Thus Spake Zaranephilpal/MountainFolkBadAsses

From rpg.net --- Re: Exalted Sans the Cliches Quote: Originally Posted by Vigorous Ape The Mountainfolk are too much like dwarfs for my taste, but it's easy enough to make them more like the other fae. ---

Yeah. Right.

• snort*

You say that again when you've got the book in your hands and you probe through the imposing, prehuman ultra supermen carved in the image of the Great Maker. These are an ancient race betrayed by their allies, broken as a species, cursed to face endless genocidal war with the monsters that most people don't even know exist. Only one of their three Castes remotely qualifies as dwarf-like in appearance and the warriors are closer to neanderthal space marines in power armor carrying crossbows, pressurized napalm cannons and force-pikes. Their civilization is structured like a cross between an ant farm, a socialist state and Plato's Republic, ruled by often-telepathic ultra-intelligent leaders who use their kung fu magitech feng shui to rip Essence out of Manses and shoot deathrays from their fingers when they aren't designing new artifacts of unspeakable power.

Just wait and see. Then start throwing assumptions around.

Comments

Oh, this is going to be so cool -MeiRen

The sad thing is, they kind of are like dwarves. I mean, I have read the book, and they're cooler than dwarves, but, yeah, they're kinda like dwarves. -TedPro

The artisans aren't really anything like dwarves, as he says. The warriors remind me more of space marines from Warhammer than actual dwarves... but the workers DO seem rather... dwarvish. I mean... they have -engineering- charms.
-- Darloth

Umm ... so, in other words, they're just like the Neph quote above describes? - David.

Similar. I'd say both workers and warriors are dwarf-like in -appearance- though.
-- Darloth

Its worth noting that according to Neph when I asked him about the appearanced of the Enlightened Workers & Warriors, the physical description of the Warriors in the book was not what he originally had in mind. They got shrunk down to dwarf size somewhere in editing. He wanted them human hight to be more physically imposing in combat. -- Glamourweaver

I think the point is, they don't go around saying "ack, I'm a thinly veiled scottish stereotype, laddie!" like Dwarves from Tolkien. Which is what I would have been concerned about - Tolkien dwarves are teh lame. -MeiRen

That's not Tolkien dwarves, that's badly-played D&D dwarves. And John Rhys-Davies. -Ben-San

I dunno, I kinda liked the idea of neanderthal warriors. I might just use that as their descriptor for games I run, rather hten the dwarven look that the illustrations show 'em as. Its cooler that way IMHO:) Stuff. Blaque

I would like to add that I approve of this use in your games. Any chance of us seeing a contingent of Mountain Folk? - Jaelra