with cybernetics

Step 3: Point it at the drow

Step 4: HARMONY

>>8629548
This is correct.

WE HAVE TO BEAT THEM AT THEIR OWN GAME.

btw who will I contact for further cordination after my account is activated?

It has been a while since I've /tg/ so galvanized for something.

I'll be joining the Third Wave of joiners (sometime friday/saturday), so keep the dream alive, my friends.

Also, what are Humans like in this setting?

>>8629311
So.. dwarves, etc can't use magic. Fine, fine. We've got engineering on our side. Also, I'm really thinking there's GOT to be some provision for being so unmagical you're basically a giant mana-sink. Or some sort of substance that interferes with mana that dwarfs, etc can handle COMPLETELY SAFELY because they're not magical but it fucks the sparkly magical ash-tits right in their mystical cornholes. Motherfuckin' drow kryptonite, and we're Lex LooseOre.

>>8629577

As far as we can tell, we're bronze-age primitives in awe of the godliness that is drow magicks, yo

>>8629577

I had thoughts similar, though I believe eventually the Orcs and Humans can be brought into this plan. All working autonomously, but all eventually unifying temporarily to deal with the Drow plague. Return the Drow to a minority while the other races fall into warring like the good ol' DnD days.

>>8629571
Please send an email to fetid@live.co.uk with your name.

Once I am accepted - and once the rest of you are - I will send you the list of names so you can all PM each other.

If anyone else has created an account and not posted their name, please say so.

Current list:
Fumbles
Reiiama
Bonus Gofur
Allotheism
Voynich

>>8629581
>Lex LooseOre
I fucking love you

>>8629577
Humans are filthy good for nothing peasants who are basically killed off like cattle.

>>8629584
Well, fuck that. It's time for a motherfucking IRON age up in this bitch. Knightly Orders from the surface coming down in a massive conquering raid

>>8629581
>Lex LooseOre.
Someone better fucking use this.

>>8629593
>>8629552
Archive this shit. Word of mouth is good. Archiving would be better.

>>8629604

I'm not worthy.

>>8629600
Technically, they do have Iron, I suppose.

Their technology appears to be around the 700 period, except with 12th-15th century stone castles.

>>8629581
demons, they can only attack things that can use magic. dwarves are immune because they can't use magic, ironically you need magic to get demons.

also, are they immune to cannonballs, or just 9 cannonballs?

>>8629593


>>8629548 here
I have registered an account as well, "Gallentean", and awaiting approval.
I have set up a new e-mail alias to use for this, as well, concord@fastmail.us and I'd be happy to help with directing and organizing this to some extent.

>>8629581
Dwarves, having no magic, cannot be possessed by Demons.

We're going to put the U in Urist Daemonhammer, if I have anything to say about it.

>Fae

Where's mah Cold Iron?

>>8629618
>Dig too deep
>Don't give a shit
>Bros with demons
>Or, if you're a lady, friendly tea with succubi

>>8629616
Excellent, good.

Humans will have the numbers to bolster Dorf ranks. Need to get some Orc and Half-Orcs in there too.

I say while you're doing a Dorf Defensive, it's time for an Orc Offensive, starting with a respectable Orc what not like da ashy dames.

>>8629641
http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?order=chapters&id=997&overview=1&cover=1&pa
ge=1&check=1
http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?order=chapters&id=1001&overview=1&cover=1&p
age=1&check=1

These are the best representations of high-level human technology that I have available.

Otherwise, they live in shitty little dark age hovels and drown in pestilence.

>>8629559
This is a *Iron Unicorn Barding*. It menaces with spikes of iron. It is engraved with a dwarf and a unicorn. The dwarf is cheering. The unicorn is running.

The Emperor Protects.

See you on the other side.

Also, for fuck's sake - before you make a character, *read the comic*.

Otherwise, your knowledge of the setting will be completely fucked up, you'll foul up and be kicked out.

>>8629663

That is a hefty burden the BIGORC faces. I'll do it, by many of the filthy orc gods I will.

>>8629658
Oh well that's not too bad at all. Humans could outnumber them 30 to one.

>Otherwise, they live in shitty little dark age hovels and drown in pestilence.

Dark age peasants were fucking vicious . They would eventually become the knights an shit that would plunder all of Europe and the Middle East during the crusades.

Gentleman, we need to rally angry peasants.

Cold Iron. Use it. Unless they conveniently ignore that too.

>>8629688
They'll just discount them as nothing and cut through them like a hot knife through butter, as they are colossal faggots who believe Drow are the best anything ever.
Fandom is not something to be underestimated.

>>8629676
Except there's also a Black Death going around.

http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?order=chapters&id=947&overview=1&cover=1&pa
ge=1&check=1
http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?order=chapters&id=949&overview=1&cover=1&pa
ge=1&check=1
http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?order=chapters&id=950&overview=1&cover=1&pa
ge=1&check=1
http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?order=chapters&id=951&overview=1&cover=1&pa
ge=1&check=1

So, what's to stop a group of dorfs, galvanized by the bleak situation they find themselves in, from capturing, rather than killing, any drow who fall in battle, and brainwashing them into loyal shocktroops?

I figure, Magic + Technology > Magic, right?

We could incase it in a big block of mary-sue steel, and cart it around like a magic-missile cannon.

MARY SUE TALES

>>8629688
No, John. You are the angry peasants.
And then John was a human guerrilla.

>>8629694
They ignore that.

They're Fae, but that carries no disadvantages (other than aural detection and possession) in this setting.

>>8629700
.... We capture a drow fire mage. Stick them in a box with their hands in a stock pointing out the front of the box on wheels. Dwarves sit behind this drow and threaten/prod/flay the mage till it shoots bursts of hot death in front of it.

>>8629716
>Drow
>Losing
They'd go HUHWHAT and the firemage would bend the fire around to kill the dorfs.

>>8629700
Dwarfs are too primitive to have any efficient brainwashing methods. Drow methods are by far superior, therefore they are immune to dwarf methods.

Also, we actually *do* have a handful of possible Fae allies in this. The ony Drow in the setting who are actually cool. The "Xuile'solen". They're Drow who live in the darker parts of the Underworld and have lost the ability to see. As a result, they've become pretty brutal savages.

>>8629716
Nah. That's what magma is for. Delicious, delicious MAGMA.

>>8629737
http://forums.drowtales.com/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=13108

More information on the Xuile'solen.

