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20firebird

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This is only marginally relevant, but...
« on: February 06, 2014, 04:28:54 pm »

And probably in the wrong place, but oh well.
The Wither boss (from Minecraft) is a three-headed, flying, skeletal abomination that sucks life from any living being and breaks any block it comes into contact with. Two days after it's release, people started locking them in boxes and hitting them with rocks to make fully automatic cobble generators. You tell me this isn't the dwarfiest thing you've ever seen.
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Re: This is only marginally relevant, but...
« Reply #1 on: February 06, 2014, 10:38:37 pm »

A dwarf is the dwarfiest thing I've ever seen.
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Re: This is only marginally relevant, but...
« Reply #2 on: February 07, 2014, 05:49:43 am »

A dwarf is the dwarfiest thing I've ever seen.

Actually the beard is the dwarfiest thing there is. Dwarves themselves are just extensions of the beards.
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Re: This is only marginally relevant, but...
« Reply #3 on: February 07, 2014, 12:14:46 pm »

A dwarf is the dwarfiest thing I've ever seen.

Actually the beard is the dwarfiest thing there is. Dwarves themselves are just extensions of the beards.

Explain female dwarves.

I vote the sock for the dwarfiest thing that is not a dwarf itself.
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Re: This is only marginally relevant, but...
« Reply #4 on: February 07, 2014, 12:40:37 pm »

A dwarf is the dwarfiest thing I've ever seen.

Actually the beard is the dwarfiest thing there is. Dwarves themselves are just extensions of the beards.

Explain female dwarves.

I vote the sock for the dwarfiest thing that is not a dwarf itself.

All hair on a dwarf's body is their beard.
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Re: This is only marginally relevant, but...
« Reply #5 on: February 08, 2014, 02:12:43 pm »

Cobble?
When it's used as part of the mechanics of a perfect time keeping clock, then we're talking.

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Re: This is only marginally relevant, but...
« Reply #6 on: February 08, 2014, 04:11:51 pm »

Explain female dwarves.
They have beards too.
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Re: This is only marginally relevant, but...
« Reply #7 on: February 08, 2014, 08:29:40 pm »

Explain female dwarves.
They have beards too.

Not in vanilla they don't, thank god. :P
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Re: This is only marginally relevant, but...
« Reply #8 on: February 08, 2014, 11:37:14 pm »

Explain female dwarves.
They have beards too.
The strange happenings that occurred at the moment of creation for your series of worlds are unnatural and wrong.
In other words, what that guy above me said.

All hair on a dwarf's body is their beard.

Code: (Dwarf raw entry) [Select]
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[BODY_DETAIL_PLAN:FACIAL_HAIR_TISSUE_LAYERS]
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If it gets its own body detail plan, it isn't properly connected. Thus I reject your statement, beards and facial hair are distinct from the rest of the body hair.
« Last Edit: February 08, 2014, 11:47:20 pm by BoredVirulence »
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Re: This is only marginally relevant, but...
« Reply #9 on: February 09, 2014, 01:49:37 am »

Explain female dwarves.
They have beards too.

Not in vanilla they don't, thank god. :P
You say that like it's a good thing.
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Re: This is only marginally relevant, but...
« Reply #10 on: February 17, 2014, 05:52:06 pm »

Explain female dwarves.
They have beards too.

Not in vanilla they don't, thank god. :P
It really depends on your preferred source material.  Tolkein (and thus D&D) dwarven females have beards.  Narnian female dwarves, which aren't even confirmed to exist at all, do not have beards.

Personally, I think I'm delving into the raws before my next worldgen.  It won't be long because in my current fort a Forgotten Beast is having my woefully under-prepared militia for lunch.
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Re: This is only marginally relevant, but...
« Reply #11 on: February 18, 2014, 11:16:37 am »

Explain female dwarves.
They have beards too.

Not in vanilla they don't, thank god. :P
It really depends on your preferred source material.  Tolkein (and thus D&D) dwarven females have beards.  Narnian female dwarves, which aren't even confirmed to exist at all, do not have beards.
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I have a fourth-edition monster manual volume 1 with dwarves in it that strongly suggests otherwise.

I still like the idea of ladybeards, which I have modded in.
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Re: This is only marginally relevant, but...
« Reply #12 on: February 18, 2014, 11:19:19 am »

Explain female dwarves.
They have beards too.

Not in vanilla they don't, thank god. :P
It really depends on your preferred source material.  Tolkein (and thus D&D) dwarven females have beards.  Narnian female dwarves, which aren't even confirmed to exist at all, do not have beards.
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I have a fourth-edition monster manual volume 1 with dwarves in it that strongly suggests otherwise.

I still like the idea of ladybeards, which I have modded in.
Haven't seen it since Second Edition, so I'll defer to the more recent sighting.

One that I forgot to mention was the Discworld Dwarves.  In that setting, males are females are indistinguishable.
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