What the hell is up with Dwarves?, Stats... Options

[Crakkerjakk]

Okay, so this has bothered me for a while, but especially now with the hard caps on certain attributes, it has come to the forefront.

Why do dwarves have a lower reaction? I mean, looking at your racial stereotypes, both orcs and trolls are big, strong, and to varying degrees not too bright/pretty. This is reflected in their attributes. Elves are pretty, and quick on their feet. Again, reflected in their attributes.

Dwarves. Dwarves in cannon are good at tech stuff, strong for their size, usually a little gruff, and hardy. Body increase makes sense, strength increase makes sense(although I would start body at 3 and strength at 2.) But willpower? How exactly is that related to engineering skill? AND it makes them the second best spellcasting race, if you count elves with charisma based drain trads. Which is also not really accurate to fluff until this edition, when there's a few mentions of dwarves being good mages. Plus, at least in my mind, the dwarf rigger is a stereotype that I've seen often. However, they're handicapped as far as how fast they can react, which makes them worse at rigging than any other race aside from trolls.

I know it's been this way forever. But does anyone else think that some reshuffling would make sense, if we were purely trying to match dwarven attributes to their cannon strengths and weaknesses?

Here's my Dwarf.

Body 3/10(12)
Agility 1/6(9)
Strength 2/7(10)
Reaction 1/6(9)
Charisma 1/5(7)
Intuition 1/6(9)
Logic 2/7(10)
Willpower 1/6(9)

This makes them not as hardy as a orc, but tougher than your base human. Strong, but not as exceptionally strong since they ARE smaller than all the other metatypes. Somewhat gruff at times, due to being constantly "looked down" upon, literally and figuratively, smarter than most metas, but only enough to give them an edge. The only thing I'm not sure on, is I might drop body down a point and bump charisma back up one, because I'm a little concerned that I'm lowering the charisma because thats how DnD works, and I got my start way back in the day on that system.

Comments?

I know this isn't what the base rules say. I know somewhere in the fourth edition is makes a comment that dwarves are good at magic. But I get the feeling this is a patch to make up for the fact that they've always been better at resisting magical drain, mechanically, even in SR2-3(never played 1.) I never got the feeling this was reflected in the fluff, though.