>>8629737
So they're like Miraluka from Star Wars?

>>8629737
.... FUCK YES. Keep them caged up and fed, when enemies approach we let them loose and have some dwarf runners run away from them and slip into secret passages. (They're only there to lead the blind drow into the attacking drow, where a brawl can begin.)

>>8629716
I'm thinking more we take the Sandwich route with our turned drow. Maybe Sandwich herself, in her paladin-ness turns out to be fuckawesome at defensive magics and dispelling. She levels the playing field. Takes away their natural, magical advantage.

Maybe it's not even a conscious thing for her. She's been raised to be so dwarfy that she going around subconsciously counterspelling everything in her range.

>>8629737
I highly suggest someone make drow of this tribe, to throw off our scent all the while aiding us

>>8629724
This. You guys are forgetting they think Drow are capable of anything and everything.
They'll kill you guys off and this'll be forgotten in a couple days. Nevertheless it should be fun while it lasts.
I do like when /tg/ gets its shit together for stuff like this but this is an impossible feat we're talking here.

To summarize, it seems to me that the plan of attack is thus:

We will register seemingly authentic dwarfy characters. These characters will all be "Free Dwarves" or free peoples of other races such as humans, orcs, half-orcs, and goblins, though the primary focus of players should be on dwarves.
These characters will not be warriors, for the most part. They may have combat and survival skills, as is the necessity in such a harsh place as the streets of Chel'el, but we are tradesman foremost. Craftsdwarves, ironmongers, cooks, miners, managers. Dwarves who get shit done.

>Phoenix' Eye:
>South of Raveran, not far from the road leading to Chel'el'Sussoloth, lies the lava lake Phoenix' Eye. The caves around the lake are dangerous, as the lake often floods, and to the eyes of a Drow the area is much like a real-life version of hell. Rumour has it something lives within the molten rock, but these rumours have never been substantiated.

This is where we plan to embark. A hazardous place for the Drow, and far enough from their precious clan city to avoid attention too soon, conveniently safe from the meddling ways of the Val.
The whispers shall go out in the streets of Chel'el, calling all free non-elven people to embark, against risk and certain peril, to seek freedom, freedom from the gutter, freedom from being trodden upon by the dark-skinned overlords.

This, gentlemen, is how it begins. Not with trumpets, and not with promises of gold and silver, but with the quiet whisper of freedom.

Strike the earth.

>>8629745
If humans were superior to them in every way and if they were degenerated humans, then yes, they are.

I love you TG

Goody, Orcs are valued as cannon fodder and two legged dogs by the drow. At least they got THAT right.

And it's the perfect reason to leave them and head for the dorfy promised land.

Somebody already tried this.

One of the mods stated that Drow have armor better than modern day battle armor just because of magic, and each individual soldier has it and each one has hundreds of years of experience, and if you disagree, then you're biased.

>>8629759
Don't forget some drow that are either
A) Sympathetic to 'lower creatures'
B) Not Mary Sue Perfect and would have trouble fighting said 'lower creatures'

>>8629779
We're not trying to face them in man-on-man combat, that's suicide.

We're playing tunnelers and ambushers, poisoners and demolition experts.

Face-to-face combat against Drow is suicidal.

Facing any drow in this setting is suicide

>>8629759
So basically, what we're doing here is roleplaying as timid dwarf peasants with souls and feelings and cares. Love, morals. Things to cry about and things worth dying for. We RP going about our lives being dorfy, and wait for THEM to Mary Sue against US.

>>8629759
Note: the only available characters on that list are humans, orcs and dwarfs.

Also, we should allow for some of the Sightless (Xuile'solen) to join our merry band. They're cool guys.

Have we got an Archive yet?

>>8628616
These are people who think that double-ended swords are practical.

I no longer have access to that forum, so I can't provide direct quotes.

>>8629792
That's the plan.

Wait... we can play Goblins? I thought Orcs and Humans were the only goblin races? I'm still tossing up the idea of whether Fumbles should be an Orc, Human or Dwarf... (Likely Goblin if they DO exist.)

>>8629779

Also, as I mentioned before, they won't screw us over too early, simply because in our fetal form we represent all that makes them feel superior to the other races. It's their time to shine, whether it's to pity us or to scheme.

Hopefully this time we'll be more prepared. This is hardly deep cover anymore. We're joining this and doing our damndest to beat them at their own game, to show them that drow can be overthrown by clever 'lesser' races in sufficient numbers with sufficient intelligence.

They only think the drow are invincible, and if they pull that way too much, their bias becomes apparent. If they let that happen then only the most die hard poster will be disgusted, amused, or both. They lose their chance to have a stable opponent they can 'best' constantly.

We have to get them to write themselves in a corner. Ego is their strength and their weakness, and we must utiilize it.

>>8629809
No goblins, Fumbles. Sorry man.

>>8629779
>>8629786

And we're not even attempting to go to war with them... not for a good while, anyway. We're just setting up a settlement for the oppressed lower races. If the elves come knocking on our door because they want to get up in our faces, we should legitimately have the sympathetic advantage as a group who has thus far been noble and friendly towards one another, despite our varied backgrounds.

When the elves do start to rile some shit up, we will goddamn make them pay. We may not have direct access to magic, but dwarves are builders. We make traps, we make golems, we make weapons that betray the weaknesses of the elves at every turn. We will be the vietcong, but protected by hardened walls of the strongest enchanted metals we can find within the earth.

The longer we go without meeting opposition, the more total our victory.

>>8629809
Hilarious that they call humans "goblins".

And there is not a single in-story sympathetic look at humans, no sir. They just Mary Sue their way through everything.

God son-of-a-damn.

Speaking of my dorf name (which I wasn't), I was thinking of going with Goram Fistvein.

actualy they cannot kill us unles we agree, see http://forums.drowtales.com/viewtopic.php?f=52&t=13949
>Don't kill anyone unless you both agree on it first.

>>8629817
They'll se that and go
>Hurf durf the drow see threw your shitty traps hur dur

>>8629811
>>8629811
>>8629811
Oh god I love this.

>>8629821
Ah. The RP consent rule...this could be interesting.

>>8629724
a;lskfjas

Okay, it's a bit harder then. Maybe some mechanism on the outside has to be continually operated in some overly complex, arcane (unknown to outsiders in general, and "fae" in particular) manner, or the box becomes lethal to whatever is inside?

