D&D General Is there a word for "rule by the bearded"?

[Blue Orange]

Yeah, you've got two standard options, Latin (Barbatarchy) and Greek (Pogonocracy, Geneiasocracy).

German is a common user of compound words and has been used for philosophy, so you could have Bartherrschaft.

Dwarves might be into it.

If you wanted to make an old pun it could be rule by the queen consort of a gay king. (If they're all equal, it's a triumvirate? Duumvirmonomulierate?)

 

[ersatzphil]

Yeah, you've got two standard options, Latin (Barbatarchy) and Greek (Pogonocracy, Geneiasocracy).

German is a common user of compound words and has been used for philosophy, so you could have Bartherrschaft.

Dwarves might be into it.

If you wanted to make an old pun it could be rule by the queen consort of a gay king. (If they're all equal, it's a triumvirate? Duumvirmonomulierate?)

I strongly suspect Pogonocracy would be the right word, given that we generally use the terms for kinds of governments Aristotle enumerated.

 

[kigmatzomat]

Follicarchy?

 

[MarkB]

Goateecracy.

 

[BookTenTiger]

Hairarchy

 

[Seramus]

Uristocracy.

Overseen by a long line of Urist McUrists, who bristle menacingly with monuments to Uristocracy and spikes.

 

[EzekielRaiden]

Given beards are associated with age (since, y'know, can't grow one until you're older), presbyocracy might also be valid, literally "rule by the old" or "rule by old men" (presbus). Gerontocracy would also work (again, literally "rule by the old"/"rule by old men.")

 

[Seramus]

Given beards are associated with age (since, y'know, can't grow one until you're older), presbyocracy might also be valid, literally "rule by the old" or "rule by old men" (presbus). Gerontocracy would also work (again, literally "rule by the old"/"rule by old men.")

Can't discount Dwarven Ladies.

 

[Tonguez]

Barbatocracy - Rule of the Bearded

However Barbatos was listed in the Lesser Key of Solomon, and Pseudomonarchia Daemonum as a Duke of Hell associated with MagiciansWizards (who obviously have beards)

 

[Minigiant]

Can't discount Dwarven Ladies.

But they may shave and lose political qualifications.