Chapter 2: The Dwarf Subraces

Basic information on dwarves can be found in the Player's Handbook. This chapter provides additional material about hill, mountain, sundered, deep, duergar, and gully dwarves. The differences between them may have been part of their creation or may have evolved over thousands of years of hard living.

The following descriptions are provided as background only, not definitive guidelines. Although each subrace is given an alignment, individuals may have their own alignments. Similarly, the subrace does not depend on location. Mountain dwarves may be found living at depths normally associated with deep dwarves. Although they live at such depths, they are mountain dwarves, not deep dwarves.

Chapter 4 describes adjustments to attributes and experience levels for each type of dwarf. Here we are concerned with origins, appearance, and the social and psychological differences between the subraces.

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