Like it's steam powered, and utilizes MAGMA and if you don't operate it, it overheats and gets CENTER OF A FUCKING VOLCANODROWHELL hot within a couple of minutes.

Let's see the Drow fuck over its slavemasters now.

>>8629759

For this I could almost consider re-reading drow tales just to be in on it...

>>8629817
>golems
Magic.

>>8629821
>>8629821
>thus ensues an argument about whether your dorfy dorf would be able to survive the battle in the first place, and if you don't agree to be killed in the PM war you are modded out of existence

I am willing to help. I have a long time account over there. Kern knows me because me and a few guys were the reason HE closed the Chat - He won't like me posting over there, if he ever notices.

BUT I am willing to help. I'm in school and the ISP here isn't blocked. Back at my place I won't be able to post, tough. That's why I have to ask for your forum nicknames for me to contact up.

Warning, they may suspect something so you guys may need to take with you some Drow.
There are some rogue ones who hate the other Drow. The majority is composed of the blind ones. The rest are basically Tainted.

>>8629844
Haha, I never thought I'd see D'rizzt as a boon companion.

>>8629817
Correction.

We can't make golems. Those are magical.

We can make PHYSICAL traps. Everything we do cannot be remotely magical whatsoever unless we have some Drow outcasts or Sightless with us.

>>8629853
That would require inventing tech, which dwarves are too dirty to do.

>>8629857
>Create a mostly mechanical golem
>Hire a drow to help tunnel out new areas
>Sh'Eyemen the digger
>Put Drow in unfinished Golem

>>8629844
Names so far:
Fumbles
Reiiama
Bonus Gofur
Allotheism
Voynich
Gallentean
Sarcose

My god /tg/...you impress me...

>>8629851

Ready to get orky with the dorfs. Orcuus is the name.

>>8629844
>tainted

Fuck yeah! For those not in the know, the tainted are basically Drow infested with demons. The main conflict in the Drowtales universe is "Infesting yourself with AIDS is a good idea!" versus "People who are infected with AIDS are monsters undeserving of sympathy!". Seriously. For more on in-universe philosophy, look up the warrior poet style Berserker of that one demon sympathizer clan.

But, and yes I will admit to finding and reading the sidestories, the in-universe representation of the Tainted is that they are "just trying to live and make a home for themselves" while also being "craft and malicious." They are both, at the same time, angsty Mary Sue characters (oh my life is PAIIIINN) and the Cardboard Villains of the entire franchise. They are also Drow, and canonically a credible threat. They are also ALSO detesting of most of the culture they come from and their laws and customs, and therefore capable of being non-fae sympathizers.

And, if they ever let their "seed" (the demon implanted in them) take them over, they can't infect us, because we have no auras, but they can infect a ton of Drow PCs via AIDS-bomb (with RP consent, I imagine).

In short, the perfect allies.

>>8629866
Even in real life, we haven't managed to create a mechanical golem properly yet.

So, no.

That *definitely* won't be allowed.

>>8629866
That would fall under inventing new tech.

>>8629878
Are we allowed to play orks?

>>8629880
But then we wouldn't have non-drow beating anyone. The tainted would be credited with everything.

>>8629880
We don't want to have anything to do with remotely acceptable Drow.

No tainted. Xuile'solen only.

>>8629880
>LexLoosorekeikakudoori.png

>>8629851
... Drizzt...?

Drizzt is a faggot do-gooder. I'm talking bastards and devils here, people who HATE everything with every fiber of their body. They will hate you, but they will hate the Drow who chastised and chased them away from their homes just for the simple fact they are Tainted or were born with the lack of eyes.
Plus, they serve as a good shieldwall for the lovely Dorfs.

>Humans fates are sealed NO MATTER WHAT. What would win in a battle? A bear, or a trout? The bear obviously. The drow are the bear and the human are the trout. They are simply farther down the food chain, end of story. Most of their civilization, as Madea has said, is built upon drow technology, which is incompatible with their species. While yes, Drow tend to be quite backstabbing and murderous at times, they still understand the concept of survival and profit, and Drow won't kill someone if they have nothing to gain from it: Which is more common than stabbing your neighbor. And seeing as the time time it takes for a drow to reach adult hood is equal to about 1-1/2 to 2 generations of humans, the Drow can just plain outlive them, keeping all their experience that would take lifetimes for humans to learn.

This is from a Drow vs Humans thread on their forum, from the very same mod who was bashing the guy who tried to justify Berzerking.

This is a pointless endeavor. We cannot win.

And he keeps saying shit about the 'food chain' and how Drows are on top of it, end of discussion, rocks fall:everyone dies spare the Drow. If you try to advance your technology? He also said the Drow would be able to advance their magic at a faster pace and it would just end if you getting rapped faster.

Note this is all about Humans, but I doubt he would change anything if it came to Dwarfs.

>>8629844
oh hey! i was around when that happened. think it was mostly insane noodle guy that pissed him off. who were you?

Hah-Har, Brothers! Throk Gembeard, Scourge of the Mountainsides and his faithful Ram companion, Tankard, are more than willin to join ye in yer struggles t' overrthrow th' domain of those accursed Drow!

For the golem why don't you say that you "found" an abandoned Imperial one, Drow imperial not Emprah imperial, and rebuilt it and used a sightless drow to pilot it...shenanigans would be had

>>8629844

Speaking of which, this will need to happen early on:
Establish an electoral government.

One of the first things that should happen in the RP is the first group of Dwarves sitting down around a stone table in a meager hut constructed in the light of the magma river. Within, the first dwarves who have decided to form the settlement agree that we cannot fall prey to the corrupt and oppressive method that the elves have used to control their people for generations. We must agree that an electoral system, wherein the mayor is chosen from the people, by the people, a democratic system of election and re-election is clearly established, and the first leader chosen by the members of the council (who it is doesn't really matter, as long as they know what they're getting into). Then the council disbands, and begins the hard work of bringing the site into operation, creating simple fortifications and shelters. The only law of who is allowed to be the mayor (and eventually whatever higher seats are devised) is "No Elves". Elves are welcome, but this settlement must never be compromised by conflict of interest.

>>8629902
Relax. We can do this.

We're not expecting to win in a fair fight whatsoever.

>>8629903
NO. No golems.

None.

They'd call shenanigans, we'd be shut down.

