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

[Bluebell]

listen to women... if they say they don't want it, don't do it.

Well... I am a woman, and I'm saying I like them

 

[Maxperson]

For me, dwarves having horns or stone skin isn't a part of the dwarves that I (and a lot of my friends male and female) have grown up with. But men and women both having beards is. And the only dwarf I've seen close to seven feet tall is one Carrot Ironfoundersson (sorry, Discworld reference, couldn't resist ).

 

[jayoungr]

Just put in their physical description that male and female dwarves can both grow beards, though not all do. Give us artwork with dwarven women with and without facial hair. Done.

Keep in mind that the physical descriptions and artwork in the official books are explicitly Forgotten Realms based. I ask people who are more knowledgeable about FR than I am, has there ever been any indication that female dwarves ever grow beards in FR? If not, then adding bearded female dwarf art would be a pretty big change.

If they decide to tie the core books and their artwork less closely to the Forgotten Realms, then dwarf appearances should be said explicitly to vary by setting.

 

[BrokenTwin]

@Maxperson : How did I forget about that magnificant specimen? Shame upon me!

 

[HammerMan]

Here. I made a claim and now I'm backing it up, as I'm supposed to.

The Burden of Proof: Why People Should Support Their Claims – Effectiviology

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Shifting of the Burden of Proof

Making a claim that needs justification, then demanding that the opponent justifies the opposite of the claim. The burden of proof is a legal and philosophical concept with differences in each domain.

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Who has the "burden of proof" in debates, arguments, discussions, etc?

Answer (1 of 6): The burden of proof lies with the person making a truth claim. The default position on anything is "I don't know." Ignorance doesn't require proof. If you claim "X is true", that is a truth claim and requires proof/evidence/justification. If you claim "X is not true" or "X i...

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Your logical fallacy is burden of proof

You said that the burden of proof lies not with the person making the claim, but with someone else to disprove.

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Burden of Proof: Meaning, Standards and Examples

Burden of proof is a legal standard that determines if a legal claim is valid or invalid based on the evidence produced.

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I could keep going and going and going, but I think you should understand that the burden is upon you to prove that claim of yours. A claim without proof deserves little or no weight being given to it by anyone reading the claim. If you want your claim to mean something, you need to back it up with proof.

Another unsubstantiated claim! The player base will now be cut because dwarven women other than the PC might have beards!

Yes. Yes you do. As I showed in my last post, a non-0 number of people exist on every side of an issue. It's impossible to change for all of them. If you want change to happen, you need more than an unsubstantiated claim consisting of arbitrary numbers.

still wrong... nobody owes you an explanation, nobody owes you a google search so stop. at this point you are boarder line harraseing me. I made a statement you disagree and that fine but it does not give you a right to anything

 

[Umbran]

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