I’ve identified with Elves and Wizards my whole life but for some reason, on the verge of 30, I’m becoming obsessed with Dwarves and their culture (Mountain/Shield Dwarves the most). So, thank you for all you do!!

I keep trying to think of a good dwarf pun, but I keep falling short...

@Overlord99762

3 жыл бұрын

I couldn't think of anything either, this is getting hairy

@Manahyde

2 жыл бұрын

Guess you came up short

@MinscFromBaldursGate92

Жыл бұрын

That's a grudgin'.

as a new DM your videos are literally a godsend in my worldbuilding

@Jorphdan

5 жыл бұрын

That's great! Happy to help :D

@cosmicmorning8206

5 жыл бұрын

@@Jorphdan Your a legend, I'm trying to homebrew an entire world and am using your videos as a guide, I'd be lost with out you. Thanks

In one of my private groups, we are all dwarves, of course, inspired by Tolkien's Hobbit. But there are only 3 of us, nevertheless, we are having so much fun playing through the Lost Mines of Phandelver. An adventure none of us finished when we started to play and it's a good one. Great video, I learned a lot, why aren't I subscribed??

@sirhipolito1462

5 жыл бұрын

Are we gonna get all races or initially only PHB ones? I love Aasimar. And these races videos

@Jorphdan

5 жыл бұрын

They're fun! I was originally just going to cover the Elves and Dwarves but now I'm thinking I'll do some more races. I'll see what I can find :)

I have been reading anything about dwarves in Faerun (not dragonlance) for my Dwarf character creation and your timing is impeccable. You sir are a gentleman and scholar.

@Jorphdan

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks! :D

I say if Pikel Bouldershoulder can become a dwarf druid, then why can't a dwarf become a spell caster

imagine leaving Bhaerynden for Chult like "what a good idea"

I made a gold dwarf, they have dark skin, just like me 😁

@benjaminplatt4109

4 жыл бұрын

A friend of mine played a gold dwarf-like blade runner it was awesome, he was super intimidating and super crazy in combat being a barbarian

@wikipediaintellectual7088

6 ай бұрын

A Brazorf.

Half-naked, greased dwarves? I think thats enough reason to never visit chult.

@Largo01

5 жыл бұрын

Agreed, friend.

@magwaaf

4 жыл бұрын

that's because you aren't man enough to try and get a dinosaur mount lol

@cabrondemente1

4 жыл бұрын

u kidding me!? look at those abs and massive delts

@jayoctopus8832

4 жыл бұрын

Tortles live there, so...

@MrJojux

3 жыл бұрын

That's a reason to move there!

The race break down videos rule, keep em coming!

There’s also the Kara-Tur subrace, the Korobokuru, who are more chaotic in nature and seem to me like a strange middle ground between the wild dwarves and the others, since they live close to nature but still build settlements and farms

When reading R.A. Salvatore’s novels set in F.R., I found those parts of the story focused on the Dwarves were the most enjoyable and wholesome. Like… humans so often wound up being greedy parasites and created societies that I wouldn’t want to live in myself. But hearing of the general goings on of Clan Battlehammer, of Pikel + Ivan Bouldershoulder, of Thibbledorf Pwent, and even of Athrogate (with his silly rhymes) together with Amber Gristle O Maul…. I felt like I could lived among them no problems. Or since I’m kind of tall… maybe I’d live with the halflings in the Bleeding Vines town that’s been set up above Gauntlgrym just for some extra space. And just visit the mining city during day trips (or every year or so when defending it from the next inevitable attack).

@qzbnyv

Жыл бұрын

Seems that digging too deep is a constant problem dwarves have faced. Examples: - The poor Duegar (Grey Dwarfs) digging too deep and getting enslaved by mind flayers 😓 - The Delzoun dwarves digging at Gauntlgrym reaching the fire primordial (!!!) Maegera (…though that worked out okay once they harnessed it with help of the other races) - The Battlehammer clan of Delzoun dwarves digging too deep at Mithral Hall and provoking Shimmergloom (a Shadow Dragon) into attacking them

I am NOT a dwarf I'm NOT an elf I'm a GNOME and you've been GNOMED

''I need a swig of some strong dwarven ale.''