>>8629909
So the plan is we're FUCK YEAH United States of FUCKMERICA rebelling against our evil TAXATION oppressors?

I wonder how the mods would react to /philosophical/ inventions whose process of invention comes about solely through an RP conversation. As in, we progress ourselves philosophically via dialogue.

They'd probably just godmod us back down to dirtmode.

I'll look at tossing together one of those "Sightless" as our inside man & magical support. The description makes them sound a little like Cuddles, which is totally workable. Just replace the long albino hair with some shaved down armygirl stubble and you're set.

Will report back with workup after I've done some research to make it convincing.

>>8629909
C'mon, the elves treat *some* of their kind like absolute dirt.

The Xuile'solen, the Sightless elves. They're savages on the level of the dwarfs, humans and orcs. I wouldn't be surprised to see them working along with each other.

>>8629898
Boy, I really wish computers would come with integrated tazers that are set-off automatically once you get too retarded. You can practically hear that mod fapping.

I got a feeling that this will be us ragin hard and them not noticing anything wrong with their OP Mary-Sue ways to the point that we essentially trolled ourselves. God it will be the Bub round 3 fiasco all over again.

>>8629949
Now, now, a setting where one species is inherently superior to another wouldn't be half-bad if it was well-written. It is entirely possible that Kern could have gone the route of "Humans are weak and inferior, but look how frightened they are, they're just acting out of instinct and we're monsters for treating them this way!" but no, he didn't. It's because he painted Humans, dwarves, et. al. as an /enemy/, and then said "oh by the way they always lose", that we're really doing this.

>>8629899
ING made I'm get pissy. Then he was banned and Dom started getting everyone else mad. I wrote a communicate to Kern with the votes of a few people. In there, there was a plan to improve the Chat and he followed that plan for a while but, in the end, it was too much trouble for him so he just deleted the Chat.

Who am I? I think I'm too recognizable by the mods, there. Plus, I'm known as a trouble-maker so I may jeopardize the whole crew. Who're you?

>>8629894
I'd agree. But see this Anon's post. >>8629880
They are indeed very good and a few of them are VERY rogue and Fae-hating.

>>8629952

Maybe so, maybe so.


But damn, this actually sounds like taking a shitty board and getting something ENJOYABLE out of it. It's a lot easier to portray an oppressed race when they're REALLY oppressed.

Sorry Bub and Bob round 3 fiasco, lol it doesn't work if I forget half the name. Seriously though it's okay if they Godmod us into oblivion but it only works if in doing so they realize how stuck up they are, which they porbably won't thus epic fail on our part.

>>8629952
There are plenty of readers who are raging about the comic's current lack of credible threat to the Drow child-protagonists. Once we get settled in, we need to find sympathizers within the ranks.

>>8629959
...Except thanks to the 'and by the way they always lose', this is completely pointless. You're all wasting your time.

>>8629959
Dwarfs, humans and orcs aren't even the enemy.

They're sideline characters. Their purpose is to show that the only real enemy that the Drow have to fear are themselves.

>>8629976
True. I'd be less raged about all this if it wasn't for the fact that an entire chapter was just devoted to STOMP ON THE LITTLE ANTS AND WE ARE MORALLY SUPERIOR.

We should look up sidestories that may include that berserker dude.

So what? You guys unite all the race and come together to fight the drow?

>>8629997
And then the drow win again.

>>8629998
Obviously.

I'm thinking of making my character a dwarf alchemist. Toxic chemicals and explosive chemicals, one and all. He tried to make a living selling security systems and non-magical fireworks in Chel'el. Sarghress Clan took his wife and blackmailed him into several years of unwilling weapons manufacturing.

Of course, wasn't long until he discovered that they had killed off his wife and the thing sitting in the cell was just a golem with an illusion covering it.

Got pissed, ran off and is looking to make a life free of the corruption of Drow.

http://wiki.drowtales.com/index.php/Troops:Vloz'ress_Berserkers

>Roleplay Recommendations
>No ordinary person would become a Berserker, as becoming one means impending death one way or another. It also means that they must give up their own bodies to a creature of the Netherworld. So, only a few, those who have lost everything or who have a death wish, would want to join them. Being a trained warrior or not doesn't matter; the only requirement is an inner rage against everything.

Keeping in mind that dorfs can't become tainted, and also the only in-universe justification for berserking is LOL DEMON POWER because adrenaline just doesn't exist (fucking seriously).

>>8629998

True, though when/if they do the big fuckover, they'll only have themselves to fiddle with in the dark. As others have suggested, we need the moral highground (Moralfaggin) in order to draw support for our side, and yes, so maybe they'll see that the inferior beings can amount to something.

>>8629976
Can't we simply drop all pretense and use this extreme edition character generator? From what I had the misfortune to read of drowtales, these characters would fit in quite nicely.

>>8629997
No, we're looking to roleplay characters that want to live their lives free of the oppression of the Drow. Perhaps get a little revenge once in a while.

>>8630009
I don't think Sarghress use golem technology, and they are certainly low on the magic tier. Also the Sarghress is Kern's personal little Mary Sue clan so we need to be careful portraying it as anything other than VALIANT KNIGHTS FOR THE PEOPLE.

>>8630029
Dwarfs don't use golem technology either.

I'm talking about basically creating rockets for the Sarghress War Meat to use.

>>8629998
>>8629997

Again, you people fail to see the point. We're not here to fight the drow, we're here to escape the poverty-stricken underclass of the elven caste system. We are here to start a fortress settlement of the free dwarven people, safe from the oppression of the Vals and their meddlesome ways.

We are not here to fight a war, not now, not ever. No player character is allowed to represent the Vals or their clans, because the Vals are "Kern's NPCs", so our only goal is to live our lives peacefully, coping with the problems of trying to create a survivable fortress in the inhospitable caves that surround us.

We're not starting shit. If elf players start shit, we can deal with that in elegant ways that make us look awesome, and make them look like godmodding dicksucks. You think the average Drowtales RPer has read the Art of War? I can think of at least a dozen ways we could defeat incoming players without even fighting. Whatever works, works.

This is a test to see how long we can go before they start acting like the fuckwits we know they are, and when they do, we'll be there to point out how gigantic their fuckwittiness is to everyone watching.

In the meantime, we'll be enjoying ourselves with some awesome freeform DF RP.

>>8630020
Now where did I put that card..
Aha.

