Beards on dwarven women, yes or no?

[Buttercup]

Thanks, imagine the horror of a Royal princess who could not grow a beard. She runs away into the outside world, oh the adventures that could be made around that . . .

This is really a fabulous character concept! Now if only I had a game to play in....

 

[Arnwyn]

I voted "no", and generally IMC dwarven women don't have beards. However, there are some clans IMC (mostly isolated ones) where the dwarven women are bearded.

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

By Moradin's Hammer, YES!

 

[shadow]

Not in my campaign world. Female dwarves are short and plump, but have no facial hair. Considering that in medieval times, fatnessness was considered a sign of beauty (eg, if you were plump, it meant that you could afford to eat a little more) female dwarves in my campaign could be considered sexy!

 

[WizarDru]

Big, Fat, NOT Hairy NO.

 

[Gez]

I'd say no, but...

There have been case of real-world beader human women (emphasis on human, as if there was non-human women on Earth). It's a rare anomaly. Well, same thing for dwarves IMC -- it's a bit less rare than among human, but it's still a rare anomaly.


ALthough, if I started a new campaign world, all dwarves would be male, and all elves would be female; and able to mate with any fey or other humanoid, the offspring being of the same race than the parent of the same sex.

There would be otherwise no half-elves (nor half-orc, half-ogre, half-giants... for that matter).

 

[Sir Edgar]

I didn't vote because I think my answer would be, "Yes and no." Dwarven females, in my opinion, would have a greater propensity to have beards or facial hair, but I think that it's not a given. There are a lot of women with facial hair to some degree or another among humans. Why shouldn't dwarven females be denied the follicle enhancement?

So, I say, yes, some dwarven females should have beards, but no, not all of them.

Anyhow, your thread title should read, "Beards on dwarven females, yes or no?" not "dwarven women". They're not technically "women" after all.

 

[Gez]

Anyhow, your thread title should read, "Beards on dwarven females, yes or no?" not "dwarven women". They're not technically "women" after all.

Maybe that's because I'm French (male and femelle are pejorative when applied to human in French), but I disagree. Man and woman are not to be restricted to human. That's just going to be too cumbersome.

Laws, for example. If they talk about what men and women can and can't do, would they apply only to human ? If they talk about males and females, would they apply also to all animals ? If it is unlawful to walk naked in a city, would you then have to dress your horse, and your hawk familiar, and your pet dog, and your housecat ?

If a queen of elves tell an besieged ally she could send him reinforcement, would she say "I can send you 1000 men" or "I can send you 1000 males" ? The latter sounds more like slaver talk.

 

[Sir Edgar]

She would say, "I can send you 1000 elves (or elven males or elven troops or something else in elvish)."

You can't call a female baboon a baboon woman. But it all depends on if you view dwarves as a separate species or a separate race. Though they are called a "race" in D&D, their differences in appearance and other characteristics lead me to believe they are a separate species. It's all up to you, but I disagree with dwarven "women".

 

[Gez]

She would say, "I can send you 1000 elves (or elven males or elven troops or something else in elvish)."

That's longer, and that don't sounds right. Would a human warlord say "I can send you 1000 human males" ?

You can't call a female baboon a baboon woman.

Yes, indeed.

But I see dwarves and other humanoids as variants of human, not as variant of baboon.

They look like human, much more so than the most human-like apes or monkeys, they speak, they wear clothing and have cultures that are very much human-like... Heck, would a dwarf-human love affair be considered as beastiality ?