How would dwarves survive the hunter-gatherer phase?

How would dwarves survive the hunter-gatherer phase?

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They can pick high hanging fruit by climbing on each other's shoulders. I don't see what the problem is supposed to be.

adaptation to an environment rich in natural caves, tunnels etc., where being tall is a problem. that seems to be the standard explanation.

They were created by the God of smiths so why the hell would they go through hunter gatherer phase? Is it something that happens to teenage dwarfs?
>fuck anvils, I'm going to gather some berries

If it's so then I guess supportive parents

By hunting and gathering

They won't.

Animals and humans would've slaughtered them

By inventing agriculture right away, unlike the primitive and stupid humans.

>Mushrooms growing in caves Dwarves keep shitting in.

>"""Farming"""

This.

>the hunter-gatherer "phase"
They wouldn't even go through it since they were created in mountains, with just enough wild plump helmets to get their first settlements going.

>he doesn't know what fertilizer is
>pic related

Like that bit in 2001 with the bones.

I'll bite, how?

>fertilizer

Only stupid Dwarves are willing to eat their own shit-shrooms.

You do know how mushrooms grow right?

>be human
>devote monumental effort, time and resources into planning and building an intricate system of pipes and sewers that runs through our entire city
>the system is prone to frequent breakdown, in need of constant maintenance, not available to the lower classes and a huge drain on tax doubloons
>breakdowns and accidents are common and when they happen large segments of the population is exposed to disease
>the system's only purpose is to throw away perfectly good fertilizer
>separate system involving getting fertilizer from cattle also exists
No wonder you only live to be 50.

>be dwarf
>recycle own shit
>turn tunnels into underground farms instead of littering the mountain with pipes
>no need to depend on livestock for farming
>no risk of pipe full of shit bursting
>no shit-shaming
>shitting is appropriate dinner table conversation topic, encouraged even
Honestly I don't even understand why we stay "allied" with you degenerates. At least the greenskins know they're filthy disgusting creatures.

They're small, therefore easy to be hunted

>They're small, therefore easy to be hunted
Oh, like germs!

>dwarfs of the germs of civilization
What an astute observation!

>They're small
>therefore easy to be hunted

>the smaller something is
>the easier it is to hunt it
Is this bait? Because it's really good

Why would they need to? Just about every fantasy setting implicitly has the gods create intelligent races. Just like Adam and Eve in the Bible, except actually real in the setting and not a parable.

>squat
>slow
Their only plus is they are stocky, but that is not that big of an advantage for a hunter if you don't have the speed for it. Perhaps they grapple slow prey or got tired of being killed in the open plains and took being cavemen to the next level.

*tips fedora*

Do the races look so similar because of copyright infringement?

Pit-traps and labyrinths like more omnivorous mole rats. They gather roots and tubers and hunt whatever poor bastard of an animal cripples itself falling into their tunnels.

Symbolic relationship with mammoths

Symbiotic*

>low-light vision
>iron stomachs
>warm, furry skin and long beards for low-temperature survival
>thick, callous skin to brush off jagged and pointy edges, and tiny insect teeth
why would they live in open plains? They're obviously suited for cavernous/underground environments. Are you going to argue that humans should be extinct because sharks would make mince meat of them next?

Humans can't outrun any large predators on any continents.

We can't match them for speed but we are pretty good endurance runners.

If we're going Tolkien Dwarves they are even better (just not in the fucking films)

That isn't how hunting works. Humans didn't outrun anything, they outlasted it. Prehistoric human hunting was just five people walking after an animal til it collapsed. Dwarves would be SUPERFLUOUSLY good at that.

Endurance running doesn't in any way help you against something that runs five times faster than you.

No but it helps you chase and eat it.

We are predators, our eyes face forwards so we can spot prey. Yes some of us get eaten but then the rest of us start to chase the other critter down and eat it.

>mammoths protect dwarves as a symbol
What are the dwarves symbols of?

By making alot of sex and surviving because larger amount of dwarfs that are trying to survive.

They "survive" by this method up to the point they have enought technology to survive by other means

How this dwarf is?


Just a race with dwarfism humans version "adam and eve"?

Industry

>a group of mammoth people who worship a dwarf god of industry long after the dwarves have died out

Fund it

Humans hunted with INT/WIS/CHA, predators shit on us for physical stats. Dwarves would be the same, lots of traps for capturing game.

Example: three lv1 bards take on a CR9 pack of lions.
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By hunting and gathering your wife, if you know what I mean

Humans don't eat large predators.

>Humans don't eat large predators.

We eat anything we get our hands on son.

I think you missed the point about what he first said. We're good hunters but in a simple chase where we're the prey we kinda suck.

Now if you have a group of humans with sticks, we're safer to defend. Same could be attributed to dwarves, who generally have superior endurance, toughness, resistance to certain toxins and equivalent to superior strength

No, we don't.

>Dwarves, being small and hairy, elict a paternal / maternal response from adult Mammoths.

Dwarf mammoth riders would be lit.