It seems that most the people I game with or have gamed with have facial hair of some sort. It ranges from mustaches to goatees to beards to chest-resters a dwarf would be proud of, I would just say it’s a coincidence, but every person that works at the two local gaming stores has facial hair, and most people I see that play rpg’s do as well. I myself usually rotate from clean shaven to goatee to beard, and then my fiancé makes me shave, repeat. Does this run true with other groups/people or are we just a hairy bunch?
Fizz
Nope. Although I share your observations. :)
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I have seasonal facial hair. I sport a goatee with a line of hair(about a half inch wide) running from sideburns down the jawline to meet the goat in the winter (no mustache). I sport just a goat (no mustache) in spring and fall. Summer is usually an all over 3-day stubble, or a soul patch. I like having facial hair but hate mustaches. I read somewhere that Honest Abe didn't do the mustache because the American people, when polled, didn't have as much trust for a person with a mustache. Something about "Hiding the upper lip and having something to hide".
Oh and BTW, NECKBEARDS LOOK STUPID AND DISGUSTING. THEY DON'T MAKE YOU LOOK SMARTER, PEOPLE. JUST FRICKIN' DIRTY AND UNKEMPT. I HATE THAT EVERY D&D STORE HAS SOME MORON WORKING IN IT TRYING TO "WORK THE NECKBEARD". IT JUST LOOKS LIKE YOUR HAIRY, DISGUSTING, FAT CHEST IS TRYING TO INVADE YOUR FACE AND YOU ARE TOO LAZY TO DO ANYTHING TO HALT THE ADVANCE!!!! THIS IS ALONG THE LINES OF THE STEREO-TYPICAL GAMER WHO REFUSES TO SHOWER FOR AS LONG AS POSSIBLE!!! STOP MAKING US LOOK LIKE UNWASHED, UNKEMPT, PASTY SKINNED, PEAR SHAPED LOSERS WHO LIVE IN MOMMY'S BASEMENT!!!! Neckbeards....Gaaaahh!!!!
FH
Got me a big ol' gunslinger mustache and soul patch now, like Steve Brust's, only better--hell, I look like Nick Logue's avatar. When the mustache covers my mouth I'll look like Tom Selleck (only uglier) and it'll be annoying and I'll be forced to go clean-shaven for a while again.
I look absolutely bizarre without facial hair. Right now, it's a huge Dr. Venture goatee; but sometimes it's a full beard, sometimes it's a Hulk Hogan. Always inexplicably red, even though I have brown hair (well, used to).
Hey, I have the "red beard with brown hair" issue too! I have a full beard, but I'm the only one in my gaming group with facial hair.
Hey, I have the "red beard with brown hair" issue too! I have a full beard, but I'm the only one in my gaming group with facial hair.
Cool! Did your mother have red hair when she was young? My mother did, so maybe it's something on that line of genetic information.
Always inexplicably red, even though I have brown hair (well, used to).
Me to!!! I have black/brown hair and my stupid bear grows in this redish rusty color??? I figured it was the irish fighting the welsh in me.
Fizz
Yeah, or at least "auburn" hair. Its been a running joke for years in my family . . . my beard, not my mom's hair . . . making fun of my mom's hair would just be wrong . . .
No facial hair - short hair cut.
Elves don't have facial hair.
Nor apparently did most knights from the tapestries I have seen (though some did).
Yeah man, even the girls I game with have beards...
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In my group, I have a beard that I don't really want (my wife loves it and would be heartbroken if I shaved it off) and one other guy has a soul patch. Everybody else is clean shaven. That's a score of:
1 full beard
1 soul patch
5 clean shaves
And yeah, even though my hair is naturally coal black, I have red beard hairs too. Maybe that's the gamer thing. Dark hair and red beards.
3 out of 6 of my players have facial hair.
3 of them are female, though, and none of those three have facial hair.
I also have the brown hair with red beard syndrome. Does anyone know if that means we possess the red hair recessive gene?
My wife has red hair and we are curious if this means we may be able to have red-headed children.
I think the gene can stay dormant for up to four generations?
hmm, in my current group of 7 players only two, I am one, that have facial hair; one more has facial wisps hehe above his lip and I mean really thin, sparce, long strands that could be a mustache if he had a whole lot more of them. Of us two with facial hair; mine is pretty trim and groomed; the other is more the big beard wild man or religious icon like Moses type beard; heck he could almost be a member of ZZ Top :P
hmm; am blonde so my beard is light blonde; some red (but then I am a Northman); some white; some dark blonde; I call it Flaxen colored according to the definition. The big beard guys is all dark brown; no red.
Ok; am a bit mystified again; no surprise eh; what is a neck beard and what is a soul patch; guess living out here in the great southwest, I haven't heard such terms before. Right now until someone clears this up; is a clean shaven face with a lot of hair on the neck under the chin; kinda wierd and bushy gross in my inner picture; and soul patch; am guessing no side burns, mustache or beard, just that silly little patch under your lower lip; maybe shaved like a diamond or something; am blonde and that part is white so nothing like that would even show up on me unless i got a facial tan or something.
