>>1803679You mean with dwarf a grumpy bearded little old man who drinks alcohol all day long and lives underground in a mining kingdom? That's already an overused trope everyone expects. But take the aspect of being a little dude and turn it into another midget/gnome race idea.
Here for example there was Brouni race introduced in Etrian Odyssey V, playable were they only as botanist and shaman. In Final Fantasy (14) you have those gnome guys around. Both races have child-like proportion, in the male case rather shota-like, but they still can keep the look of young adults without disproportional bodies of real life midget people.