The Darkest Secret of the Dwarves - D&D
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_"Darkest secret of the dwarves: any babies born without sufficiently awesome beards are immediately disposed of via tossing in the lava pit._ *_NO EXCEPTIONS."_*
Young dwarf: Dad, I can't swim in that!
Papa Dwarf: tha sounds like elf talk boy!
xD
"Dwarven babies are often delivered by midwives by gently dragging the baby by the beard,
the longer the babys braid, the better"
@@yappingdog2759 no te
There’s nothing more tragic in the material realm than a bald dwarf.
@@locomadman then you gonna hate Dragon Age dwarf
YOU ARE REVEALING SECRETS ABOUT THE DWARVES?
THAT'S GOING INTO THE BOOK, LAD!!
**80 years later**
MrRhexx Jr: “Oh god, our city is being invaded by demons, help us Dwarfs!!!”
The Dwarf King: “No.”
**Strikes MrRhexx’s Name from the book**
The Dwarf King: “The Grudge is now settled”
**Smoke pours up from the burning ruins of the city**
Dwarves: The ultimate grudgelords!
**scribble scribble**
That's with two x'es right?
KAZAKA KAZHUKI AH!
GRUDGE TIME!
MrRhexx: 'dwarves live very close together and space is precious'
the pictures hes talking over: the most open and spacious underground housing spaces ive ever seen in my entire life
My thought that the extended family living together sounded a lot like normal medieval living...
Well, personal space is precious and remember practically the entire extended family lives there
Wild character idea:
Dwarf bard, calling himself "THE Salvation of my Race" going on a mission to bone everyone in the realms.
A few decades down the line, we get the Dwarf Slayer Prestige class.
Yes, 100% yes.
@@Humster Not to be confused with the aforementioned Dwarf bard, who's the Dwarf _Layer_ Prestige class.
I was thinking kinda the same, but mor elike an exile.
A dwarf that sees the treath of extintion try to convince the chiefs to conect with other races.
They wont budge, and he is exile.
Now resolute in his belives he wanders in search of an adequate mate, or a more open dwarf community
A point to remember is dwarf are very loyal, focus and thsu monogamus.
Going horny dwarf bard, is a little wacky, BUT half-dwarf as a Bard may do the trick.
I DM for a rather large group with two Dwarves in it. A Succubus wanted to seduce (charm person) one of them (a vengance Paladin) and he suceeded in his wisdom save. He then looked her in the eyes and said: "Move away from me, hairless harlot! How dare you try to rub your smooth cheeks against my face!"
Made my day.
That should have counted as a casting of vicious mockery lol
@@agustinvenegas5238 depend on the game, the succubus could actually get psychic damage from harsh reject
@[REDACTED] You mean, emotional damage? XD
Succubus look like the epitome of buety to the dwarf and thus would have a beard
@@davidholmes3728 Not this one, tho.
Dwarfs: “Humans fuck constantly.”
The Party Bard: “They’re not wrong, but I still take offense.”
A bad I know would take that as a positive aspect of humans, their ability to literally mate with everything is legendary, there are cross-breeds with all possible monsters
@@marcogenovesi8570 there’s a whole thing with humans being called space orcs, now I hear they breed like orcs too? 🤣
"Just because I'm human doesn't mean I'm oversexed! *beat* I mean I'm oversexed, but not because I'm human!"
@@thecrazycapmaster I'm not seeing where the "space" part comes from, but yeah, there is a reason if the only race that consistently claps orc invasions is humans, they got the numbers.
Kind of want to make a Dwarf who's sacred duty it is to seed himself to as many Human surrogates as possible.xD
Dwarf before going out into the world: "Those humans, like rabbits, no patience or decency!" Dwarf in predominantly human town: "Wait wheres the sexy times?"
I'm sorry but you should flash your wealth dwarf otherwise human women are not going to look at you if you are below 6 foot.
MrRhexx is starting to talk about the Dwarves now. Now we're talking lad! Been waiting a couple of years for you to make a series about the Dwarves like what you did for the Elves. Looking forward to the other videos!
I know, these videos are legit. They're both fascinating pass-times and world-kindling inspiration for campaigns. I owe most of the world my party plays in to MrRhexx
Aye, my manager at a retail store I used to work at let me listen to MrRhexx's videos on the speakers while doing inventory. Good times.
