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beards on female dwarves

Started by tuypo1, March 14, 2015, 09:02:44 PM

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A personal thing. I imagine my dwarf female barbarian without one but don't care if someone I play with imagines her with one.
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Quote from: Just Another Snake Cult;820390Long ago I got asked this question by one of my players and said something like "Very few humans have ever even seen a dwarf woman, so I'll leave it up to the first person who plays a female dwarf to decide".

Fifteen or so years and dozens (If not 100+) of PCs later, the question has yet to be settled. No one in my campaign has yet played a female dwarf.

That's how I do it, too. I don't see a point in defining something that doesn't at all matter to my game. If a player wants to run that route, I'll let 'em come up with whatever they want. I'm not going to waste my time and energy on it unless it is important to an adventure I write.
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4e had the best female dwarfs:



Why should elves get all the hot chicks?

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But, where are their beards? Have they shaved them off?
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I believe it's called a 'Hollywood' :p

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Quote from: PiebaldWookie;820242Females who shave are daring feminists, hipsters who are leaving their traditions behind, or adventurers who need the practicality of a good shave (and are generally part of the other two groups).

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Cue someone protesting the "sexualization" of female dwarves by forcing imperialist patriarchal demands about facial hair on them...
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Due to the Quantum Consciousness of the Intranets merely be speaking of it you have made it so!
Remember when Illinois Nazis where a joke in the Blue Brothers movie?

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 "The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters each of whom will volunteer to live, with his family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, if someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, in the next box over doesn't even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it."

dbm

I also noticed that the 5e illustration of a female dwarf has no beard, so that is the current, 'official' answer to the question!

tuypo1

im just going to tell myself thats an adventuring exception like many have said adventures shave

of course thats just me acting in denial
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If I used this in a setting I'd be so tempted to poke fun at the attitude about female waxing and shaving in humans with proponents of both sides being way to zealous about a cosmetic preference.
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Quote from: dbm;822864I also noticed that the 5e illustration of a female dwarf has no beard, so that is the current, 'official' answer to the question!

That may be the 'official 5e' answer, but fantasy gaming is a lot bigger than whatever the current version of D&D is. I like playing 5e, but the overall art direction of WOTC D&D continues to disappoint. Too much sameness of style for me. I miss the days when the artists used for D&D had greatly differing styles.