fastjack
Augur
Fluff-wise, the devs want to differentiate DC:SS from "standard Tolkien fantasy worlds", so Mountain Dwarves were cut in favor of Deep Dwarves as the Dwarf representative for Crawl.Any insight into why mountain dwarves were removed?
Gameplay wise, it's a different reason (DD have the huge factor of being unable to regenerate normally which makes playing them MUCH different from playing MD, even though they are both Heavy Armor, big Axe-using kind of races.)
Here's a secret: MD actually suck (power-level wise).
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tl;dr: Just play a Minotaur and pretend you're a short beardy midget, there's no real gameplay difference.
Thanks a ton for the reply bro. I was just wondering since I normally ran a dwarf for the thoughtless melee angle and thought that dwarves got an armor bonus from dwarven armor (the way elves do?) but I guess everyone gets that bonus. In any case, I think I will start playing a minotaur but pretend he is a short bearded dude