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Certainly it's quite feasible to add female dwarves to the game and as you say it is mentioned in the lore so it fits in quite nicely.

In the Legendary Mod there's far more diversity in races than in the original DS1 maps, partly because of the way they evolved as the original Utraean Peninsula map used DS2 npcs and it wasn't until later that the original npcs were ported over.

In DS2 Broken World it makes sense that there's no dwarf women in the game as Glorydeep is a prison colony. In the Kingdom of Ehb, Glitterdelve is a mining settlement (can't really call it a town) and nearly everyone's been killed by the Krug as well. In the Utraean Peninsula there is Crystwind which is a proper town supporting the dwarven miners. While it also makes sense that there's other races here as well, as they would be attracted by the commerce generated by the town and set up shops to take advantage of all that dwarven gold, dwarven women could be added to the town and fit quite nicely in. In other places there could be one or two hear and there wherever dwarves are found.

The question is do we want playable dwarven females or just some dwarf female npcs? If it's the latter then the stock female body could be resized and scaled a bit so it was stockier with Dllullu's scaling tool. Just resizing the bodies looks strange which is why I changed that method in the Legendary Mod as the original dwarves were just resized humans but looked weird. Then it's a matter of designing new faces for them, which I'm sure Kathcf and bare_elf would just love to do.

If we want playable dwarf females then that's a completely different kettle of fish. Anything other than simply resizing the bodies will require all new meshes and textures to be created, even if the textures are just renamed original textures. Still simple enough to achieve. Simply resizing the bodies will end up with very lithe, petite characters looking more like children or teenagers than dwarves.

Incidentally if you want to see what effect resizing will have and get an indication of what it looks like in a playable character then check out Dark Elf's GiantGnome mod found here http://siegetheday.org/?q=node/1338