D&D 5E It's Dwarfy McDwarferson from the Player's Handbook!

[Xodis]

Also, anyone watch Orange is the New Black and think she looks like Red?

 

[I'm A Banana]

Also, anyone watch Orange is the New Black and think she looks like Red?

All that dwarf ever wanted to do was eat a chicken that was smarter than other chickens.

 

[Abstruse]

I like the art. Yes, she's pale and redheaded and that's rare for dwarves, but not impossible (see the text...she looks pale with a tinge of red to me). The post does look a little awkward to me, but it's only because her hammer is twisted the wrong way. If it were at a 45 degree angle, it would look like she had just finished a swing. Now it looks like an awkward swing. I mean it's possible she's in the twist of the follow-through, but still. Either way, I like that this feels like another move in the direction of "action over poses". Sure, it's definitely a pose. But it's not just her standing there. Look at her shoulders and hips, she's swinging that hammer. And I can tolerate the more "pose" nature of the picture as it's meant to be a representation of the race. So I'm happy.

 

[Minigiant]

Meh. She fits the bill... For a dwarf.

Wake me when you get a copper skinned free maned wood elf covered in mud or a spaced out evil dragonborn with plate and five belts.

 

[Ed_Laprade]

I like everything about this picture, I have no problem with a shaved female dwarf, it's one of the things I disagree with Tolkin about and the background just scream an ancient dwarves mine, you can feel the great troughs filled with molten ore just beyond the picture edge.

Just awsome!

Warder

Tolkin never said Dwarven women had beards, if fact, he never even mentioned them. THAT's where the idea came from. Some wit decided (in the pages of Dragon Magazine) that since none of the fellowship mentioned them, they must be indistinguishable from the men, which must mean that they had beards. I thought it was a joke then, and was absolutely disgusted when D&D made it 'official'. Well, not in my games! NOT EVER!!!

 

[Xodis]

Tolkin never said Dwarven women had beards, if fact, he never even mentioned them. THAT's where the idea came from. Some wit decided (in the pages of Dragon Magazine) that since none of the fellowship mentioned them, they must be indistinguishable from the men, which must mean that they had beards. I thought it was a joke then, and was absolutely disgusted when D&D made it 'official'. Well, not in my games! NOT EVER!!!

When was it "official" Dwarven women had beards? I dont remember it as far back as 2AD&D, which was the earliest I played.

 

[Remathilis]

Hell, even "Tolkien" dwarven women look more feminine these days...

 

[GrumpyGamer]

... (see the text...she looks pale with a tinge of red to me)...

You are confusing tinge with highlight or rosey cheeks. Tinged implies that the entire skin area should have a light red tone which it clearly does not.

This is someones fantasy of what a dwarf looks like in their mind and to call it anything else is disingenuous.

 

[BASHMAN]

It's Ygritte's mini me

You know nuthin', Jon Snow.

 

[Morrus]

Let's not start impugning each others' or the artist's motives or - worse - honesty, please, people.