Borderfort Burning: Dwarves

Tony DiTerlizzi

From the same project and using the same method outlined HERE.

The dwarves here were intended to be a mix of Thorin's Company, the petty dwarves of the Silmarillion, Snow White & The Seven Dwarves, Narnia, and Rumpelstiltskin, rather than the standard fantasy dwarf. Where other aspects of Borderfort Burning leaned into their Warhammer inspirations, I deliberately tried to break away from that here. They are also partly convergent evolution with, and partly inspired by Brian Yaksha's Dwarf and Gnome write-ups.

Borderfort Burning: Wood Elves

Larry MacDougall

“Borderfort Burning” is the name of an abandoned project from 2018. It was an attempt to synthesize my favorite classic fantasy influences (Tolkien, Warhammer Fantasy, Angus McBride, Japanese western fantasy) into a single, small-scale setting — essentially an expanded version of B2: Keep on the Borderlands. The scope of the setting was manageable, but since mechanically I was mostly trying to convert Adventures In Middle Earth (a 5e system) into something like B/X D&D (itself a deceptively fiddly set of rules), the rules framework I was using at the time was pretty maximalist in a way that I’m less interested in now. A lot of this material has reappeared in other projects, although as my tastes have changed the weight given to specific influences has shifted. Borderfort Burning skewed closer to Warhammer than The Hobbit, while the elves in particular also have a lot of the Fair Folk from Lloyd Alexander’s Prydain and the elves of Lorwyn and Shadowmoor from Magic: the Gathering in their creative makeup.