D&D General Elves, Dwarves, Gnomes and Halflings of Color

[Vaalingrade]

Mesoamerica luchador dwarves should ride tapirs, not llamas, IMO.

Thanks to player generated plot, there is a troupe of legendary protectors of one small region IMC.

They are luchador ogres. Luchadogres.

Of course, until I do a lot of research and discussion, they're never going into anything official.

 

[Voadam]

I have a Mexican friend who always laughs that fantasy cultures (or characters in general) based on Mexican tropes somehow seem to constantly be given dinosaurs as one of their "things". See: King of Fighters, Magic the Gathering, and there must be others but none are coming to mind right now...It's just one of those things that Mexico has apparently been associated with, despite a surprising dearth of dinosaurs in modern or historical Mexico.

Warhammer traditionally has the area of Fantasy South America to Mexico being the domain of dinosaur riding lizard men who work for super sorcerer ancient one/Slaan frog men.

 

[Voadam]

Really?

Mexico: Dinosaur Fossils - EnchantedLearning.com

Mexican Dinosaur Fossils. See which dinosaur fossils have been found in Mexico.

www.enchantedlearning.com

. . .

And dinosaurs in South America:

Neodinosaurs in the Amazon Basin

Neodinosaurs have been reported from the Amazon Basin, principally Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, and Peru, since the late 19th Century.[1] Descriptions from South America are uniformly vaguer than the more famous neodinosaurs of central and west Africa, and no local names for any South American...

cryptidarchives.fandom.com

I think all of that is pre-history Mexico and South America.

 

[slobster]

I think all of that is pre-history Mexico and South America.

Yeah exactly, there as many living dinosaurs associated with Mexican culture as there were with Renaissance Italy or the Kush Empire, but somehow it's Mexico that gets the fantasy dinosaur trope!

I mean it's not really a bad thing, dinosaurs are awesome. It's just kinda funny.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Yeah exactly, there as many living dinosaurs associated with Mexican culture as there were with Renaissance Italy or the Kush Empire, but somehow it's Mexico that gets the fantasy dinosaur trope!

I mean it's not really a bad thing, dinosaurs are awesome. It's just kinda funny.

It’s because Mexico was a “new world”. Dinos fill in for dragons and sea monsters.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Mesoamerica luchador dwarves should ride tapirs, not llamas, IMO.

Wrong terrain.

 

[Faolyn]

Is sort of a double entendre (mythical-wise) as an alternate old English name for fairies was "farises" or "farisees"

Deliberate on the writers' part, or just a coincidence?

 

[doctorbadwolf]

True of humans, but not necessarily Dwarves. They may be human-like in appearance, but they aren’t humans.

Of course, Dwarven poison resistance has limits. IME, most tables allow Dwarves to get drunk.

I'd say it's arguable whether inebriation is necessarily a poisoned state.

 

[Vaalingrade]

I'd say it's arguable whether inebriation is necessarily a poisoned state.

I mean in real life it's definitely the result of being poisoned by consuming the byproduct of rotting fruit. Humans are just so dumb and determined that we just decide warning signs not to consume things mean they're awesome.

See also hot peppers and hallucinagenics (sp?).

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

Yeah exactly, there as many living dinosaurs associated with Mexican culture as there were with Renaissance Italy or the Kush Empire, but somehow it's Mexico that gets the fantasy dinosaur trope!

I mean it's not really a bad thing, dinosaurs are awesome. It's just kinda funny.

Well, if you count birds as living dinosaurs (because, technically, they are), then Mexico does have more dinosaurs (at least species-wise) than Italy.