Beardless combat rules...

[cr0m]

It's *obvious* to anyone paying attention that Wotc is prejudiced against beardless gaming, and 4e continues this trend. A quick perusal of the attached screenshots proves my point.

The question is, can 4e be played beardless?

 

[Voss]

This would be funnier if 'beardy' didn't mean 'powergaming' in Wargaming circles. As it is, I'm just puzzled which point you're trying to make.

 

[keterys]

Well, they do have that whole video and book about women gaming _and_ they removed beards from dwarven women... so they're at least _claiming_ you can.

I'd imagine you lose some dorito/cheeto optimization so powergamers will stick with having a beard, though.

 

[Simm]

This would be funnier if 'beardy' didn't mean 'powergaming' in Wargaming circles. As it is, I'm just puzzled which point you're trying to make.

I think he was riffing off of the "you cant play 4e wihout a grid" people. Initially I thought that he meant you have to powergame too, thankfully I was wrong.

 

[drjones]

Beards are for posers, NECK beards are the true sign.

 

[Rex Blunder]

It can be done - Noonan says it's possible, although he admits he hasn't tried it. Perkins is way into it though.

You have to adopt a more "theater of the mind" approach, though. It will probably go something like this:

Player: Am I close enough to fight any of the orcs?
DM: You're close to the clean-shaven orc, and the babyfaced orc and the female orc are on the other side of the room.
Player: I attack the orc with the flowing, Zeus-like beard.
DM: The orc closest to you is clean-shaven.
Player: OK, I attack the orc with the well-manicured Van Dyke and curled moustachios.
DM: None of the orcs have beards.
Player: Then how come all of the minis are Sages?

If you trust your DM enough, it CAN be done; it just takes a little extra work.

 

[HeinorNY]

Minis, grid and now a beard? What else will we need?

 

[cr0m]

This would be funnier if 'beardy' didn't mean 'powergaming' in Wargaming circles. As it is, I'm just puzzled which point you're trying to make.

Shoot, I didn't know that slang. I tried.

edit: for the record, there was a thread titled "boardless combat rules" at the top of the forum when I posted this.

edit2: /me high fives Rex

 

[jaelis]

I wonder if dragonborn have beards?

 

[GoodKingJayIII]

If they can have boobs, I posit they can also have beards.

Perhaps that can have both boobs and beards at the same time.

But that might make them too similar to dwarves.