Poll: Dwarves vs Elves

Which is cooler?

 

Dawi, and don't you forget it, manling!

 

You're outnumbered 5-1 so far, Elgi...

 

Those aren't even the AoS naming conventions, they're the Khazalid (Dwarf language) terms for Elf and Dwarf respectively from Warhammer Fantasy.

 

The people have spoken!

8-1

 

Alternate question, while the Dwarves are clearly the winners of the thread topic, if you had to live as one race (meaning you would by physically a Dwarf or an Elf), which would it be? Assume Tolkien type Elves and Dwarves.


In this case, I think the Elves are the clear winners.

 

Would you choose being a Hobbit over being an Elf?

 

But Elves are better looking, more skilled and have much longer lifespans. (assuming Tolkien-type Elves).

 

An interesting question. I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss the Dawi... sure, you're not going to be as pretty as an Elf but you still have several centuries of life to enjoy, you're going to look cool with the beard and superior physical strength and endurance. You're robust enough to take hits and deal out your own in return. Plus, because Elves are immortal they're rabidly afraid of helping anyone out for risk of death by the only means that will affect them (in battle), whereas a mortal Dwarf, like a manling, knows he's going to die somehow... might as well die with an axe in your hand helping a buddy out against the hated grobi!

This... being immortal isn't all fun and games. Also, given life expectancy and fertility seems to be inversely proportional to one another in pretty much all known real-world species, as nature's way of controlling populations to stop them getting out of hand, as an Elf you're going to be lucky to have one child in half a millennium...

Plus, if you live in the Warhammer world as a Halfling your home doesn't benefit from the plot armour of just being ignored by everyone like the Shire does, so every few decades your neighbourhood is going to be roflstomped by a Waaagh! on its way into the Empire, and you'll likely end up being brutally murdered because you don't know your way around anything sharper than a breadknife.

As a person physically and mentally I'm definitely more of an Elf than a Dwarf... intellectual, tall, quite slender, very pale-skinned... while this is fine in 21st Century Britain, I'm not entirely sure it'd be much help to me in Middle-Earth or the Warhammer World (except perhaps as an Archmage... learning magic would be fun, but I'm not keen on having Strength and Toughness 3 and a measly 1 or 2 Attacks). For survival in a Fantasy world, I'll be contrary and go for Dawi.