She appears to be a normal [woman] even though she dressed like a [gestapo officer] [businesswoman]. This is to draw attention away from the fact that she is half [Japanese]. She is a [secret agent] [created by Nazi scientists during WW2] and she will fight her enemies with her power to [talk to] [regular humans] and [command] [regular humans]. To her friends and enemies she is known as [Cancer] [Tits]. --
Her constant companion is a [mysterious] [over-analytical] [vietnam veteran] who is also her [economic consultant]. Her favourite weapon is a [huge] [steam-powered] [sniper rifle].


Sadly, Cancer Tits isn't really what we need for this particular operation.

Fumbles will be a Freeter. Do to his family legacy he is abnormally unlucky, he loses most jobs he attempts simply because things do not go his way. Like the time he tried working in the blackpowder business.... took him a while to regrow his eyebrows.

>>8630045

Drow die sometimes though. Out in the field. Whose to say that at one point someone couldn't find some of their uber armor? Considering that the Orcs are nomadic tribes for the most part, it wouldn't be unusual for them to scavenge and scrounge for anything that could be of use, or might make a damn spiffy hat.

Even the Mods has to admit that not EVERY SINGLE DROW in the existance of the Drowverse on planet Drow died warm, cozy and surrounded by children. There has to be salvage from any sort of conflict on the surface, hell, even from below the surface. Not that it'd be easy, but it can't be impossible.

Though I suppose a lot of it's toughness comes from magic, huh? Well, it's still a start.

>>8630024
>>8630063
So live a life and try to develop in a society that drow is the Uber Mary Sue?

>>8630071

Talking to humans is a super power these days?
Fantastic.

>>8630063
Honestly, I like this.

Let me help to bring this into further perspective:

Hey guys! Let's all RP dwarves in an oppressed underground society trying to live our lives! We can have interdorf conflicts and intrigue! We can talk about business contracts and ale! This'll be great fun.

The forum? Why, Drowtales, of course!

Everything else that happens is a result of the natural order.

>>8630102
Ah, but cancer tits has Command.

>>8630029
>>8630045
Golems are a powerful weapon of war as they are symbol of power. We're not powerful, we don't have big ass resources. We're not allowed Golems, even if we were Drow.

I am against the DORF ONLY motion. Dorfs have boon, as do much races. Dorfs can live in toxic environment.
But the sightless Drow are savage and, if memory serves well, have claws. The Tainted Drow are acceptable, which would help disguise our true intentions. Even Untainted Drow might join along if the Dorf promise to smash and stop that stupid Vloz who killed his (Wait, DT, it's a her) family.

>>8630092
Gentlemen, it may be hard but we shall do it.

We will make civilization in MarySuetopia

>>8630116
As I understand, the city will be made and run by dorfs, but other races will be tolerated. That is the city's purpose after all, a sanctuary and haven for the outcasts and peasants.

>>8630090
I can hear the mod now:

"While it is highly likely that you would be able to find salvageable Drow technology (including armor) from old battlefields, wearing Drow armor is out of the question because 1) it wouldn't fit and 2) dwarves can't possibly reverse engineer it for its physical properties. They do not have that technology and they are simply not intellectually developed enough to figure out how."

Reverse engineering would be godmodded as inventing new tech, and there's no way we can find dwarf-fitted platemail.

I'm sure there's some Mary Sue Biology reason humans can't use their platemail, as well.

>>8630116
Xuile'solen - the Sightless drow - only.

Dwarfs, humans and orcs are welcome to come along too.

We should accept ferals as well - as long as their players don't make them stupidly fucking furry.

>>8630116
>wait, DT, it's a her

Going back to a point made wayyyyy up in the thread, I say our Dwarven society is enlightened as far as gender representation goes. There's nothing in the canon that says our women or our men are oppressive bastards.

Amusingly, we call female Drow males because we just don't care/are too stupid to be able to tell the difference. OUR CANONICAL IGNORANCE IS OUR STRENGTH.

All this time spent in Mary Sue land is making my head spin, to the point where I look for god modding everywhere now.

In the end, we'll beat them at their own game if we do this right.

What's the ultimate proof of a character (or in this case a race) being a mary sue? When they can overcome their disadvantages at the drop of a hat if it resolves any problems they are presented with.

The biggest problem the drow have? Their culture doesn't think highly of "lesser races"... so a problem arises when a bunch of people playing these "lesser races" start their own society and prove that they're a capable, friendly, ethical people. If the drow follow their flaws and attack us, it places them in an ambiguous moral situation!
Oh no! We can't have our sues maybe possibly looking to be a little in the wrong, what to do what to do...

Oh, of course, how silly of me. They'll completely forget their racial bias at the drop of a hat to recognize how "fair and honest" our people are, becoming friendly and loving neighbors who stand on an even higher moral plateau because they've "forgiven" us for being the dirty shit-eating peasants that we are, and had the "charity" to let us have our little democracy.

Either they break their sue code and look like true, honest-to-god villains (reverting to classic drow and vindicating us), or they sue-the-fuck-up and play nice-nice with us so that they look better, proving that dwarves and humans really aren't lesser at all. And now there's a non-canon dwarf fort outside of Chel'el (vindicating us, if less troll-like).

I'm tempted to sign up and make a berserker drow based on this chap to be an inside man against the mary sues, seems far too hilarious not to.

Two possible locations:

>Vloz'Raveran ruins:
>Once a peaceful mining outpost, then for a short while an architecturial monstrosity of typical Vloz'ress design, the structure now lies in ruin, blocking the only known entrance to the mines below. Occasionally strange sounds can be heard coming from the mines, and noone knows what might be left down there. The Kyorl'solenurn are responsible for razing the fortress, and the only structure left standing is a small altar commemorating those drowussu lost to them beneath the tons of stone.

>Phoenix' Eye:
>South of Raveran, not far from the road leading to Chel'el'Sussoloth, lies the lava lake Phoenix' Eye. The caves around the lake are dangerous, as the lake often floods, and to the eyes of a Drow the area is much like a real-life version of hell. Rumour has it something lives within the molten rock, but these rumours have never been substantiated.

We have two choices:
1) An already partially prepared fortress, with resources available, as it is a mine. However, demons.
2) A source of magma, but nothing's prepared. Also the hazard of hitting an underground magma stream when we try to dig.

>>8630176
>However, demons.

We are immune to demons because of our lack of auras. The only demons that can harm us are ones that have taken over their host and turned it into some sort of eldritch abomination. As far as my understanding goes.

