Quote Originally Posted by Ngugi View Post
A very common answer is that the reason is Blizzard with their Warcraft-series Dwarves speaking Scottish created the idea, and not heard any alternative story so far.
I've kept digging on the net and found that a Poul Anderson novel, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_H...nd_Three_Lions from 1961 might be the origin of the convention. Apparently it was a MAJOR source of inspiration for the original D&D game and it featured a Dwarf speaking in an exagerated Scottish brouge. Old gamers from back then claim to have had Scottish-accented Dwarves in their RPG-campaigns well before the appeareance of "Warcraft".