<<Now that beards are a shiftale feature, can we pleeeeeeease get them changed so that you don't lose them on depart? It makes no sense at all now.>>

Exactly how did it make sense before?


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Maybe Hodierna just doesn't like facial hair.

Supreme Bunny Overlord Zairius

Well if on has a beard and dies, we loose that beard and are clean shavin.

Not cool, I like playing my dwarven, barbarian and he loves his beard. But it seems to me if we lose our beard due to being put into a NEW BODY. Why in the heck does one have scars at all. ITs a new body? not Used? Not left over... why can't we keep our beard which takes weeks to grow. We keep our tattoo why not beards.

One last question are there gems or beads <Jewelry we can braid into ones beard> thank you

A long, long time ago, ...the vague IC reasoning we were given behind losing the beard was that upon departing we were entering a new body.

But then there was a change. Upon departing Hodierna was only healing up the bodies of the deceased up to their scars.

So, we asked..."Hey,...if our bodies are still carrying traces of wounds the old body used to have, how can it be a new body?"

And the GMs told us, in no uncertain terms, that our characters DO NOT get new bodies.

Basically, the new body thing was just a silly explanation which never made much sense to begin with.

The reason the beards leave? Because the way the coding is written all growth resets upon departing. If the hair on our heads was coded to grow, you'd wake up bald after departing too.

When we were finally told that we DEFINITELY did not get new bodies, we pointed out the discrepancy with beards, and Solomon himself said he would look into it. That was several years ago (three, I think), and nothing more came of it.


Yes, it would make a good number of people happy. Yes, it would create consistency in the system.

But it has nothing to do with combat or magic, and it isn't a bug which prevents people from training any skill. This makes it not very likely to be taken care of.

Until it is fixed, we can't get beard beads or anything of that nature, because currently any items that are ATTACHED to the beard would be lost upon departing. (This is what I had been told by a GM)

Really, since this isn't likely something that is going to be fixed anytime soon, I don't know why they just do this in the meantime...instead of holding THIS off too.

All beard ornamentation would simply be WORN. Since when we depart, all our things get put in a grave anyway..and we aren't wearing them when we come back, so there wouldn't be any reason for them to be "lost" anywhere.

There are plenty of hairties and barrettes sold in the jewelry stores which don't actually show up in the DESCRIPTION, so we don't HAVE to have it that way.

I mean, I understand that many people want to be able to have their "bejeweled axe beads" worn IN their actual beard description, but where beard ornamentation is going to get held off until beards no longer disappear upon departing...

It just seems silly to me to hold off the entire thing for this one fix which has been at the bottom of the To-Do pile since beards first came out.

Just so long as my character could have beard decoration SOMEWHERE in her description, that would make me happy, at least until this coding bug is sorted out.

~player of Syrath






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And of course this change is rolled in no less than 6 hours after I depart for the first time in weeks. :-P Thanks for the change, Obseden!

<<Okay so a loooong time ago, the dwarves of stone clan were told that if/when beards could remain after death, things like beard jewlery could be possible maybe. Also things like if it is braided on log off it would remain still on log on. So is either of these two things, and maybe more in the works?>>

That's a great idea. I agree, hopefully it is possible now.

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