>>8630176
Vloz'Raveran.
AKA RavenHolm. (Seriously what kind of dwarf or human is even gonna TRY saying the Drow ' bullshit.)

>>8630193
You're correct.

Problem is, there are demonhosts in the tunnels. So they can harm us.

If I wanted, I'd dig up my thesis on berserking throughout history (almost every single fucking culture has some example) to cockslap Mr. Adrenaline Doesn't Exist.

>>8630197
RavenHolm?

Screw that. We need to come up with our own name.

Personally, I suggest HAMMERDOWN.

>>8630205
Dragon Veins.

I love how out of all the boards TG is the one who somehow takes the most petty of concerns in the history of concerns and turns it into the equivalent of the final battle between robot jesus and chuck norris...... I love you TG

>>8630202
I know, I know. So annoying. And Parry/Deflect. I'm sorry but the whole point of berserking is sure you're unskilled but you can't be parried when you put your all into an axe. (Seriously, most cases their rapiers and shit would just bend/shift under the force and weight. Doesn't even need to break the sword.)

Someone really ought to clue in /co/ as to our machinations here once this gets a little steam going.
Being a controversial webcomic, I'm sure some of them who have cross-content interest in /tg/ will hop aboard the dorf-train.

And as we all know, they be our /co/mrades.

>>8630218

Yeah, hard to parry a 33 lbs axe with a shittytar

>>8630197
So, character traits we have so far:

1) Switch up genders when we interact with Drow and call it an accident "Yes, sir! Tha' 'twould be a foin purchase!" "It is MA'AM, you filthy Dwarf pest. I should eradicate your entire species for this slight." "D'oh, forgive me ignorance, madam! Ye see, moi soight ain't wot it used t'be, and Aye'm used to Dwarven women tha' look just like the men!" (forgive my shitty Dorf accent. I'll refine it later)

2) Ascribing Dorfy names to replace stupid Drow names for everything, with a conspicuous absence of apostrophes.

>>8630213
/tg/ gets shit done

>>8630228
But they can do it because Drow have strength due to MAGIC and their weapons are indestructible due to MAGIC.

>>8630213

>>8630238
Yeah. Also, the Val's are instead called clans, and named by their colours or their important traits.

Red Clan is Sarghress, High Clan is Sharen, etc.

Chel'el is the Furnace, or the Pillar.

>>8630176
I'm suggesting Phoenix's Eye. We build a fortress into the cavern wall near there.

>>8630218
you don't try to parry a berserker, you run away from and pelt with arrows. If you're drawn into melee with a berserker you're dead and if you're skilled he's dead too.

The issue with fighting a berserker is not adrenaline or retard strength, it's the fact that this guy just wants to kill you and cares nothing about surviving killing you. Skill with weapons means breaking through defences, not breaking through aggressions and counters mean little if you're staggering from each strike parried/dodged, which you will be doing if the berserker has ever wielded a weapon before in his life

Careful with the 'accidental' insults as most Drow would use that as reason enough to wipe you out and they would totally feel justified doing it

>>8630268
They're already called clans. The Vals are a rank in the clan.

Regardless, we can easily come up with multiple nicknames for each one. No reason to be uniform about it. This is dorfy motherfuckin' gutter slang we're talkin here. We're supposed to be uncivilized, let's act like it and shove it up their noses!

>>8630205
Seconding Hammerdown

Fuck yeah Cancer Tits! She is the woman we need!

>>8630284
"I dodge your charge with finesse"
"Due to my sheer size and the narrowness of the tunnels, dodging would cause you to teeter offbalance. I turn around and ready my axe to strike you while you regain your bearings."
"Actually, because of MAGIC and MARY SUE and also BERSERK = EASY TO DODGE, I have no reason to lose my balance and would therefore be ready to parry your next attack with ease and finesse."
Mod: "Ruled in Drow favor. Drow are not affected by inertia."

>>8630228
>33lbs axe
what idiot would bring a 33lbs axe to battle?
what idiot would HAVE a 33lbs axe?

>>8630142

I'd argue that they could be useful - Tainted who can Summon can do it in the middle of a Clan's habitation quarter (Which is as a good warfare method) and can use Spells. Plus, with enough knowledge, they can taint other Drow, specially those that would kill themselves after being tainted or those that would be killed on sight by the other, fairer skinned, Drow.

But:
I don't mind at all, if that is the consensus of the majority of people.

>>8630289
So Sarghress would be the Red Clan, the Warfolk, the Employers, the Battledykes, etc?

Alright. I have to go get some sleep. Its been said before but if it hasn't been archived, do so on suptg.

Why does Drawtales get this amount of attention from /tg/ anyway? It is a shitty mary sue wankfe- never mind I get it.

>>8630218

Have to pay attention to that. As an attempted ALPHA ORC wtfsize, strength, resourcefulness and a BURNING LOVE OF FREEDOOOOM is all I'm going to be relying on. Even if the size and strength just make him useful as a manual laborer in the Dorfcity

>>8630323
Nah, no way.

No fucking demon magic allowed. Only good, hardworking honest folk.

>>8630319

A retard-strong orc might. It was just an example, albeit exaggerated.

>>8630318
>Drow not effected by inertia
If a mod ever says this we must exploit it to the max.
"I roll away and use the inertia of my movement to bring myself to my feet!"
Sorry. Drow don't have inertia. DROW CAN'T DRIFT.
>>8630319
Guts. The dorf.

>>8630213
/b/ would have just posted CP everywhere.

I really am so glad I started coming here.

I've only played a table top rpg like, twice in my entire life, and this is still my favorite fucking board on 4chan.

>>8630327
>Battledykes

If I wasn't sick, I would be literally ROFLing.

I am seeing a prospective conversation going like this. "Urist, an envoy from the Warrior Clan has arrived."
"Ah, the noble Battledykes! They're always welcome! Let 'em in!"

What's more, I believe the Sarghress have already been established as having reason to trade with Dorfs. So every year, the elf caravan will arrive to trade for our trinkets.

Oh shit, we're RPing Dorf Fortress.

>344 posts and 35 image replies omitted. Click Reply to view.

Gettin' kinda full - we want to archive this and start a new thread?

>>8630366
But of course, by golly.

>>8630361

And

IT
IS
GLORIOUS!

>>8630366
Archive this, but don't start a new thread. Keep this going.

