Talk:Dwarf (Dungeons & Dragons)

Merged
Article merged: See old duergar talk-page here —Preceding unsigned comment added by Drilnoth (talk • contribs) 12:57, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

Modifying release information
I'm still dreaming of getting this to good article somehow, and the release portion of the article seems too dull in presentation. Maybe we could figure out specific changes for all the different rules to explain? I only own copies of the Mentzer D&D sets, the 2nd Edition books, and the 3rd edition books. An explanation of the progression and changes could be good, but I'd need some help to fill in the rest of the details from other sets. Comments? —Torchiest talkedits 03:44, 1 October 2012 (UTC)
 * It would help (a whole lot!) if we could find some sources for that sort of info. BOZ (talk) 04:06, 1 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Well, I think we can source directly to the game books for that stuff. An example of what I mean is the infravision thing I just added.  That skill was renamed to darkvision in later editions.  There's got to be some other stuff like that we could add that wouldn't be as detailed as "well they used to get a -2 AC bonus against giants but now they get a +4 attack modifier", but along those lines. —Torchiest talkedits 04:29, 1 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Oh right, I see what you mean. Really basic stuff, like the vision abilities, but nothing like bare game stats. BOZ (talk) 12:07, 1 October 2012 (UTC)

Breaking history section into subsections
I agree with IP 129's comments in their edit summaries. I don't think it's productive to create a bunch of tiny sections when the current section works as a whole. I don't see a good way to make all those small sections more detailed, unless someone were to write a book devoted specifically to the history of the D&D dwarf with lots of interviews with various writers about the process of development over the course of multiple editions. I also agree that this article is a good target for emulation by other D&D articles, rather than one that needs to be changed back to its older format. —Torchiest talkedits 10:47, 19 September 2014 (UTC)

Secondary source
If someone wanted to expand this article with more real-world related content, the PhD thesis DUNGEONS & DISCOURSE: INTERSECTIONAL IDENTITIES IN DUNGEONS & DRAGONS contains analysis, among others a pages 58, 67, 78, 165. Daranios (talk) 07:29, 19 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Nice, that should help this article and probably others! 98.32.192.121 (talk) 12:59, 19 April 2021 (UTC)