One of the many weird bits about 5e Tomb of Annihilation is how the Albino Dwarves of Chult are clearly *not* the same as the Wild Dwarves from previous editions and, in fact--aside from their appearance--are pretty similar, culturally, to most other dwarves. Just another thing in this module included without much thought given to any considerations beyond surface-level fan-service.

No Spawn War? It’s my favorite part of dwarven history.

I learned a lot watching your videos, and i want to say that i'm very thankful! I'm happy to see that one of your favourite race is the Dwarf, so do I. Proud, respectful, rigid, loyal and sometimes superstitious. Dwarfkind is one of the most colorful, not showy well designed race of all faehrun. Shield Dwarves Forevah.

Interesting that you mention a transmuter dwarf character - that was an idea I had with the concept being that he wants to learn to change the substance of materials to make mining easier so that more time can be put into the finest possible craftsmanship. Instead I opted for a shadowfell sorcerer dwarf - touched by shadowfell forces during a mine collapse and struggling to come to term with growing arcane powers

It's too bad about Neverwinter. So many players got temporary suspended.

Dwarves are one of my fave fantasy races also! Currently playing a War Domain (Tempus) Cleric in the Storm Kings Thunder campaign.

By Moradin's beard, this is some good lore on a proud glorious race, lad

Amazing video 😀🤙🏻❤

One of my favorite dwarf campaigns had a clan of dwarven ninja in Kara Tur.

I play dwarf pretty much every game. It's the most fun to rp by far in my opinion

@Jorphdan

5 жыл бұрын

sweet!

throws in a picture of Grombrindal for good measure.

Thanks for this it's really insightful and had given me a great launchpad to keep researching! I wish there were more hill/gold Dwarf settlements! It seems totally counter intuitive that they'd have smaller settlements other than the ravaged landscape. Purely due to the lack of isolation I'd imagine their population would be massive compared to mountain/shield.

In one campaign I'm in we had a npc dwarf named Bubbles.

I felt the lack of information on Delzoun was surprising. But good video! I don't know much about the dwarves in the great rift, only that it became a monster filled pit during the spellplague. If any other viewers know of any novels on there please recommend it to me 😊

@anthonygonzalez2897

4 жыл бұрын

Hey I know this is a year old but whatever lol. In response to your comment I believe ancient clans like the Delzoun came about later in history after the split in the dwarven race resulted in Gold/Shield...etc. Around -4000 to -3000 DR. So this vid is more about the races of dwarves than their eventual clan identities . Delzoun were shield dwarves.

You talking about how dwarfs are not fans of magic reminds me of how off a new gamer at adventure league made his character. It is a hill dwarf fighter / rogue arcane trickster. When I started chuckling he asked why. I told him it is braking most every dwarf custome. Honor is there thing and one thing they truly dislike is arcane magic.

My favorite race!!

I have thoroughly enjoyed these videos, and have learned about some lore I have missed. However, I have to ask where you are finding the overland maps other than the Faerun ones. I am absolutely fascinated by them and wish to study them further for my campaigns.

@Jorphdan

5 жыл бұрын

A lot of them are maps from the adventures WotC puts out for 5e. The Sword Coast, Chult, Out of the Abyss the Whorlstone tunnels. So check out those adventures for more maps, or google search :)

@SuperAzreal

5 жыл бұрын

@@Jorphdan Awesome! Thank you for pointing out those adventures to me. I am going to be researching these for a archeology campaign!

They are my preferred too. Also, this video could take longer.

So, this might be a silly question, but where do Mountain and Hill dwarves fit in? Are they just different names for Shield and Gold Dwarves? If not, why aren't shield and gold in the 5e PHB?

@Jorphdan

5 жыл бұрын

They are different names, Shield and Gold dwarves are the Forgotten Realms specific names. Shield and Gold Dwarves are not in the PHB because it's supposed to be system neutral so you could play in Eberron or Dragonlance, or what have you. If you're playing a Shield Dwarf in the Forgotten Realms use the Mountain Dwarf sub race from the 5e PHB. Gold Dwarves use the Hill Dwarf subrace. good question :D

@Romearci

5 жыл бұрын

Gold dwarves are seperate, that I know. They appear in the Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide as a different sub-race. But I don't know about the correlation between Shield, Hill and Mountain dwarves.