I'm thinking of making a Tainted. The "demon"? Lord Genome.

>>8630391
No.

Honest-to-god hardworking commoners only. This means the non-Fae races and some of the Sightless too.

>>8630420
This. Our mission is to be more sympathetic than they are and have fun pretending to be Dorfs living in squalid conditions, basically playing Dwarf Fortress through freeform RP. It is entirely /tg/-worthy, while at the same time, a mufuckin troll raid.

>>8630420
"Grey" elves can join then, just because they're fae doesn't stop them being guttertrash. And god I wish they had Goblins. I love me some conniving finnicky goblins.

Alright, think it's time to hit the sack -

By the way, if anyone wants to grab Lex LooseOre feel free. Maybe dwarf up the first name to disguise it, but something that'd be abbreviated as Lex.

I'm thinking of making a simple Dorf Butcher or Leatherworker for our humble community. Something honest and unassuming, but potentially useful should combat arrive.

That and should the improbable chance that he'd slay a Drow, I could off-handedly pass a knife to a nearby comrade and say "Here, help me cut the choice meats."

>>8630439
I am going to retire as well. But I'm in the list already. I'll be returning for future updates and working on my character in the meantime.

>>8630448
This is actually logical in this setting, because apparently cannibalism isn't taboo.

What about a dwarven language?

We could throw together a cipher and a grammar obfuscation method that makes everything sound dorfy. If we abuse it, the mods will demand that we translate it, but using it for dwarven names and phrases could generate a lot interest. We don't have to come out and say "this is our sekrit tongue!", it could appear to just be the funny little noises made by a lesser race, like the bark of a dog. It's the perfect explanation for if the mods demand that we translate it.

The best case scenario is that the other players assume it is nonsense, and try to talk like a dwarf as if they understand it (because drow know everything).

http://forums.drowtales.com/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=14079&start=15

Ill get in on this once it become more definite and structured.

Baeldun Stoneforge

A simple, honest smith. Nothing more.

>>8630478
Just refer to everything that is named something odd in Drow in English. For example, the "Drowussu" are "grays". The "Vlor'ress Clan" are "demondykes". So forth, so forth.

>>8630514
That's too comprehensible. We need something that people will have trouble pronouncing without slurping ale through a beard.

>>8630478
I can just see it now.

Dorf 1: Ah, the presence of a Drow Noble in our city. The day has become like rock drippings upon our heads.
Drow: I HEARD THAT YOU MISERABLE CURS! I SHALL HAVE YOUR HEADS! YOU DARE INSULT MY PUREST OF BLOODS WHEN YOU ARE THE ROCK DRIPPINGS!
Dorf 2: Oh, why thank you. We do try to take care of ourselves. Your mind is that of a Hammer's head, indeed.

>>8630529
That's just as bad as Kern's elfspeak, which is impossible to say without slurping ramen at the same time.

Anyway, finally decided on my character.

A simple architect and mason.

>>8630541
Now I am going to cook ramen for myself, and it is all your fault.

ALL YOUR FAULT.

Maybe I'll be able to speak Wapane- I mean Elvish better.

So, we have:
a) a jack of all trades dwarf
b) a manual labour orc
c) a leatherworking butcher dwarf
d) a smithing dwarf
e) a mason dwarf

Should be interesting.

>>8630592
I can make a digging specialist, maybe.

I dunno, this doesn't seem like something I'd be good at. I really like the idea, though, and want to give it a shot. Any tips for somebody whose parties have always been 'That's enough talking, let's kill something!' ?

If I wasn't exhausted and needed to go to school, I would whip together a little dwarf language encrypter/decrypter program. I'll just have to put it off.

In the meantime, feel free to utter complete nonsense occasionally. "Glah bears argund ut stoit."

It may be a good idea for me to make a character that is some sort of dwarven scrivener.

>>8630620
Butcher guy here
Well, if ye feel th' needta slay somthin', ye kin join me on th' hunt! I needta replenish me stock n kud always use annuther pair-a broad shouldas to heft th' meat 'ome.

>>8630646
Agh, but me 'ands 'ave only ever held pick an' shovel! Wha' good would aye be inna hunt?

>>8630634
Don't forget phrases and idioms.

dwarf: Ah, the drow have graced our land! It's but a green toe wedged in ma ear!

>>8630620
I'm guessing you were probably a digger slave then, used to dig out new tunnels in Chel'el. You got disgruntled and using your speedy mining skills and your knowledge of stones, managed to dig your way out of captivity.

Your attitude will probably all fiery and revolutionary, I'm guessing, although it's up to you as a player. In the end, this will be all about us working together as a team to survive in the tough subterranean wilderness of the Underworld.

So we're going for a mix of cockney and pirate?

>>8630690
Also, names on the list so far:

Fumbles
Reiiama
Bonus Gofur
Allotheism
Voynich
Gallentean
Sarcose

If your username is not on this list, please post it.

>>8630694
Cockney, pirate, Scottish, German, Russian, however you like your dwarf.

>>8630592

Has everyone read "I must scream but I have no mouth"?
We need a Dwarven whore!
Playfulness aside, mining specialists are needed. Food gatherers too.

http://cbpye.net/dwarfname.php

>>8630716
We've got one digger added to the list.

Now we just need a forager or a military man.

>>8630690
Hmm... I like it.

>>8630696
Fargrim Grungenail, reporting in! Unless that's a bad name...

>>8630660
This Ol rifle be a bit of a relic. Hits wit a decent punch n all, but usually takes a gud two-thrree shots t'bring th'bigger beasts down. If'n I could slow 'em down, You'rre set t'finish em off. Plant that pick-a yur's between thur pretty eyes n'such. Saves me ammunition, morre meat t'use, ye getsta slay t'yer 'earts content, and make yourself some coin enna hot meal when we return. Evrrybudda wins.

>>8630731
I'll be a forager. For now call me Goram until I come up with a suitably hilarious last name. I was thinking of "McStuntlybearded" but it'd probably be godmodded out. Might just string together some words from our tentative gibberish language.

>>8630735
E'rybuddy but the beastie, 'm I roight? Ah fancy ah hurt an'mal 'as a skull softer than rock, an' rock is like cake to moi pick! Less go, than!

>>8630735
No rifles allowed. Only cannons, from what I know.
>>8630734
Grudgenail might need work.
Fargrim does not.