After the word "lad" I could only read the rest of the comment with that WoW dwarven accent
KHAZUK!
I'm glad the dwarves are getting their videos after the elves got theirs awhile back. As a fan of dwarves and character ideas for playable races, these videos are nice to see.
I watch that video on elves. I dislike them beforehand. After, i pity them.
Yes! you are making a spiritual successor of Savage Species! The old 3.0 manual to play monsters as characters! Smashing that buy button
Same! And you hit the nail on the head it is indeed a successor. Mr Rhexx did a fantastic job.
I literally get 3 characters and 1 adventure ideas from this video alone. You are not a Mr anymore, you are a Sir!
I made my favorite character from his Dragonborn video. His videos are a great resource.
Always thought Gimli sounded more Welsh, I mean John Rhys-davies is Welsh and it definitely comes through in a few of his lines.
My first character was a rather tall dwarf leaving his home with a distrust of humans
Did I accidentally make a half-dwarf with daddy issues?
I am in love with the aesthetic of Dwarves. And yet, I've never played one as a player. However, I get giddy anytime I get to DM them as NPC's. Especially when I get to create Dwarvish communities! The pride, the drinking, but mostly, the spite!
I wish I could like this comment more
@@superfrans100 thanks!
I can highly recommend playing one the only thing that sucks is the 25ft of movement
@@BWANEMAET if the half dwarves have long legs but are otherwise just dwarves, you could reasonably assume they have the same stat block as a dwarf with 30ft of movement
never played one???? wow, not sure how you pulled that off. but it is so worth it, i may have one character in all my years of playing that i would put above my Dwarf Cleric for sheer enjoyment of playing. getting to be the grumpy curmudgeon of the group (even though that still makes him one of the happiest dwarves that anyone has ever seen) who is also the lynch pin of just about any encounter is a great way to spend a campaign. mind you, this is made SIGNIFICANTLY better if your DM despises dwarves on a personal level and every little bit of success you have throws him into a new level of existential crisis.
Note on Faerun Dwarves: They were gifted by the Gods with the Thunder Blessing; Causing many Dwarven Twins to be born, increasing their population greatly... this has caused the Dwarves of Faerun to turn the tide on their decline.
Sauce?
Anyway feels kinda weird this part of the lore, but it could be weirder. For instance there could be a third sex, which is "infertile male" or "drone" which is all the dwarves who would have been female or are infertile male. But then there is no reason for the otherwise female dwarves to be infertile.
So I was thinking that what this actually could be modified to is that most of the dwarves ARE fertile but not 100% of the time. Like some special stuff needs to happen/be present for them to be able to sire children and this changes from dwarf to dwarf. Meaning that it can completely look like they are infertile, because if you can't have a kid until you are 150, then for multiple human generations you were infertile. But then you have 20 years in which you can have kids, but maybe in those years you can't get a mate. So you end up without children.
And even those, who let'S say had arranged marriage, who are almost certain to be able to sire a baby or two, will not have too many offspring and the time between offspring ramains huge which means the dwarves don't stress their living space.
And this also means that they can get into decline. And having a blessing for twins is even better.
I might also use the having twins in my campaign.
@@Limrasson Sauce is I believe the Faerun Campaign Guide, but don't quote Me. Just look up Thunder Blessing Faerun and it should pop up. It's pretty well known...
@@steelshanks1265 But this effect is only applies to the continent?
@@Limrasson It only applies to the World of Faerun, yes.
@@Limrasson dude .. infertility is NOT a third sex dude. And that dwarf only fertile for like 5% of their life? Dude good luck pushing that through all the other established lore.
MrRhexx lore videos are always a treat to watch
Oh, i thought you were going to talk about the smuggling and other criminal activity. The underworld of the underworld if you like. I think one of the big underground crime syndicates is the shieldeater clan or something like that. They have a bunch of connections with other organizations and usually act as the middle-man in a lot of smuggling operations, as they can completely bypass laws, tolls, and taxes that come from transporting goods over the surface and deposit said goods in dead drops located just outside or directly inside the target location. They're also basically untouchable since it's next to impossible to catch them with anything illegal.
So they are the thieves guilds' FedEx? Nice
@Miguel Angel Rangel the fact that they can always say "didn't know what was in the box, wasn't none of me Business" makes me really happy
I am surprised you did not mention the thunder blessing Moradin bestowed them to increase their birthrate by splitting the Dwarven soul into two parts as the number of Dwarven souls is a fixed number.
