Darrin Drader
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BiggusGeekus said:
That's only one word, or three, depending on how you look at it, but itsa definitely not two.
Beards on dwarven women, yes or no?
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That's only one word, or three, depending on how you look at it, but itsa definitely not two.
Gez
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Here's the real picture, one that looks like a dwarven princess. Otherwise, it may look, at best, like a human princess of dwarfs.
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Gary Gygax
Larry Elmore in Hospital
Just a quick post to let folks here know that Ken Whitman has alerted people that Larry had a heart attack, is in hospital, and recovering well.
Gary
Just a quick post to let folks here know that Ken Whitman has alerted people that Larry had a heart attack, is in hospital, and recovering well.
Gary
s/LaSH
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Despite my frequent doubting of Larrys abilities to depict pants, I find myself wishing him well. (Hey, my father's had two heart attacks in the past year.) Get well soon, Mr. Elmore!
(Oh, and I voted for beards. Ever looked at a dog's face? I own a female keeshond, and there are whiskers in some very interesting places... it makes sense for a nonhuman to at least have the option for facial hair. After all, I believe the Bible forbids shaving, what's to say Moradin doesn't have an inverse edict for women in certain worlds? Thus opening up all kinds of different cultural expressionisms for outcasts...)
(Oh, and I voted for beards. Ever looked at a dog's face? I own a female keeshond, and there are whiskers in some very interesting places... it makes sense for a nonhuman to at least have the option for facial hair. After all, I believe the Bible forbids shaving, what's to say Moradin doesn't have an inverse edict for women in certain worlds? Thus opening up all kinds of different cultural expressionisms for outcasts...)
David Argall
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no princess
"Here's the real picture, one that looks like a dwarven princess."
Definitely not a princess, not in that outfit. Maybe a dancehall lass. Of course, that would still be evidence for a lack of beards, but I will stick with the points I have outlined and request those opposing beards to give us a reason rather than merely their displeasure.
"Here's the real picture, one that looks like a dwarven princess."
Definitely not a princess, not in that outfit. Maybe a dancehall lass. Of course, that would still be evidence for a lack of beards, but I will stick with the points I have outlined and request those opposing beards to give us a reason rather than merely their displeasure.
I voted yes. OTOH IMC dwarven men often have a craving for beardless human women (as in Norse mythology & EGG's 1e PHB notes) so many dwarven women routinely shave...
On question whether dwarves (or elves) are a separate species, apparently it's now debatable whether chimpanzees & gorillas (buy not other primates) are actually separate species from humans.
John Gribbin's 'The First Chimpanzee' discusses the DNA evidence - basically it appears that chimps & gorillas have to have split from the line that became homo sapiens only a little over 3 million years ago. More interestingly, the evidence suggests that the mutual human/chimp/gorilla ancestor was physically a lot closer to modern humans than it was to chimps & gorillas - the chimps & gorillas are a sort of regression to an earlier, stronger, less 'infant' form of primate (humans being permanent infants, body-wise, enabling us to be great learners but very weak physically), as adaptations to the encroaching ice ages.
On question whether dwarves (or elves) are a separate species, apparently it's now debatable whether chimpanzees & gorillas (buy not other primates) are actually separate species from humans.
John Gribbin's 'The First Chimpanzee' discusses the DNA evidence - basically it appears that chimps & gorillas have to have split from the line that became homo sapiens only a little over 3 million years ago. More interestingly, the evidence suggests that the mutual human/chimp/gorilla ancestor was physically a lot closer to modern humans than it was to chimps & gorillas - the chimps & gorillas are a sort of regression to an earlier, stronger, less 'infant' form of primate (humans being permanent infants, body-wise, enabling us to be great learners but very weak physically), as adaptations to the encroaching ice ages.
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krunchyfrogg
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Gary Gygax
krunchyfrogg said:
No sir,
How can telling the bald-faced truth be inappropriate?
Gary
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krunchyfrogg
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D'oh!
