Do your elves ever have beards?
Do your halflings?

Do your dwarves ever NOT have beards?
What about half-orcs?

RPGPundit

Elves, no, but Half-elves have them all the time, to try and conceal their lineage somewhat.

Halflings have all manner of facial hair, though I do enjoy giving them Victorian-era choices, m'self.

Dwarves typically have bears, unless shaved off in disgrace.

Half-Orc's will grow beards too, again, in an attempt to hide their mixed heritage.

Elves often have long, white beards. Halflings might have well-groomed, short beards but are more likely to just have mustaches or be clean-shaven. Dwarfs always have long, full beards, including the women. Gnomes often, but not always, have some sort of facial hair - usually a thick, heavy Sam Elliott-style mustache or a long goatee. Half-orcs can't grow proper beards, but they likely have an unkempt patch of scruff on their cheeks and chin.

Elves don't have body hair or facial hair. No worry about drapes matching the carpet. Smooth as a baby's bottom.

Dwarves have heavy body hair and facial hair, both male and female. A good lay has big tits and shag rug of fun.

Orcs are misshapen lumps so they get random hair growths, weird ass protrusions and knobby bits all over.

Halflings suck. I am debating adding gnomes back into my OD&D game, and if so, they would be all about the mustaches.

Quote from: RPGPundit;599334Do your elves ever have beards?

Most don't, in keeping with the stereotype of elves being eternally youthful (emphasis on the "youth" part).

QuoteDo your halflings?

Usually no, unless you want to include 70s-style extra thick sideburns. I usually draw gnomes with Abe Lincoln beards sans-mustaches for two reasons:

1) So when somebody sees them they don't immediately assume they're dwarves.

2) Because for some strange reason I think of gnomes as being like leprechauns, which are usually depicted that way.

QuoteDo your dwarves ever NOT have beards?

Sure.

QuoteWhat about half-orcs?

In 1E, half-orcs (at least the 10% that can be PCs) can pass as humans, so I assume that they can look like any other humans. So the whole menu of human appearance is open for half-orcs in my campaign, from Peter Lorre to Halle Berry.

I always felt that drow should have goatees.

Quote from: RPGPundit;599334Do your elves ever have beards?
Do your halflings?

Do your dwarves ever NOT have beards?
What about half-orcs?

RPGPundit

It really depends on the game and the kind of setting I want. If my intention isto run standard fantasy, i tend to keep close to the stereotypes of beared dwarves, elves with little to no facial hair, etc. If I am trying to have some fun making a setting that is familiar but different I may play around these assumptions. For example, i had a group of river dwarves who were very dark skinned, with no facial hair at all. I had halflings in one campaign with thick beards.

High Valor:
Elves (Sidda) can have all sorts of facial appearances as they age. Hair is but the simplest. For example Ulfreor, grew a  snow white mane before his transformation into a full on lion.

Dwarves (Dvegr) have bears if male, but females have no more facial hair than human women.


There are no halflings.


In my upcoming D&D-esque game, Elves have no facial hair, beyond the ordinary fuzz most people grow. Dwarves have beards, but (at this point) there are no females, being they're magical created species who reproduce through magical/alchemic processes.


In my True 20 setting the world of Requiel, has no fantastic races except the PC's, and if they play dwarves, they'll have facial hair--men will have beards, females sideburns of notable significance. Halflings vary depending on type. While Elves do not have facial hair beyond eyebrows/eyelashes.

Quote from: The Traveller;599354I always felt that drow should have goatees.

My evil elves take their cues from mirror universe Spock, so goatees are essential.

Elves, to me, are effiminate, and therefore no beards.
Halflings are just little humans so they can do whatever.
It's hard to imagine a dwarf without a beard, since that is so ingrained in virtually every mythos (although the dwarves in the Death Gate Cycle were beardless in one of the settings due to the dangers of long facial hair while working with machinery)
I don't play games that have half-orcs, so I've never thought about that one.

Ive run it several different ways, depending on the setting.

Elves, no facial hair or body hair (other than very light stuff). More variability in size though. Classic campaign settings (FR, Greyhawk) I ran them in their 5' variety, all others human sized. Half elves depending on which parent was favored.

Dwarf males have plenty of hair, women on par with humans. I never saw the reason to make dwarf females bearded.

Halflings are on par with humans, though beards are very uncommon.

Orcs really depended on if the campaign called for pig faced original orcs or Tolkeinesque orcs - neither one having much in the way of facial hair, unless you count a hairy wart or eyebrows. I always thought the bearded half-orc got his beard from his human side.

Likewise, when running some FR based short campaigns I stayed away from multiple races of elves, dwarves and halflings outside of the original AD&D 1st edition ones.

Elves: beards
Dwarves: beards (always)
Halflings: beards (mutton chops)
Half-orcs: beards (often)
Humans: beards or moustaches
Gnomes: beards

I like the stereotypes. Elves are all bishonen with no facial hair. Dwarves have beards (but not females because that's fucked up). Half-orcs are like who cares they're ugly, but I guess no facial hair if possible. Halflings and gnomes have all died in the fire.

Quote from: The Traveller;599354I always felt that drow should have goatees.

Yeah, Drow goatees all the way.

Dwarfs have beards and no females. They spring from toads when they are exposed to certain magic crystals in the earth.

Elves can grow beards at will or not, as they like.

Halflings are genetically closer to potatoes than anything else, and as such the most they can have is "sprouts".

A "half-orc" is a misonomer, as orcs are created by using fould magics on other creatures and thus cannot reproduce. It would be a derogative term for an orc that isn't completely corrupted or mis-shapen.