I am extremely happy you chose to preview some of your classes, otherwise how would we have known what we were purchasing, makes me and I'm sure everyone else more inclined to purchase your pdf
Re: Dwarven fertility.
I could of sworn this was addressed in the old 3.5 days, Moradin himself interceded and lifted this blight of infertility that was plaguing the dwarfs. When and why was this rescinded?
Yeah, it's called the Thunder Blessing. According to the wiki, Moradin reunited with the other dwarven gods and decided to do something about the low fertility rates of dwarves, they then decided to split each existing soul into two when they were to reincarnate, making it so that most dwarven births after 1306 DR were of twins.
@@ic3hell520 Ahh, cool, thanks for filling it in, mate.
Because constant ret coning, crappy continuity editing. General degradation of lore after 2nd edition and especially after 3rd.
Grim mystery mixed with sadness and pride. Yeah thats a Scotsman.
A Dwarf and an Asari happen to meet one day. It was love at first sight. After several awkward but enjoyable dates, they decide to seal the deal and move in together.
After several month of trying, they discovered that they would have a child, much to their delight. The next few were filled with parenting class, baby proofing their home, and, of course, shopping. They bought generic clothing that could fit any child because they both decided to keep the baby's identity a secret until the day of the child's birth. However, in the back of their minds, both were firmly convinced that the child would resemble their respective races.
The day came and they rushed to the hospital for the baby was due. It took a few hours with a few close calls but the doctors asked for one last push. With a last exhausted effort, the baby arrived. Both Asari and Dwarf were thrilled and waited for the swaddled bundle to be handed over to them so that they could finally see their child. What they did not expect was the rising silence that came from the doctors as they held their bundle of joy, which was unusually silent.
The parents cracked through the silence and demanded they see their child. The reluctant doctors nodded and handed over the blanket wrapped bundle. The Asari and Dwarf took the small bundle and slowly unwraped it, waiting for who may be underneath. They kept unwrapping but no child appeared. After more furious unfurling, the blanket was completely undone and no child was there. Instead, there was a note. It read:
_Dear Parents,_
_This is too much pressure too soon. How do you expect me to choose when I haven't even taken my first breath? This is ridiculous, I'm out! Have a good life._
_-The Baby_
The Dwarf and Asari were stunned. They looked to the doctors for an answer. One of the doctors awkwardly shuffled closer and, while avoiding their gaze, hands them an invoice for services rendered.
This is awesome I’ve always felt that the good old dwarf is often a underrated character.
“Next video will be out in like two days”, this put a smile on my face.
There was one story I read from a realm where dwarf females were even rarer than mentioned here, but they were always hidden because it was rumored that they were tall and beautiful, not unlike elven females but without the classic elf features.
I just imagine this is a rumor a typical horny human bard tells his adventuring party. Not knowing the stoic bearded dwarf in his party is a woman xD
Beautiful *to a dwarf!*
Those monster classes look super cool, I can’t wait to read them!
"Dwarves are small humanoid creatures with 2 legs, 2 arms, a beard and a helmet"
That's the description I once heard and it's still making me laugh!
The Doom of the Dwarves adds a whole new layer to Bruenor Battlehammer's tendency to adopt humans
Oh man, recognizing the characters in that art, I read the title and was like, "The dark secret of the dwarves -- AN INTERRACIAL BABY!"
me on my way to single handedly save the dwarf race. 12:10
"Rock" and stone brother!
Man, I have so little interest in Dwarves, but every video you do makes whatever you're covering sound like the coolest most interesting thing.
Actually @MrRhexx , In the forgotten realms novels about Dritz, it was more recently revealed that the strictness on female dwarf clergy members seems to be getting lighter or lifted all together. Or at least in the case of Mithral Hall it was.
That's why I wanted to be very explicit about the fact that most of this lore is for isolated dwarven communities. If i remember right, the number for those was 93% of clergy for male dwarven gods were male dwarves. But yeah all these traditions deteriorate the less they isolate, which is probably the case for many of the shield dwarves up north.
I hope you hit goblinoids soon, they always seem to get the short end of stories. Always left as savages at best, monsters of torment at worst. As I try to build my own world, I have fallen for them and wonder what fun I can have with them.