>>8630735
Of note, rifles don't exist. The most we get is gunpowder with cannons.

In otherwords... hunting megabeasts WITH CANNONS.

Oh shit yes. We don't have to RP doing epic shit versus Drow. We just need to RP doing epic shit against the massive beasts that may roam the caverns. Also, the Drow respect "facing challenges" and some of their players may become erstwhile allies.

>>8630696
Dilliam
Carpenter

>>8630696
Fumbles
Reiiama
Bonus Gofur
Allotheism
Voynich
Gallentean
Sarcose

And now LisbonCabs.
I can't tell you which is my other account, though.
What do you guys need me to do?

>>8630729

Skullfist MacKillstone...

This is the best thing ever.

Hmm, I'm thinking of an engraver (not with that name, sadly). Possibly obsessed with some kind of article of food.

>>8630754
Oi! Aye think'd like teh tag along, if'n ye dun moind wotsit. Ah'm nahgud inna foight buts Oi can sneak whats roight wee de best o'd'm. Always wanted te see a gud round'a beasty thumpin up'in.

>>8630696
Haven't made a character yet, but call me "Dorrin Forgeheart"

>>8630760
Grungenail, not Grudgenail. Because he was born into captivity, and chosen as a digger from that point, so... Yeah, okay. It's bad. Anybody have thoughts?

Orcuus the.. well. Orc. Manual Laborer.

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>>8630790
>>8630754
>>8630735

We'll just talk like this all the time, no translation given, so if anyone ask us what it means we just shrug and tell them the truth, that even the other dwarf cant undestand it.

>>8630800
Grungenail?

Oh, well that works.

>>8630807
But I understand it just fine...

>>8630818
darn new plan then...

>>8630830
Yes, but the Real Pronounciation drow will not.

>>8630837
even if they use magic and fluffy powers?

>>8630818
We'll have to become surlier then! SURLIER I SAY!
Also come up with our own idioms on the fly.

daston the miner reporting in. Because only thing beter than a miner is two of them.

>>8630842
Last tim I checked, Drow didn't have translator magic.

>They make deals with the dwarves for safe passage because it would be hell of annoying to keep being bombarded by stumpy little duergars, it slows things down. The easiest solution for safe passage would be through that, the drow can easily take out the dwarves and thus eliminate the annoyance if they really wanted to put their efforts into it. Problem is the dwarves are snuggled in little crevices all around the underworld, and it would be too costly to go ahead and eliminate the last of their race. Whats the point? They are only a minor inconvenience, they are near death and fail as a race, there is no need for the drow to go ahead and wage war on dwarves when they can just make a quick and easy deal. Its not fear, its annoyance.

>Cannonballs tend to do that to metal. Besides, as for the cannonballs going through the 'armored' plating. I'm sure the Sarghess wouldn't invest much of their precious steel on defending the goods on their mounts, why would they? They had a guarantee for safe passage, and covering the caravans with steel is just heavy. And keep in mind the Sarghress are one of the poorer clans of the Great Clans, so their representation of steel and armor would pale in comparison to say a Sharen's wealthier armor.

>>8630830
>>8630818
>>8630807

Yes, but do you understand it without taking some effort?

Let's invent some cultural effect of Dwarves being inherently inbred, unintelligent lowlifes, in that they have to actually think when they attempt to translate what another of their kind says to them, and they only half get the gist of it and mostly communicate through common cultural understanding. This will also go a long way toward cementing our brotherhood when the final Mary Sue battle comes knocking at our innocent, hardworking doorstep.

So I'm working on my character (Goram) here, and I want to be a Forager and Cook. I'm thinking of giving him a very meager business relationship with the Sarghress (as I recall, established as canon a few chapters back) that "upset him when he heard the trade routes were attacked" and he's "waiting for his friends from the Drow community to come bringing their exotic meats in trade for his spices".

Also, he's going to have almost no combat skills except the bare minimal for survival, which will have the mods slavering and stroking their dicks at the prospect of a nice submissive dorf who won't try to upset their status quo.

I just want to play a good cook and a scampy little scavenger, is all.

>But back in subject, Dwarven cannon launchers/guns are rather odd. It seems to hook around the shoulder, its portable, and it delivers a shattering force. But it seems weird for them have the design as mentioned by the OP, so we can safely assume that the duergars haven't advanced. And also keep in mind this, prior to the elven invasion, the duergars were the dominant race in the Underworld and they only had each other to war with, I'm pretty their weapon technology wasn't advance because there wasn't a need to advance it. When the time came when it was necessary, it was too late, and they lacked the unity and stability to further improve on their weapons.

>I had the impression the Duergars were a peaceful race, with a few renegades and those came just as their race was being decimated.

>As for the offscreen kills, those kills mostly came from the surprise if any came.
And they most likely were serious injuries due the armored nature of the Highland raiders
Couple that with the fact that the Highland Raiders are among the elite of the Sarghress and are used to attacks, they were fast to jump into defensive position. Hence huge joint mana shield.

>Taking THAT into account, the casualties are little to none.

>>8630873
That just lets us be more sympathetic! We're /tg/, we're all about noncombat scenarios roleplayed to interesting effect. This is like a Quest RPG thread on a whole new level.

Quick, /tg/, you are a Dorf in Drowtales. You don't have any technology more advanced than a primitive cannon and you can't compete in areas of art or combat with the Drow. You must eke out an existence in a world where you are a literal underdog. What do you do!?

>I start talkin like a git!

I fucking love you guys.

Fuck, their captcha is 'what's your favorite character'.

Have any dwarves gotten names ever?

Btw won't the suden huge influx of dwarfs seem a little suspicius?

>>8630901
>You don't have any technology more advanced than a primitive cannon

...So Forgrim can't have his steel pickaxe?

>>8630910
Definitely. This is a project that will take a long time. We are essentially attempting to create a new subcommunity.

>>8630910

I MAED AN ORK

>>8630923
bronze for you my friend, GG

>>8630923
He probably can, actually.

Don't fucking question it. It's MarySueTales.

>>8630923
Iron pickaxe will do.
>>8630910
Who gives a shit? We'll say that we came here as a group because we want to roleplay something together and it'll be THE TRUTH.
>>8630908
Not really. Just say "Liriel, the blueberry elf".

I'm getting a block, here. I can't decide what to make of the guy. Most characters I have made in this roleplay were all fighters.

Who kept on dying.