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but only because dwarves have a hard enough time having children on their own due to their biology.

*Chuckle*

I wonder who started the tradition in fantasy that long-lived races have fewer children. From a logic point of view I ALWAYS thought this was a stupid way to run their world. For example, in many game worlds elves have like 1 or 2 children it seems over hundreds of years. Seriously how does a species like this even survive let along compete with races that pump out like 5 every 20 years. Now if every elf was a powerful as a dragon, I could see it making sense. But as far as I can tell a young adult elf is just as fragile as a young adult human.

One thing I have always done in my worlds is that long-lived races may take a long time to mature, but they tend to have very large families. A typically dwarven couple over their life span will raise like 10 children to maturity, while an elven couple may have like 20+. Since they have time they typically put a great deal of space between these children, so they typically don't have the next until the current child has reached adolescence and can help raise the next (which prepares them for childrearing). The end result is a growth rate that is a little slower than humans, but no so skewed into ridiculousness (elf woman has 1 child about every 30 years, dwarf woman has 2, human woman has 5 with humans having the highest child mortality rate). Dwarves and elves still look down on humans as breeding like rats, because while a dwarf or elf female may have more over her lifetime, human women crowd them together in what amounts to a litter and then haphazardly race through their upbringing.

I run a raunchy campaign, plus I have a super-Greyhawker. So I gave the Stag Lord a c*ck ring made of Nyrissa's green hair. The super-Greyhawker natural striped the body of the Stag Lord clean and discovered the c*ck ring, and it typical fashion for a greedy character he pocketed the ring without telling the party. Well because he liked the Stag Lord's helmet so much he decided to ring would be good to wear . . . in the same fashion. I gave him a dream where he meet Nyrissa, but when she realized that it was not the Stag Lord she caused the ring to destroy itself by bursting into flame (she has a habit of making her tokens self distructing if they fall in the wrong hands). The guy woke up from his dream with a burnt penis and then he failed the heal check to put first aid to it (and save from infection). I told him all he needed was a cure light wounds to save it (so that he would share what he learned with the PCs and hilarity would ensue). But in a moment of pride and nihlism he decided he would not go to the PCs for help and just cut it off. But at the last moment he realized that had a cure light wounds potion.