dwarves

One would be the dwarves directional sense which is a genetic ability of dwarves to tell cardinal direction just like we can see or smell things.

They can be economic dwarves compared to US or China but are extremely powerful when organized.

The focus is on how they're going to make money as middlemen (and dwarves will sing about their riches), not how their business is subservient to their idealistic educational aims.

Hours of independent study relative greatly dwarves learning from others by several orders of magnitude.

Everything just takes longer to calculate, at once, _including_ the dwarves' perceptions and any (in-simulation) tools they might use to measure this.

The fact that you saw two dwarves is indicative of a psychopathic mind obsessed with belittling others in an attempt to convince itself of its own adequacy.

Not genetic perhaps, but somehow bound to dwarves racially.

But I'm struggling to come up with what genetic characteristics about D&D dwarves you assume would make them inherently good at building things.

You know why Dwarves aren't portrayed as reading books?

Eventually your dwarves get ninja level dodging skills.

What you can't do is call your seven dwarves Happy, Grumpy, Dopey etc the way they are in the Disney movie, as those don't appear in the original story.

The hardest part is figuring out that you can't control any of the dwarves directly in Fortress mode, so anything you want done involves changing the work orders for the whole fortress.

As an ideology, "an-cap" is relatively new and our body of attendant legal writings already dwarves theirs.

"Dwarf" is a different species than Humans, true, but D&D also use the "subrace" classificatin for things like Mountain Dwarves, etc.

The rest of the engine code usually dwarves the performance impact of "scripts" in most games, but GC scans can still cause games embedding other scripting languages to miss a frame presentation deadline, resulting in either a nasty tear or a completely missed frame.

"Dwarves are good at building things not because of some essential genetic racial qualities, but because they are raised in a culture that values building and passes on a certain set of traditional practices around it." Dwarves (and Elves) can also see in the dark and can live for many hundreds of years.

Dwarves and Elves openly hate each other, throwing racists epithets like daggers whenever they meet - think of Thranduil in the Hobbit, or Gimli confronting the elves on the borders of Lothlorien.