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<blockquote data-quote="Nivenus" data-source="post: 4499426" data-attributes="member: 71756"><p>I think that this is a pretty good race, all things considered. What sticks out to me though are two problems.</p><p></p><p>First of all, having +2 Constitution and +2 Wisdom is more than a bit lazy. It just is. It makes duergar seem less different compared to dwarves than drow are from elves and eladrin, which is clearly not the case. Likewise, giving the duergar "dwarf origin" while nice, doesn't have an equivalent feature for the eladrin, elves, and drow who are simply considered to have a "fey origin" (which doesn't seem to affect gameplay very much at all, if in fact it even does).</p><p></p><p>Secondly, the duergar seem to have more than a few powers here. I know they were an ECL race back in 3e but drow, tieflings, and other high ECL races were translated to core races for the sake of 4e's balanced approach to races. The same should be done for duergar and I'd remove at least one of their racial features - probably the ones that make them seem more like dwarves (I'd keep, for instance, their resistance to illusions, which is distinctively duergar-like).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nivenus, post: 4499426, member: 71756"] I think that this is a pretty good race, all things considered. What sticks out to me though are two problems. First of all, having +2 Constitution and +2 Wisdom is more than a bit lazy. It just is. It makes duergar seem less different compared to dwarves than drow are from elves and eladrin, which is clearly not the case. Likewise, giving the duergar "dwarf origin" while nice, doesn't have an equivalent feature for the eladrin, elves, and drow who are simply considered to have a "fey origin" (which doesn't seem to affect gameplay very much at all, if in fact it even does). Secondly, the duergar seem to have more than a few powers here. I know they were an ECL race back in 3e but drow, tieflings, and other high ECL races were translated to core races for the sake of 4e's balanced approach to races. The same should be done for duergar and I'd remove at least one of their racial features - probably the ones that make them seem more like dwarves (I'd keep, for instance, their resistance to illusions, which is distinctively duergar-like). [/QUOTE]
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