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[Loud Whispers]

I hate you

And variations of adamantine on bay12 make my eyebrows bleed.

My eyebrows are not meant to bleed.

[The Dog Delusion]

I'm not even totally sure how dwarves work the stuff.

Probably just some blacksmith secret that's embedded in every dwarven mind. Just like the fact dwarves can set up walls impossibly fast, build levers out of a single mechanism, and create atom smashers.

I like to have my "suspension of disbelief" sort of pinpointed on this area: dwarves are master blacksmiths, and so it should definitely not be a problem for dwarves to smith with a material that seems physically impossible to us humans...especially in a game where unicorns and necromancers exist.

[kaijyuu]

It's the same reason you can walk across the world in a JRPG without ever stopping for supplies. Some things are just tedious and are best skipped and ignored, despite the lack of realism.



If you must retain suspension of disbelief, then dwarves use tools as you would expect them to. They obtained said tools off-screen somehow; how is best left to your imagination. If you're watching a movie and there's a time skip between morning and evening, you don't have to know what the characters had for lunch, as telling you that would slow down the movie unnecessarily. Similarly, you don't have to know how dwarves gained tools when that particular detail was skipped to make the gameplay flow better.


http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheLawOfConservationOfDetail

We have 42 minutes. If we give a detail, it better be important.

Same can be said of game mechanics.