D&D 4E We likes our dwarven women kinda furry! (aka 4e beards)

[Barastrondo]

A little female facial hair isn't the end of the world. Some of you guys are acting as though you've found out your girlfriend has webbed toes, or a lisp, or freckles, or something truly horrifying. A braided beard can be quite adorable on a sexy dwarven warrior - if it's done right, she doesn't even need to wear a top.

Eh, it's more along the lines of what the players are into. My wife hates the very thought, and I don't have enough emotional attachment to the idea of bearded dwarven females (as in, any at all) to really dispute it. Besides, the William O'Connor piece of the beardless dwarven female kicks ass.

I guess female dwarves with beards are good for a few hyuks, though. Like elves outdrinking dwarves an' stuff.

 

[Kae'Yoss]

How's this?

Horrible.

 

[Klaus]

Beards on female dwarves is one of the single worst concepts in all fantasydom.

 

[Lurks-no-More]

If I can take a moment and claim grognard here... I really hate bearded dwarven women. It's a lame joke that should have been left on the cutting room floor.

Agreed. Sideburns are as far as I'd go with facial hair on dwarf women, and that's it.

 

[Atlatl Jones]

I prefer Castle Falkenstein's way of dealing with this: There are no female dwarves. Just like there are no male dryads. In fact, dwarves and dryads are the same race, and the only way to make new dwarves and dryads is for a dwarf and a dryad to marry and have kids. The female children, dryads, are taken by the mother to live with her in the woods, and the male children, dwarves, are taken by the father to live with him under the mountain.

 

[Intrope]

I prefer Castle Falkenstein's way of dealing with this: There are no female dwarves. Just like there are no male dryads. In fact, dwarves and dryads are the same race, and the only way to make new dwarves and dryads is for a dwarf and a dryad to marry and have kids. The female children, dryads, are taken by the mother to live with her in the woods, and the male children, dwarves, are taken by the father to live with him under the mountain.

OK, that's an inobvious origin there! Dwarves and Dryads? Bizarre!

 

[The Goblin King]

Is that bearded female dwarf or a cross-dressing barbarian?

So glad I'm not the only one who thought that.

Are beards really better than this?

 

[el-remmen]

Count me among those who like the idea of bearded dwarven women, but seriously, it is a matter of setting detail. . .what's the big deal either way? Is this really something these needs to be an "official" stance on?

Where's the eye-rolly smiley when I need it?

 

[the Jester]

I prefer bearded dwarven women (as they wre in 1E), mostly because it halps make the race different from humans. Elves get to be otherworldly and androgynous; dwarves get facial hair and body odor.

Beardless dwarven women are simply catering to masses of female gamers who can't imagine themselves with beards and hence won't play female characters with them.

Do whatever you want in your campaign worlds; in mine all dwarves have beards.

QFMFT!!

Hair on a dwarf's chin is a sign of maturity and adulthood. Any dwarf lusting after a smooth-chinned sweetie in my campaign is a child molester.

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

Beards on female dwarves is one of the single worst concepts in all fantasydom.

Why? Why can't dwarven females be different that the females of every other race? Dwarves are a fundamentally different race, not humans writ short and stout.