r/dwarfposting

by my beard, this hall has become a marketplace. four of the first ten entries are from wandering merchants trying to sell us their latest indie game. this is a dwarf hall, not a bazaar. I call upon the guards to shut the gates to these peddlers, or at the very least keep their wares restricted. we came for tales of stone and steel, not endless merchant spam.

Around 3 years ago I started trying to larp as a dwarf irl.

I started going to the gym

Eating healthy diets of meat and carbs

Hating elves

I grew a beard and grew my hair out

I recently took up blacksmithing

I'm genuinely happier than I've ever been.

Friends from the gym and new ones I've met from the new nerdy hobbies are the best I've ever had. I feel better physically too. I'm stronger than ever and I've lost nearly 70lbs since this started.

I've got a friend group that goes to ren faires regularly and I'm going to my first next month.

I have no purpose to posting this other than saying thanks for this community existing

Rock and stone Kin!

Fair day to you kin. Our brother u/lordbalto made a call for our aid, and it has been on my mind like a mountain pressing the earth. A kinfolk in need, and yet I had not the strength within me to light the torch and pass it on. But, to you my brother, I call to you now and tell you this:

I came out victorious from a long and dreadful war, and as I rejoiced in my great quest being at a finish, I dedicated the fires of the great forge to you. Back in my home, deep within the mountain stronghold, I fueled the forge to a greater flame than our halls have seen in ages. And in the revelry, the heat of the flame, the wild rejoicing, I thought of you. So here is to you my kin, in your great quest to overcome a formidable foe of Darkness, we drink this one to you.

/ud: It's gonna be okay my man. It's been hell lately, and I've worked so hard just to survive to get to this point. But I reached a beautiful resolution to so many terrible things I never thought I could overcome, and on a beautiful summer day I built a bonfire and experienced my first pain free day in years, and I thought of you. A stranger I never met in my same situation, just trying to get through and using the same outlets that helped me out. So I raised one to you and spoke a blessing over that flame. The sun finally rose on me, and in that moment I thought of my kin and hoped they'd join me in the great hall for this feast of a great day.
Hang in there man. Better days are coming, I promise. Until then, fight the good fight and sound the horn for aid should you need it.

Take a look to see what happens! If you're wondering why I used hammerdwarves, we're in a Reanimator Biome. If we didn't mangle the corpse, it would have come back as a Zombie Bison Brute, which would have been terrifying!