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Should Bearded Female Dwarves be the Default?
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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 7992468" data-attributes="member: 18"><p>It's obviously up to individual tables, but its not the norm in 5E (or indeed, any recent edition) as a default, because in general (individual exceptions apply) female players don't particularly like the idea that if they play a female dwarf, they should have a beard, which is typically regarded as a male secondary sexual characteristic/identifier. It's pretty much equivalent to all male elves having small-but-noticeable and feminine boobs as a default. Yeah, some people would be down with that. Some people would think it was awesome (and not necessarily the people you might expect), but some people would not enjoy it. And the default design of 5E is intended to make the game fun for the players, not to cause giggles for people not playing those genders of characters.</p><p></p><p>But to be clear, it isn't the default in 5E outside of Exandria. There may be specific settings where it is, but they're an exception to the default. I've literally heard people ask "why do so few female players play dwarves?" and pretty much everyone I've ever come across asking this has then admitted that they make female dwarves have beards in their campaign, and it's like, hmmmmm, what an astounding mystery. One for Sherlock Holmes for sure.</p><p></p><p>I mean, to be totally honest, I think it would be fine, but I think if you go there, you should really "blow the lid off" things in terms of races not being just "different-looking humans who live really long". All elves being able to change gender (even if they choose not to) is always cool. Dragonborn can lose their dragonboobs. And so on.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 7992468, member: 18"] It's obviously up to individual tables, but its not the norm in 5E (or indeed, any recent edition) as a default, because in general (individual exceptions apply) female players don't particularly like the idea that if they play a female dwarf, they should have a beard, which is typically regarded as a male secondary sexual characteristic/identifier. It's pretty much equivalent to all male elves having small-but-noticeable and feminine boobs as a default. Yeah, some people would be down with that. Some people would think it was awesome (and not necessarily the people you might expect), but some people would not enjoy it. And the default design of 5E is intended to make the game fun for the players, not to cause giggles for people not playing those genders of characters. But to be clear, it isn't the default in 5E outside of Exandria. There may be specific settings where it is, but they're an exception to the default. I've literally heard people ask "why do so few female players play dwarves?" and pretty much everyone I've ever come across asking this has then admitted that they make female dwarves have beards in their campaign, and it's like, hmmmmm, what an astounding mystery. One for Sherlock Holmes for sure. I mean, to be totally honest, I think it would be fine, but I think if you go there, you should really "blow the lid off" things in terms of races not being just "different-looking humans who live really long". All elves being able to change gender (even if they choose not to) is always cool. Dragonborn can lose their dragonboobs. And so on. [/QUOTE]
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