Thanks, Great videos! Could you please make more about Eberron Lore?

@Jorphdan

5 жыл бұрын

More Eberron is coming :D

Thanks!

@Jorphdan

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you~ :D

I'm glad you're still doing these, but what happened to Eberon?

@Jorphdan

5 жыл бұрын

I'll go back and forth. People still wanted Forgotten Realms so I said I wouldn't abandon the setting all together.

my buddy had an awesome dwarf wizard years ago... 18 str at level 1, true strike, dwarven longhammer

Dwarves are my favorite race in D&D thank you for this informative video please have a good evening .Also please show your Norwegian forest cat again please.

Love your videos! Can you do a quick video on the human ethnicities from the phb? I don’t know my illuskans from my damarans and don’t know when I would pick any of these ethnicities.

@Jorphdan

5 жыл бұрын

I'll see what I can do. I was going to finish the race videos with Humans and not sure where to start yet but this seems like a good place :)

@johngilmore7400

5 жыл бұрын

@@Jorphdan thank you! I mostly just don't know where all of these people are from. Sword coast adventurer's guide doesn't have like any info for outside the sword coast.

Why no mention of the Derro? While often confused for the Dreugar, they are not the same.

Clan Duergar lives! ⚜️

I love Dwarves. They are such an underdog. People either play elves or if they want short people then they play gnomes. Tolkien based them off the culture I grew up in too so I sort of identify with that too. Such an under rated race if you ask me and the race that just get pooped on. Like the Drow and that junk. No wonder Dwarves distrust Elves. High Elves are the cause of like all of Faerun's problems, worse than Fairies in that way, and the Drow might be their victims but they are no different with their daemons. Bawh!

Are you going to do all the races? I really want a gnome video that talks about where they come from and their God's. But if you're doing a series on races please don't forget anybody. Personally even if some of them are shorter videos or if you did some of them like the deities' videos like two each or something I'm totally cool with that.

@Jorphdan

5 жыл бұрын

We'll see. I was originally just going to do the elves and dwarves but I like the idea of a fatnasy race series :)

I feel like the deep gnomes in the underdark (svin... Something) could be a good character for transmutation

@Marek_J

3 жыл бұрын

Svirfneblin?

FOR KING BRUNORE BATTLEHAMMER

Well my favorite scene was Lord of the rings when the dwarves were in the fountain taking a bath all naked I couldn't stop laughing..

speaking in regards of the Dwarves, what is your opinion on the "update" that the 4th edition did...killing of all the Dwarfs of the Great rift, destruction of the Halfling homeland of Lurien, destruction of Evermeeth, destruction of the Gnomish island of Lantarn and finally but not least the erasing of Maztica...also Halrua was destroyed etc etc....

@grymhild

5 жыл бұрын

4e and any lore related or based on it is heresy

I've just realised all Faerun names are mimicing real geographic names, the map also familiar

I've only ever played Basic and I'm really new. I'm trying to learn 5e. Just got the DM book. I'm confused, what's Toril, and what is Faerun? I thought Faerun was just the name of the continent or something. Is Toril the Earth/planet? Or is it the other way around? Sorry for being so dumb

@Jorphdan

5 жыл бұрын

You're not dumb at all! Toril is the planet, Faerun is the continent that most of the Forgotten Realms stories occur on.

What about the Derro?

Are the Albino Dwarves of Chult a thing?

where can i get a hi rez map of pelvuria

Ur better of playing some kind of space and time wizard if you wanna be a dwarve wizard, I'm pretty sure there aren't as many penalties as the magic dwarves resist is arcane, and those are usually classified as ancient spells

My brother played a Dwarf Transmuter in a 3rd Edition game I ran!

@Jorphdan

5 жыл бұрын

sweet!!!

Covered in grease WARD OFF insects? #DwarfFail

If my dwarf reincarnates into human, can Moradin still hear his prayers? How does it work?

@Jorphdan

5 жыл бұрын

Sounds like a decision for the Dungeon Master in your game :)

@gabrielrussell5531

5 жыл бұрын

Moradin is the most powerful god. He forged the material plane, and he hears all. He loves all who follow his teachings, regardless of their race. In 4E they actually did away with the whole racial gods bullshit, and made it so Moradin was the universally accepted god of craft, but Dwarves worshiped him extra hard because he made them.