Hell, in my setting I have an entire continent inhabited primarily by goblinoids with civilizations just as advanced as anywhere else.
Goblins in most other places aren't actually evil, but ignorant people still think they are.
Dwarf, Goblinoids, halflings and gnomes...
Ho yea, is all coming together.
My fiancé’s warlock befriend a small tribe of goblins. (A few townsfolk was blaming them for missing kids) well he befriended them gave them a vacant house, hired them a teacher and got them honest jobs. They have now crowned him their king for saving their lives multiple times and making them honest members of society.
Oh we'll hit them, lad, WITH OUR HAMMERS!
This was a great video.
Also, 1 in 5 dwarves are born as twins because of the Thunder Blessing in 1306. Moradin increased the birthrate of all dwarves apart from Duergar.
Revealing dwarf secrets ? oh you better believe thats a grudging.
my favorite race is getting a whole series?! heck yeah!!!
Great video Rhexx but when you gonna talk about the dwarves true feelings towards "tossing"
I am going to explain in painful detail, through a 7 video essay, why it is completely unacceptable and you should never, in fact, toss a dwarf.
You mention the results of dwarven crossbreeding which as far as I remember only applies to the FR. But you ignore Moradin's blessing which resulted in more twin birth amongst dwarves (also from the FR setting).
With the release of Baldur’s Gate 3 I jumped back down the forgotten realms rabbit hole, and this channel has been my bible in recent weeks, love these videos
Things that are game breaking for Dwarves darkvision , and they cannot become lost as long as no body of water separates anywhere they have been previously.
How is dark vision game breaking?
120 feet of darkvision might be overkill, but darkvision (60 ft) isn't too game breaking. I honestly believe that too many races do have darkvision now. Low-light vision should be brought back (imo).
darkvision isn't anywhere as good as normal vision
@@shaneturnes6458 as someone who couldn't stand the low light addition. I hope they don't. All my underground races have heatvision. Cuz 90% of the novels I read and DnD I played had that. 😉.
6:25 sneaking in that dank Pathfinder art I see.
That cover for Monster Classes I is banging dude! Sure, she may want to eat my tasty, tasty soul; what a way to go! Good on ya. 👍🏽
As soon as I'm able to I will be purchasing your PDFs I'm very excited to see and go through it congratulations.
WOOHOO MR RHEXX VIDEO DROPPED
Deva sounds like such an amazing class for a roll play heavy campaign.
Man, I loved your first PDF, and it's extremely useful for my current campaign. I'm getting this one for sure!
YEEESSS!!!!! At last!
I love dwarves! Thank you very much. 😃
I got the PDF for Monster Classes 1. It looks great, no doubt features your thoroughness and attention to historical detail, and I feel I owe you at least this much from all the videos of yours that I have watched. Great work!
It's been such a joy and experience to watch you explode with growth!
I enjoyed all of your videos and they kept me sane during quarantine, so seeing you and all of the other people D&D people find success has been amazing.
Keep up the wonderful work!
Babe wake up! New MrRhexx lore video dropped
A series of videos about my favourite D&D race! I am following the channel for some years now, but I never have wanted a subject covered as much as this.
I am so hyped!
Fun fact. Mules aren't sterile, but if you get a female mule to mate with a male horse, her child will be a normal horse. If the mule is male, then you have to mate him with a female donkey and you get... A normal donkey. The half dwarf mating with a normal dwarf reminded me of this.
Did not fast forward far enough through your "commercial". Once I listened a few seconds to your ghost character i had to back up to listen to the whole thing. Off to buy the manual now. Thanks!
Oh, & the stuff on the dwarves was good too.
This is absolutely perfect timing, i just made a dwarf for my next campaign and wanted to know what videos you had done on them.
Love your work dude
Very excited to learn more about the dwarves. They're a classic, classic fantasy race and definitely super interesting.
Oh, and congratulations on your new PDF. I'm very excited to get both
I absolutely love all your content! Thank you, and you spark my creativity to higher amounts with your videos!.
Lactose the intolerant!
Great name
I've always liked dwarves and the lore surrounding them. That said the only game that I've ever played as a dwarf was Icewindale where I really enjoyed creating an entire dwarven party.
