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[Skooma]

Say our Dwarves develop technology similar to ours, still living underground but with electricity from fission reactors.

There could be programming labor or they could do on their own time.

Suddenly, one Dwarf gets into a fey mood, no big deal as that happens every year. But this one makes a masterpiece video game called Human Fortress.

Productivity instantly drops as Dwarfs stop doing anything but play this game.

[McDoomhammer]

Your mind works in strange ways  

[Keilden]

Then dwarfs would start wars against elf to get their oi..ore.

[Tigerbunny]

not to forget the tax collector mandating the construction of some dolomite SUVs

[umiman]

And it would mark the return of guild representatives except now they're called lobbyist groups and they want 200% subsidies on farm products coupled with import tariffs.

And your prime minister is bugging you to ratify the North Middle Earthen Trade Agreement as well as the Helms Deep Accord.

And that's not to say much about the scandal you currently have concerning that affair with the peanut butter that has been vilified all throughout modern media.

[Keilden]

And every dwarf in your fort will mandate that you build 1 gun for them.

[Skooma]

Cho Seung Hui has gone berserk!
(35 people die)
Cho Seung Hui has been struck down!

[Puzzlemaker]

I actually thought about this...

Modern dwarves would be the kings of modern equipment and technology.  They would keep their secrets closely guarded, and would live mostly underground.  The dwarven cities would spread miles underground, and be connected via trams.  They wouldn't bother many.  Human's and other species would bring huge caravans of trucks filled with goods that the dwarves can't produce, like wooden crafts and wood, some types of food that can't be grown underground easily, and technological tidbits that the dwarves might be interested in.

[Hyperturtle]

As a human king, I now mandate dropping in nerve gas into your fortress, and then bombing shut the entrances and exits.  Oh sure you can dig your way out, but we've gotten good at whack-a-mole.

[umiman]

The bunker busters are ready sir!