D&D General Should Bearded Female Dwarves be the Default?

[Minigiant]

I go by the "Female Dwarves can grow beards but modern ones shave."

Basically

1. Traditional Female Dwarves grow out their beards and look like males when in armor or thick clothing. In their society, a dwarf is a a dwarf.
2. Modern Female Dwarves shave their beards and grow out long hair. Female and male dwarves have different gender roles and the hair symbolizes it.
3. Surface Female Dwarves that live with humans wear human hair styles. Dwarves that live primariliy with other races take on the hairstyles and grooming of the majority dominant race and culture.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

Dragonborn can lose their dragonboobs.

Well, that's kind of creepy. Dragonboobs for dragonmilk, because reptiles give ... eh.

I honestly don't mind either way, but I prefer non-humans to be non-human, as opposed to "Sexy human/animal hybrids."

 

[Ruin Explorer]

Well, that's kind of creepy. Dragonboobs for dragonmilk, because reptiles give ... eh.

I honestly don't mind either way, but I prefer non-humans to be non-human, as opposed to "Sexy human/animal hybrids."

I am definitely biased against dragonboobs. I always liked playing lizardfolk and it's like, they're reptiles or something close, for gods sake, not mammals, the entire category of creatures named for their mammary glands! I get all the "but dragonborn aren't dragon-relatives!" but they really should be I mean come on. The no tails this is also silly (and given how many people draw their dragonborn with a tail I know this is not a rare opinion).

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Do female tortles have boobs under their shells?

 

[Weiley31]

I am definitely biased against dragonboobs. I always liked playing lizardfolk and it's like, they're reptiles or something close, for gods sake, not mammals, the entire category of creatures named for their mammary glands! I get all the "but dragonborn aren't dragon-relatives!" but they really should be I mean come on. The no tails this is also silly (and given how many people draw their dragonborn with a tail I know this is not a rare opinion).

I'm for Lizardfolks not having boobs, but perfectly fine with Dragonborn and Dragonboobs.

I mean, if your character scores with a hot female Dragon who in a humanoid form, I'm pretty sure those dragon ta-ta's in said humanoid form AREN'T fake.

 

[Charlaquin]

Yeah, I've come across that, but surveys I've seen of female players (years ago, admittedly), and asking real female players their opinion suggest it is a minority opinion among female players

Well, old data beats current anecdotes, though I’d be interested to see if that has changed more recently.

 

[Charlaquin]

I'm for Lizardfolks not having boobs, but perfectly fine with Dragonborn and Dragonboobs.

I mean, if your character scores with a hot female Dragon who in a humanoid form, I'm pretty sure those dragon ta-ta's in said humanoid form AREN'T fake.

By that metric though, shouldn’t wizards have echidna dongs, cause if they polymorphed into echidnas they’d have “real” ones?

 

[Fenris-77]

This is very much in the if that's what you want, great camp for me. I don't know that mandating it one way or the other outside of a specific game is useful. I think what the player of the specific female dwarf thinks about the idea would be my guide. There's enough negative imagery around bearded ladies and body hair in general that I wouldn't force lady beards on someone.

 

[Weiley31]

By that metric though, shouldn’t wizards have echidna dongs, cause if they polymorphed into echidnas they’d have “real” ones?

Look, the last time I tried to argue about how magic worked with a Wizard, it didn't go so well and somehow a BDSM dance off with Lolth happened.. So we'll leave the technical semantics up to the experts.

 

[jayoungr]

From what I understand, the idea of female dwarves being bearded started as a joke. It came from a combination of basically no female dwarves ever appearing in fairy tales and a throwaway line in the appendices of Lord of the Rings about female dwarves being rarely seen and often mistaken for males (without specifying the reason for this; it could just as easily be that their faces were rarely seen). I don't think a fandom joke needs to become the canon standard for everything everywhere.

That said, if it floats your boat, have at it for your table.