Gerp

There was a dwarven village once beside a mine of magical ore, and the dwarves of it dug there for generations and thought no harm. Then children were born to them with skin as hard and blue as slate, who cried at the breast and were quiet only when given a pebble to suck.

The other dwarves drove them out, and that was the making of the gerps. They have a speech of their own now. They eat stone and iron and old boots with the same good appetite, and it is noticed that a gerp who has eaten a strange thing is for a while a little strange himself. Swords slide off them. And it was gerps, as they will tell anyone, who helped the Celestials to wall up the Nexus.

Details

• +1 strength, +3 constitution, -1 dexterity, -2 charisma.
• +60 slash resistance points and +10 blunt resistance points.
• Can eat anything, and often gains a passing benefit from what was eaten.
• As all dwarves: infravision; speaks common and dwarven. Also gerpish.
• Held to be among the strongest peoples for any class that fights.