Never liked the elves as portraid in BG games. They're scrawny, short and with tiny spaghetti-like arms and legs. Tolkien's elves are tall, magnificent and portraid as superior to humans where-as the BG elves feel inferior ('cept for their grace (+DEX) and the obvious immortality. Dwarves are stout, sport massive beards and get the CON bonus AND the saves bonus. They also have a cool animation in the game.
I know very little about the lore of FR other than what the BG games tell me, but based on that, I'd say dwarves are the 'better' race.
Fun fact, BG2:EE has a wild mage dwarf that you can meet during Neera's quest. You can even tell him to the face how weird it is for him to be a mage ... nope, not gonna go there ...
Fun fact, BG2:EE has a wild mage dwarf that you can meet during Neera's quest. You can even tell him to the face how weird it is for him to be a mage ... nope, not gonna go there ...
If you think about it elves are basically hipsters. Think they are better than everyone, vegans, anything you can think of they claim they did first and better, obsessed with their appearance, good at archery, live in trees.
Elves are cool. They're often the only way not to play a bodybuilder while still playing a man. That counts to me. Dwarves are just better though, they're the only way to play a bearded macho while still playing a woman.
I just ask myself... who would I have more fun going to the pub with?
An elf who has one glass of white wine and bemoans the lack of a vegetarian option on the menu and goes home early because they have an early start tomorrow....
Or a dwarf, who orders 10 pints and a bag of pork scratchings (to save going back up to the bar in the next hour), sings a rumbunctious song about decapitating an orc and then using the severed head as a bowling ball, and then agrees to a game of darts only if he can use his throwing axe.
Sounds like you've got some stereotypes in mind there.
Stereotypes? Me? Never!
All my opinions are firmly rooted in fact!
Take my assertion that Elves prefer to drink white wine....
A YouGov poll in 2012 surveyed 1,843 elves*, and discovered that dry white wine is the preferred tipple of over 42% of them. If we include Liebfraumilch and other sweet and semi-sweet white wines, the total number rises to just over 60%.
For the sake of completedness, the total figures of the survey were as follows:
Elves and Dwarves are in leagues of their own, but I like the dwarves better. The tough-as-nails, personable-as-a-stubborn-mule fantasy race of stocky, hard-drinking warrior craftsmen are pragmatic and direct: it’s all about function over form, although form does not go unnoticed. Their straightforward approach often boils down to a matter of absolutes.
In combat – If it’s not my friend, hit it until it’s dead. In roleplaying – If it’s not my friend, don’t trust it and if need be, hit it until it’s dead. In diplomacy – If you don’t give me what I need or want, prepare to be hit until dead. In drinking – I will keep drinking long after your liver is dead.
all while boasting about their deeds in style with their Yorkshire and Scottish accents. So basically dwarves are Vikings.
Warriors of legend. Being born of stone. They are the craftsmen of the ages, The best the world has even known.
Charging into battle. Weapons in the air. The battlecries of many causing quite a nasty scare.
But above all, I love the dwarves and elves rivalry, with sometimes epic moments of greatness.
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I do like Dwarves tho
You can even tell him to the face how weird it is for him to be a mage ... nope, not gonna go there ...
My inner twelve year old says elves.
But my inner 25 year old says dwarves.
What to do????
...I'm not entirely sure this helps my case
An elf who has one glass of white wine and bemoans the lack of a vegetarian option on the menu and goes home early because they have an early start tomorrow....
Or a dwarf, who orders 10 pints and a bag of pork scratchings (to save going back up to the bar in the next hour), sings a rumbunctious song about decapitating an orc and then using the severed head as a bowling ball, and then agrees to a game of darts only if he can use his throwing axe.
Dwarves everytime!
All my opinions are firmly rooted in fact!
Take my assertion that Elves prefer to drink white wine....
A YouGov poll in 2012 surveyed 1,843 elves*, and discovered that dry white wine is the preferred tipple of over 42% of them. If we include Liebfraumilch and other sweet and semi-sweet white wines, the total number rises to just over 60%.
For the sake of completedness, the total figures of the survey were as follows:
Dry white wine 774 (42%)
Absinthe 350 (19%)
Sweet white wine 332 (18%)
Cider 184 (10%)
Elderberry wine 165 (9%)
Others 38 (2%)
*Drows were excluded, on account of their habit of murdering the pollsters sent round to ask the questions.
In combat – If it’s not my friend, hit it until it’s dead.
In roleplaying – If it’s not my friend, don’t trust it and if need be, hit it until it’s dead.
In diplomacy – If you don’t give me what I need or want, prepare to be hit until dead.
In drinking – I will keep drinking long after your liver is dead.
all while boasting about their deeds in style with their Yorkshire and Scottish accents. So basically dwarves are Vikings.
Warriors of legend.
Being born of stone.
They are the craftsmen of the ages,
The best the world has even known.
Charging into battle.
Weapons in the air.
The battlecries of many causing quite a nasty scare.
But above all, I love the dwarves and elves rivalry, with sometimes epic moments of greatness.
It is a tough choice