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Author Topic: To Beard or Not to Beard, that is the question.  (Read 1375 times)

evictedSaint

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To Beard or Not to Beard, that is the question.
« on: January 30, 2014, 02:51:15 pm »

My male dwarves are the only ones who have beards.  I'm curious as to how other people handle it.

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Re: To Beard or Not to Beard, that is the question.
« Reply #1 on: January 30, 2014, 03:32:28 pm »

Sometimes I mod female dwarves to have beards. Sometimes I mod male dwarves to have no beards, and assume it's something they all have but which isn't mentioned in their descriptions (it's a little strange to have a newborn baby be equipped with a full head and chin of hair. Won't it be all... soggy and unhygienic?). I haven't done bearded women and unbearded men.
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Re: To Beard or Not to Beard, that is the question.
« Reply #2 on: January 30, 2014, 03:45:33 pm »

Sometimes I mod female dwarves to have beards. Sometimes I mod male dwarves to have no beards, and assume it's something they all have but which isn't mentioned in their descriptions (it's a little strange to have a newborn baby be equipped with a full head and chin of hair. Won't it be all... soggy and unhygienic?). I haven't done bearded women and unbearded men.
Soggy and unhygienic seems to describe most forgotten beast encounters in my fort, so I don't see those two adjectives as a bad thing, really.

On topic, I just leave the beard code as is, which means no beards for females.
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Re: To Beard or Not to Beard, that is the question.
« Reply #3 on: January 30, 2014, 03:53:06 pm »

I always give the ladies beards.
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Re: To Beard or Not to Beard, that is the question.
« Reply #4 on: January 30, 2014, 04:47:22 pm »

Why on earth would I bother modding in female beards when I could be using those 5 seconds to do something important, like watching my fortress implode in a bloody orgy of destruction?
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Re: To Beard or Not to Beard, that is the question.
« Reply #5 on: January 30, 2014, 10:51:22 pm »

I always mod ladybeards in. It just seems wrong if they're beardless.
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Re: To Beard or Not to Beard, that is the question.
« Reply #6 on: January 31, 2014, 12:33:39 am »

Meh, since I'm more of a Warhammer fan than a LoTR fan, I like my lady dwarves to be beardless
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Re: To Beard or Not to Beard, that is the question.
« Reply #7 on: January 31, 2014, 12:53:25 am »

I didn't know there were any female dwarves in LotR. I don't know whether or not LotR females canonically even have beards. Nevertheless, a dwarf without a beard is no dwarf, regardless of sex.
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Re: To Beard or Not to Beard, that is the question.
« Reply #8 on: January 31, 2014, 12:59:05 am »

I didn't know there were any female dwarves in LotR. I don't know whether or not LotR females canonically even have beards. Nevertheless, a dwarf without a beard is no dwarf, regardless of sex.

They exist. And they definitely have beards.
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Re: To Beard or Not to Beard, that is the question.
« Reply #9 on: January 31, 2014, 01:00:41 am »

Oh thank god.
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Re: To Beard or Not to Beard, that is the question.
« Reply #10 on: January 31, 2014, 01:10:40 am »

Oh thank god.

Aulė, to be specific. -ducks and runs-
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Re: To Beard or Not to Beard, that is the question.
« Reply #11 on: January 31, 2014, 01:14:35 am »

Not having read the Silmarillion, I'm going to assume that Aulė is the patron god of bearded ladies.
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Re: To Beard or Not to Beard, that is the question.
« Reply #12 on: January 31, 2014, 01:17:11 am »

Not having read the Silmarillion, I'm going to assume that Aulė is the patron god of bearded ladies.

Among other bearded peoples, yes.
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Re: To Beard or Not to Beard, that is the question.
« Reply #13 on: January 31, 2014, 02:58:47 am »

Not having read the Silmarillion, I'm going to assume that Aulė is the patron god of bearded ladies.

Among other bearded peoples, yes.

Aulė was also the mentor of Sauron and Saruman...

I usually draw my dwarves pretty accurately to their descriptions. My female dwarves don't have beard, though I've modded female dwarves to be only 1/3 of all dwarves. And they can't have clean-shaven hair, either.

And in what comes to the beards, I think I have been brainwashed by Peter Jackson. Since I don't think short beards heretic are at all - I actually prefer facial hairs of varying lenghts.
« Last Edit: January 31, 2014, 03:01:27 am by Matoro »
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« Reply #14 on: January 31, 2014, 03:57:41 am »

I never mod beards that are not attached to my face.
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