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Reckless ingenuity.

Beards.

Reckless determination.

Reckless stupidity.

The ability to end all life, accidentally.

The ability to end all life purposely.

Wanton slaughter.

Alcohol dependencies.

Being short/Small stature. (I'm looking at you DZA)

Doing the most inefficient thing possible in the most inefficient way possible to achieve an unknown goal usually not even known by the dwarf performing such a task until the task is complete... And such the goal turns out to be useless, dangerous or both

The ability to admire doors.

The ability to tantrum.

The ability to make sense of the illogical and physics defying.

The ability to make problems out of the simplest of tasks...

The ability to make demons out of the most mundane of animals.

Soap making.

Magma.

Machines and contraptions... Pretty much anything involving mechanisms.

The ability to protect one's sanity with fine roasts and lovely halls filled with golden statues of roaches

Immense hatred of everything that moves. (Includes inanimate objects)... Wait...

Living underground

[Loud Whispers]

No 'all of the above'?

It's for your own good. 50% of all surveyors who picked the 'All of the above' option spontaneously morphed into socks.

[Necro910]

No 'all of the above'?

It's for your own good. 50% of all surveyors who picked the 'All of the above' option spontaneously morphed into socks.

It's things like these that make me want the next update to come out.

Too bad it isn't coming out for a few more months

[Loud Whispers]

No 'all of the above'?

It's for your own good. 50% of all surveyors who picked the 'All of the above' option spontaneously morphed into socks.

It's things like these that make me want the next update to come out.

Too bad it isn't coming out for a few more months

The other 25% became stark raving mad, and of those 90% became berserk.

[Loud Whispers]

Beards.
without beards, dwarves are simply short humans.

So Dwarf women are just Stumpy Human Women?

And Human Babies who are born with beards are Dwarves provided they're stunties?

[Necro910]

Beards.
without beards, dwarves are simply short humans.

So Dwarf women are just Stumpy Human Women?

As we all know, dwarven women have beards.

That's what makes a dorf a dorf ya know

[Loud Whispers]

Beards.
without beards, dwarves are simply short humans.

So Dwarf women are just Stumpy Human Women?

As we all know, dwarven women have beards.

That's what makes a dorf a dorf ya know

Not on DF descriptions though

[Garath]

i refuse to vote until i can tick multiple boxes, 10 or so

a dwarf is not defined by height, as someone might breed extremely tall dwarfs
nor is a dwarf defined by living under a mountain
a captured dwarf where they had shaven off his beard is still a dwarf

it may be a state of mind
its more a case of trying to find what makes his world tick, what is this tick, and how can i use it to destroy people

as T. P. wrote:
Its a pick axe
a pick for if you spot a good seam of ores, and an axe to defend against anyone else who'd claim it

[Loud Whispers]

I refuse to vote until I can tick multiple boxes, 10 or so

Fixed I for you 
This grammar... It pains my brain. Anyways, I originally kept the vote count at one so you would have to think about the single most deciding factor for what makes a Dwarf a Dwarf.

it may be a state of mind

Just like the saying, what makes us Human?
The polls say so far, the majority of bay12 watchers think being a dwarf means doing the most inefficient thing possible in the most inefficient way possible to achieve an unknown goal usually not even known by the dwarf performing such a task until the task is complete... And such the goal turns out to be useless, dangerous or both...

[Jessoftherocks]

Certainty of death, Small chance of success, what are we waiting for !!!-Gimli
It is the dwarfs who go swimming with little hairy women.! -Gimli

[Loud Whispers]

Certainty of death, Small chance of success, what are we waiting for !!!-Gimli
It is the dwarfs who go swimming with little hairy women.! -Gimli

Reckless determination IS GOING ON THE LIIIIIST!

[Bdthemag]

What is a dwarf? A worthless little pile of booze and beards!

[Loud Whispers]

What is a dwarf? A worthless little pile of booze and beards!

No, what makes a Dwarf a Dwarf, you know, what separates them from worthless piles of booze and beards?

Besides, both of those are pretty valuable...

[Monk321654]

What, no one else picked Determination?
Geeze, these guys travel through an Armok damned battlefield just to pick up socks!

[Loud Whispers]

What, no one else picked Determination?
Geeze, these guys travel through an Armok damned battlefield just to pick up socks!

Determination is a new entry

[Anathema]

The essence of being a dwarf is being inefficient... with unerring efficiency 

therefore I chose inefficiency.

But... But why? D:

Being a dwarf = never asking that question.