In the Team Fortress lore, Shakespearacles, the strongest writer to ever live, invented rocket jumping. A few centuries later, Abraham Lincoln invented stairs. He died while rocket jumping up them.
It’s well known that ancient dwarves enjoyed the practise of banging rocks together through the shins of the elves. One day, the rocks sparked against each other and set the elf ablaze, and that is how dwarves discovered fire. They loved fire, and used it to set many, many elves ablaze.
From that day, it took 30 years to invent cooking.
Dwarfish folding chairs are studded with gemstones and weigh about 500lbs.
They’re a very inventive people, but refuse to work with sheet metal.
Elves build lightweight folding chairs out of wood.
This is a steel folding chair. All craftdwarfship is of the highest quality. It is encrusted with diamonds. It menaces with spikes of pigtail cloth. On the folding chair is an image of a dwarf and dwarves. The dwarf is making a plaintive gesture.
Gnomes would make those folding fabric camping chairs with the cupholder in the arm
In my setting I dropped darkvision for dwarves because I wanted to make it scarce, but even the dwarves that don’t study light or dancing lights use their many lighting inventions that were developed for underground exploration such as flairs and glow sticks, and gas lighting for their main settlements.
I also gave them all spiderclimb just because I like the way that fucks up how they’d build those settlements as down is only a necessary direction to know when you drop something, even their tankards work at all orientations and are basically sippy cups.
Oh yeah of course, if it’s for personal use, always take everything you like from anywhere, and if it’s for professional, I still think it’s cool to take ideas.
The only thing is that if this is for 5e, you may wanna drop something from their stats such as dwarven resilience as this trait is reasonably powerful as it’s effectively a hands free climbing speed which any marksman type character could cheese. One option is to make it the ability to cast spiderclimb at will, so it still has the limitations of requiring concentration (which is entertaining to imagine a dwarven bar brawl on the ceiling where everyone is knocking eachothers concentration out and falling to the floor, just to run back up) and it wouldn’t work in an antimagic field too.
Halflings definitely invented egg timers
They were the first culture to have accurate timekeeping just for cooking.
They needed it, because the other half of their time is spent high, and they kept overcooking their eggs
