The Hardest Thing In The World wrote...
Beards for the female dwarves and since most of them live underground, they should be pale skinned. Or just make them blue, "James Cameron's Avatar" blue to make them more distinct from fat human children. In fact, the first time I ran into a dwarf in DAO, my first thought was, what this is a dwarf? But they look like fat children!
Bioware can explain why they are now all blue-skinned with some devious narration.
The Darskpawn have better technology so everyone has to copy it to be as effective. Unfortunately, all this technological advancement has made the dwarf's smurfs.
Actually... if you could manage to somehow play a Dwarf (like as an aside mission or something) I think the camera should be skewed so everyone's legs are like twice as long as usual, and buildings are of warped perspective that leads them to have larger bases and all.
Also, if looking up, all parts of the world should all blend together into a distant point.