Nice job on the PDFs
I remember back when I adapted "Gargoyles" to the "White Wolf" RPG world, inspired partly by the 90's cartoon. Did ghosts as well, but then they released "Wraith: The Ascension"
I'm so pumped. They've always been my favorite. Races of Stone was a great 3.5 book. Thank you for this series! :DDD
I'm super excited you doing dwarf videos. They deserve the love and I love watching them
I love the monster classes so thank you for bringing them to 5th edition. I might actually try the edition now and I will absolutely be buying all of the PDFs that you make for them.
Super excited to buy your new material Mr. Rhexx. I've almost finished converting your "What they don't tell you about dragon hoards" to a fantasy grounds module. And when that's done this is next!
Thank you for doing a deep dive into the Dwarven Race! A long-time fan of both yours and Dwarves!
Great stuff! Seems like dwarves get the short end of the player stick so I am happy to learn more because I like playing them.
20:58 That is the most adorable dwarf I've ever seen
That was an awesome one, well done.
I personally have a old dwarf character that was not far from all that.
So I go on break. I'm mindlessly scrolling through my main CZcams suggestions trying to find something to watch. I'm too tired to really decide what I want to watch right now. So I felt kinda stuck. But this is exactly what I didn't know I was looking for. Absolutely love when he uploads.
I've been getting into dwarven characters lately, cool to see some lore at the perfect timing too
Another amazing video. Congrats on the growing channel!
If a dwarf mates with a gnome do they just get a dwarf with pointy ears?
What an interesting video, Dwarves are fascinating and I'm looking forward to the next videos of the series.
Great video MrRhexx. I really want to to check out your PDFs and they seem like some really cool ways to spice up a campaign. 👍
FINALLY, a book anouncment! And a series at that. I was waiting for that, thanks man, I have to check it out. Classess for monsters, oh man am I goeing to have fun, after all I have managed to get a group at last
Your Monster Classes pdf looks awesome! Looking forward to check it out ^^
FINALLY!
The long wait is over, my favorite race gets covered by the legendary MrRhexx!
16:54 oooh! That's a fancy transition!
So glad you are doing videos on Dwarves!
Your videos are always a treat to watch but I really wish you made them more often, like once a week.
Just wanted to note, the illustrations on the PDF seem superb.
Great vid! I played D&D and didn't know nearly this much about dwarves!
I just started playing D&D recently, but once I get more into it I'll make sure to get the pdf, Looks* amazing!
Neat PDF, the Ghost class sounds very interesting, and I'm probably going to try to implement it into something in the future.
23:55 that image of the Dwarven Statue funneling lava from the hammer into the forge or shrine is creative as hell. I want to know if there's any lore about that place specifically. If there isn't, there definitely can be.
I am over the moon about you doing a dwarf series. Thank you.
Thanks for the monster classes! This is awesome!
Your one of the best commentator’s on D&D ever.
Really great content!
So glad that you this.
😎
A dwarf series, verry much apriciated. Unlike some monsters that I have no way of using for a long time, this series will be verry usefull in almost any setting. Sa as usual great work, keep at it.
Aak! After all these years hearing about your amazing monsters and you won't tell us! You tease! Keep up the good work.
1:34
There's even kinks. You're somethin else Mr.Rhexx lol
I love your videos! I'd love a video for the general lore of the feywild like you did for the shadowfell. My party will be heading there soon, and I'd love to hear your insight about it
i cant wait until you get to halflings !!! great video man !!!
I’m familiar with some of the D&D lore thanks to the dragon lance books, but I greatly enjoy the lore content here and look forward to each one! Been binge watching older vids and remembered the Elder Brain lore was missing or unlisted :( Someday I’ll try playing D&D again and reference all the stuff I learned here!
This is great. The monster videos are neat, but these help me be a better roleplayer!
Finally I have been waiting for this for a long time
Thanks for this video and congratulations on your book.
Love this. These videos are going to really help me flesh out my NPCs
Definitely getting that PDF, I just spoke to my friends about how I want to run oneshots that allow Large and Huge PCs, even demigods and gods sometimes. Even if dragons aren't included in your PDFs yet, I'd love to see your thought process for playable monsters to help me make dragons playable. *Also, I've been needing a solution for dwarven fertility in my post-multiverse post-apocalypse homebrew setting, where Moradin is imprisoned and yet the dwarves are renewing. Thanks!*
Your new book sounds awesome