I have a goatee. My group is beardless, although generally unshaven.
I also have multicolored facial hair despite my dark brown mop. Red, white, and dark hairs compete for dominance. I was born a redhead, but darkened by age 3.
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Ok; am a bit mystified again; no surprise eh; what is a neck beard and what is a soul patch; guess living out here in the great southwest, I haven't heard such terms before. Right now until someone clears this up; is a clean shaven face with a lot of hair on the neck under the chin; kinda wierd and bushy gross in my inner picture; and soul patch; am guessing no side burns, mustache or beard, just that silly little patch under your lower lip; maybe shaved like a diamond or something; am blonde and that part is white so nothing like that would even show up on me unless i got a facial tan or something.
You pretty much have it except usually the neckbeard (usually)doesn't accompany a clean shaven face. Basically, a soulpatch is under the lower lip and above the chin hair that is not enough to define as a goatee. When I have one I have a line of hair that starts at about a half-inch wide at the middle of the lower lip and goes down to my chin until it is about 1 inch wide. I like to call it my "landing strip" but the wifey thinks that is a bit vulger;P
FH
hehe; guess she is thinking flavor savor which is what mustaches were called when I was in the service.
Ok; am a bit mystified again; no surprise eh; what is a neck beard and what is a soul patch; guess living out here in the great southwest, I haven't heard such terms before. Right now until someone clears this up; is a clean shaven face with a lot of hair on the neck under the chin; kinda wierd and bushy gross in my inner picture; and soul patch; am guessing no side burns, mustache or beard, just that silly little patch under your lower lip; maybe shaved like a diamond or something; am blonde and that part is white so nothing like that would even show up on me unless i got a facial tan or something.You pretty much have it except usually the neckbeard (usually)doesn't accompany a clean shaven face. Basically, a soulpatch is under the lower lip and above the chin hair that is not enough to define as a goatee. When I have one I have a line of hair that starts at about a half-inch wide at the middle of the lower lip and goes down to my chin until it is about 1 inch wide. I like to call it my "landing strip" but the wifey thinks that is a bit vulger;P
FH
I thought the landing strip was further south starting just below y'all's belly buttons... oh, wait I'm sorry, that's the treasure trail. (it's ok, i've slapped my own hand for typing this one)
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Of the men in my gaming group (none of the women have any significant facial hair worth reporting).
1 (me) long sideburns, usually a couple of days growth but no beard
1 with mid length sidburns and occasional goatee
1 with short back and sides and usually a goatee
1 with various styles of chin and lower lip hair, usually a long goatee plaited into two, sometimes a long flavour saver (soulpatch?)
1 reasonably impressive moustache
1 clean shaven but with long hair
1 clean shaven, short back and sides
No real impressive beards to report.
Neckbeards are soooo sexy.
It seems that most the people I game with or have gamed with have facial hair of some sort. It ranges from mustaches to goatees to beards to chest-resters a dwarf would be proud of, I would just say it’s a coincidence, but every person that works at the two local gaming stores has facial hair, and most people I see that play rpg’s do as well. I myself usually rotate from clean shaven to goatee to beard, and then my fiancé makes me shave, repeat. Does this run true with other groups/people or are we just a hairy bunch?Fizz
Yes - I rotate the exact same way. I can get away with scruffiness with the internal folks, but i clean up nicely for my authors, so it also depends on my work schedule from month to month.
As ever,
ACE
And PS, i, too have brown hair but my beard is white, red, blonde, brown, and black!
At my current game...
1 - a beard a dwarf would be proud of (Lawgiver) (I'll let him
explain the colors)
1 - goatee w/stache (brown hair & goatee)
1 - thin cut beard that trails down from the sideburns into a
goatee (dark hair & beard)
and then me & the other 2 females (all hairless) :o)
Oh, and the GM who can't make up his mind between clean shaven or full beard. (brown hair, auburn beard)
1 buzz-cut guy who has a few pathetic wisps on his chin - some blondies just can't muster any decent beard!
1 scruffy long-hair who alternates between stubble and the mo+soul patch combo.
1 shaggy hair clean shaven (me), but usually with a few day's growth as I labour under the terrible curse of hating both shaving and beards.
3 girls. No beards to speak of.
Heh, I just realized our group looks more like a rock band than the posse of NEEEERRRDS! that we are.
I am currently sporting the Osama Beard
I thought the landing strip was further south starting just below y'all's belly buttons... oh, wait I'm sorry, that's the treasure trail. (it's ok, i've slapped my own hand for typing this one)
Landing strip is actually even a bit more south, the patch left when you don't shave/wax it all off...I'll get me coat.
Hmm...curious.
I sport a dark brown goatee and Mou, liberally peppered wiht grey. If I go the full beard it fills with red highlights.
No one else in the group has a beard of any description.