@j2dragon109

5 жыл бұрын

Gabriel Russell And in 5E that silly retcon is ignored. Why do you think racial gods are bullshit? I agree that certain races being forbidden from being clerics of other race’s is Gods is stupid (sans when said god is a racist) but not the fact that specific cultures would have their own pantheons.

@liondrago

5 жыл бұрын

It's not the beard on the outside that counts but the beard on the inside.

Do the dwarven pantheon please.

. . . the duergar dug too greedily and too deep.

dwarven wildmage

Jane Levy would be an awesome Queen of the dwarves.

JORFDAN

I have a dwarf in with my group his name is benson bear claw they call him bear.. that man is as tough as one lol ha ha ha

I am making Transmuter shield dwarf because it really fits their ideology. Their dislike for arcane studies I excused with golden dragon teacher

@Jorphdan

5 жыл бұрын

I also want to play a transmuter dwarf! Although I was going to go with the Eberron Dwarves for the INT boost.

He said there are 7 subraces, but only named 5. Is this not including Mountain and Hill?

@Jorphdan

5 жыл бұрын

Oh sorry I said several subraces, not 7. Mountain and Hill would be Gold and Shield in the forgotten realms.

@cosmicmorning8206

5 жыл бұрын

@@Jorphdan oh okay thanks, your my favourite D&D KZreadr tied with Matthew Colville and Critical Role

@Jorphdan

5 жыл бұрын

That's good company :D Thanks!

When it comes down to dwarven steel, there is not comparisons, none I cal tell you, sure the elves have their enchanted forges and the fire giants have their great magmatic furnaces, but dwarven steel my friends forged by the hands of a master runesmiths on their elemental, primal forges and anvils, is nothing short of miracles made flesh, or in this case metal, Dwarves do not use magic, they have no use for it, but they can channel the raw primal power of the elements and arcane into the metals weaving them during the forging and hammering them in place on their anvils, all done by master runesmith, but the metal at its core is were things get interesting, while not all dwarven metal works have a natural magical infused alloyed, the metals used in their weapons and armor are the result of an amalgamation of volcanic mineral being fused together, this is the reason why dwarven-steel never seem to rust, nor lose its edge, but things get even better when actual enchanted alloyed is used along with their runes, I have seen runic axes cut down a giant, a shield taking a spell blast from soccer or armor that can withstand illusions and temptations of demons,

what's a doobleedoo? matthew colvilel says all the time as well

@Jorphdan

5 жыл бұрын

It's KZread slang for the description text below the video :)

@dark3rthanshadows

5 жыл бұрын

@@Jorphdan loool

MORADIIIIIIINN

But, what about *HUMANS!1!!!*

@Jorphdan

5 жыл бұрын

What about them? :o

but WHY do Dwarves shun magic?

@Jorphdan

5 жыл бұрын

good question, I wish I had an answer except they act like grumpy old men sometimes. Different is weird, why use magic when you can just light a torch normally. That being said it's a great wish of mine to play a dwarf transmuter wizard.

The PH is silent... HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Doobli-doo - why is that whenever I want to listen to wonderful DnD things - or interesting educational videos, I have to suffer hearing this cringey expression?

@GratuaCuun

5 жыл бұрын

Its in regards to the video description thing. Matt Colville says it all the time. I'm not sure If Jorphdan is grabbing that from Colville cause he is a fan or if he just couldn't find another word. Either way its not that bad.

You REALLY NEED TO READ THE REALMS AND STOP USING D&D BOOKS FOR REFERENCE! there is so much you don't know and not true. Bout every forgotten realms reference you make is close to trash. Keep it to D&D campaign books cause it's obvious you don't know the realms

@Jorphdan

5 жыл бұрын

I'm sorry you feel you need to all caps at me. I'll keep making videos as the majority of people have found them entertaining and useful for their campaigns. Not everyone has the time to slough through hundreds of Forgotten Realms books and have details memorized on hand for future reference. This is why I've gone with the lore that is summarized and repeated in more accessible campaign setting books and modules. I hope your day gets better, as you seem to be having a bad one.