Why do female dwarwes have beards? It dosen't look so good.

<font color="lightblue">Because Bioware took "All dwarves have facial hair" a bit too literally... </font>

I've read some books (IIRC, it was Dragonlance series) telling that all female dwarves have beards and are rather ugly. Heh, I don't want to be a dwarf ;) But, surprisingly, dwarves themselves think their femmies are the best ;)

Read pratchett. Specificaly "The Truth", but he mentions it elsewhere as well.

Im sure there are plenty of more canonical references to it as well.

Because they couldn't be bothered to make a seperate set of avatars for them. (The paper dolls doesn't have any beards).

There is no avatar for female gnomish wizards either.

I have heard that it is impossible to create new avatars (you must replace existing ones). Otherwise it could be a great community effort to supply the graphics.

well, from a dwarf point of view what fun is a woman without a beard, you've got nothing to hold onto while doing... nm.......

it is mentioned in alot of places, and I was really irritated by Ed Greenwood when I read the Forgotten Realms boxed set and it said most female dwarves shaved, GRRRRRRRRRRRRRR.... but regardless it's one of the reasons why few people ever identified female dwarves in Tolkiens LotR, and is mentioned in most of the canon TSR books.

It could be a cultural thing. In some Dwarven cultures, females shaving may be the norm.

[ 10-21-2002, 12:37 PM: Message edited by: pritchke ]

Morgeruat - in the appendixes for LOTR i think it is mentioned that female dwarves usually travel in disguise as male dwarves, and thats why they are few people ever identified them

Deximus

<table><tr><td>It's a touchy question--I'm thinking of adding a Female Dwarven Fighter/Thief (or possibly a Swashbuckler), and having to add a beard to this picture --->
might just be more trouble than it's worth. Then again, bearding her would add credence to the "When not at home, females pose as males" thing. After all, she is rather flat-chested....oh never mind.

And depending on her facial hair, I'll have to play with both the Male and Female sets of Dwarven and Gnomish avatars & paperdolls.<td width=10><td><img src=http://img.ranchoweb.com/images/sixofspades/1018.jpg>




<tr><td>Just for the heck of it, here's the "After" version of the pic for my Duergar Cleric:<td width=10><td><img src=http://img.ranchoweb.com/images/sixofspades/1360.jpg></table>

You just try playing Neverwinter Nights (and it's not just dwarves)! Even if you make a really saucy female elven warrior you can still see all the stubble. Horrific!

SoS:
Duergar looking good (did that dwarf used to be ginger?!)