And to help expand on an earlier thought -
I have naturally very dark brown hair (with the red in the beard),
My wife is a redhead and our daughter is a peaches and cream blonde.
Go figure.
Reggie.
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If I tried for facial hair I'd resemble Beavis and/or Butthead in the epsiode where they shaved patches off their heads and glued said patches to their faces. Needless to say, I opt for a clean-shaven look. I also started shaving my head about 8 or 9 years ago - I'm going to loose it eventually anyway, so I figured I might as well get used to it. I don't go bald, but I get pretty damn close.
If I tried for facial hair I'd resemble Beavis and/or Butthead in the epsiode where they shaved patches off their heads and glued said patches to their faces. Needless to say, I opt for a clean-shaven look. I also started shaving my head about 8 or 9 years ago - I'm going to loose it eventually anyway, so I figured I might as well get used to it. I don't go bald, but I get pretty damn close.
I started losing my hair when I was fifteen and only now have I started shaving it completely bald. It's kind of nice to look my age, rather than fifteen years older.
I like facial hair. A big thick ironic 'tash is fun to see. Shaved heads on either sex rock too. (Except Britany Spears of course.)
me -Shaven head,
Due to receding hairline, not to trying to be cool,
players only one has an impressive beard.
I have loved the odd spot of facial hair myself but with a bald head it makes me look like my head is upside down!
Although I've sported a goatee before I'm usually clean shaven. My hair is 40" long. I guess that qualifies me as one of the hair bear bunch.
I am naturally smoove and thusly do not suffer from back beards or butt wigs.
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Most of they guys I used to play with fell squarely into the "scruffy" category - three-day growth and longish hair. No serious beards, though. The girls were generally the earthy type, with very long hair, dreamcatcher jewelry, big boots and the occasional tattoo or piercing.
As for myself, I've just ended a half-year experiment with a full beard and reverted back to my default hair mode - goatee and shaved head, which is essentially the way I've looked since I decomissioned from the army. 10 years and counting - why change what works?
was boots a misspelling?
I thought the landing strip was further south starting just below y'all's belly buttons... oh, wait I'm sorry, that's the treasure trail. (it's ok, i've slapped my own hand for typing this one)Landing strip is actually even a bit more south, the patch left when you don't shave/wax it all off...I'll get me coat.
Ironically enough, there's a strip club in town called The Landing Strip, it's right by the airport. I wonder if the owner can even say double entendre.
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Ironically enough, there's a strip club in town called The Landing Strip, it's right by the airport. I wonder if the owner can even say double entendre.I thought the landing strip was further south starting just below y'all's belly buttons... oh, wait I'm sorry, that's the treasure trail. (it's ok, i've slapped my own hand for typing this one)Landing strip is actually even a bit more south, the patch left when you don't shave/wax it all off...I'll get me coat.
With all the fat, businessman money he's raking in as a glorified pimp, he could say it in neon.
FH
Just shaved the Bin Laden.
My hair is 40" long.
That's about how long my hair is.
My gaming group:
2 clean shaven
1 goatee/'stache (my hubby)
2 females (no beards ;) )
I like facial hair on a guy, but it falls into the category of long hair on a guy - keep it groomed, guys! Long, stringy and oily is not attractive.
Just for full disclosure purposes, Tegan’s in my game group. In fact she’s the one that turned me onto this board, so now you know who to blame. :b
Since she already mentioned the makeup of the rest of the group and left me to explain coloration. I started out with plain brown hair. By my senior year in High School it was receding into a widow’s peak and I way trying a goatee. I started to go grey by age 22. Now I have the classic donut above the ears all the way around, but I do grow my hair as long as I can. Now I look like my Avater with the added (subtracted???) look of Fizzban's egg-head
As for the beard, it had the primary brown with red highlights (go figure). Now it’s a dingy grey with red highlights. It’s full and I let it grow wild. I wash it daily and have to use a hair-pick to comb it (combs and brushes just tangle and rip hair out…OUCH!). I smoke, so my wife says the dingy coloration is because of the cigarette smoke, but I’m sure it’s just the follicle dye tapering off. She keeps trying to get me to use this shampoo that will strip it’s remaining color and turn it either silver or white. Fortunately for me my skin doesn’t react well to the stuff and I don’t use it very often.
As for the wearing of facial hair…if you approach RPG as an art form (storytelling, acting, writing, etc.) then most of us guys are expressing our “temperamentally creative” side, king of like the classic composers and painters…all “Long Hairs”. Not bad, just a bit off center from the main stream. As for the frequent red highlights, I think it’s from the Cherokee in me. They got screwed so badly, in so many ways, for so many years, it’s no surprise everybody seems to have little… :)
Hey, I have the "red beard with brown hair" issue too! I have a full beard, but I'm the only one in my gaming group with facial hair.
I've got red beard syndrome, but with blonde hair.
Sigh. The best hair I have grows out of my ears.
I can think of worse places to spout a mane.
I shaves me face.
Now I have a really bizzare picture of a werewolf with a bare muzzle . . . thanks Heathy . . .