Teach me about fantasy armor, Veeky Forums

Teach me about fantasy armor, Veeky Forums

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How do you like it when the catgirl paladin takes off her full plate armor and dresses up in a poofy gown, because she has to attend a fancy ball?

My rule of thumb: even if there's magic in the world, and that chainmail bikini is enchanted, would wearing a simple gambeson protect you more if magic would ever fail? If the answer is yes, no chainmail bikinis for you.

I mostly let it slide for sorcerers or whatnot, as they can be arrogant and so assured in their own invulnerability that they would want to wear some sexy clothes for the sake of showing off.

Whatever I think looks the best is the standard. Same reason I don't let players pick half orcs or other ugly races, and the same reason I give out bonus XP/Feats for playing cute gis: it's my show to run and if you got a problem with it you're welcome to start up your own game.

I believe I have a copy pasta saved somewhere that pertains to this conversation.

What if her full plate armour is the gown? Checkmate, atheists.

So you're saying fighters can't be arrogant and self-assured, or completely trusting in the magic of their companions?

Don't get me wrong, I think bikini armor is stupid outside of settings where it can be enchanted to deflect swords, but in them, it's basically just a stylistic choice.

That's not cute though.

Needs full armour to begin with and isn't embarrassed to be in a formal dress. Can transition from Knightly to Formal easily, since they're not that different.

Though I believe there are more folks who like when they're embarrassed or become a complete waifu when they go to a ball.

Well, most fighter trained hard before becoming high-level adventurers, so they know how easy it is to die from a single arrow.

But yeah, I agree, nothing is stopping people from wearing skimpy outfits if they think that magic will protect them. I mean, real history knows many examples of overconfidence that led to defeat.

>isn't embarrassed to be in a formal dress
>ISN'T

You're doing it all wrong.

I prefer cuirasses and 19th century uniform to look neat on my tomboyish knights.

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I have that issue.

What is it?

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What's so embarrassing about wearing a ball gown?

Everything.

>its girly
>its for demsels in distress who can't take care of themselves
>its too puffy
>it makes my ass look big
>it's not like i dressed up for you, b-baka!

etc.

Vulnerability issues centered around fancy or long dresses as opposed to pants, shorts, or short skirts. I'd be more comfortable naked in public than wearing a ball gown in the privacy of my own room, which I about the only place I'd ever wear one.

My girlfriend thinks it's totally cute. I hate it.

How about you wear one then huh, punk? Try not being embarrassed, I'll be here waiting.

And the petticoats or hoopskirts.

>not wearing beautiful dress-like armor that is versatile and fitting for all occasions, be it a gruesome dungeon crawl or an elegant ball

No feelings of vulnerability there.

Fantasy armor can be as silly as it as the people who make it want to be. All you have to do is say a wizard enchanted it to act like full plate and BAM you got bikini armor = to full plate.

>all those people who killed themselves just to not exist in DM's magical realm

>All you have to do is say a wizard enchanted it to act like full plate and BAM you got bikini armor = to full plate.
Or you can just be a grown-up and say that you like the way chainmail bikinis look without scrambling for justification.

You missed one.
>it's breezy down there

sorry i put any logic into this. i wasnt stating my reason just a way it could make since. you fucking cunts.
i actually prefer full plate. the more plate the better if you ask me.
but no lets make it only about fetishes and magical realms. we cant teach people past the our own ignorance.

I like it very much.

I want dat shield

My last character didn't like wearing dresses because they made her feel like a 'liar'. She felt like she was a warrior first, above anything else, before even being a Nightling (the artificially created formerly-slave race she was part of), or a woman, she was a student of battle. Wearing a dress, or anything else that could impede her movements, was lying to herself and those around her. She somewhat moved past that as she traveled the world and saw the different parts of it and different cultures, but she still preferred to wear clothes she could easily fight in.

is this op posting /a/ or a thinly vailed request for chainmail bikini fapfest?

>Teach me about fantasy armor, Veeky Forums

I'm going to choose to answer this question seriously, which is probably a mistake. Put simply, the man makes the legend. The power within has a lot more to do with what the gear looks like or what it's made of. Being a Hero just isn't the same as being a normal person. A normal guy gets stabbed and dies unless he's got some metal between his gooey bits and the thing what's stabbing him. But if you're a Hero whose "power within" is being tough as hell, so long as something's "armor" to you, it's only gonna make you tougher no matter what material or coverage the "armor" in question is. Like, you know how Saint George's Ascalon completely killed the fuck out of a dragon? Do you think that happened because Ascalon was a miraculous magical weapon? Or do you think that happened because Saint George was the miraculous magical man who happened to be holding the weapon? Same deal.

And sure, things get a little nutty once magic gets involved, but it's still the same basic principle. It doesn't matter if the armor looks like a suit of plate and mail, a bikini or even a business suit because, strictly speaking, it's not really armor. Some dingbat wizard just went and took a fortress with all of its defensive abilities and toughness and protective qualities, and "magicafied" it into the size and shape of something a person could wear. So it doesn't really matter what it looks like. So long as a person is wearing it, they may as well be standing inside of a fortress.

Actual medieval armor was sloped so that weapons slide away. Having a portion of it bent so it's slides into is inefficient, but yea it's still not REEE INSTANT DEATH.

Chainmail bikinis are actually underwear. Think a solid steel brassiere. Wearing it without an actual breastplate is actually a common mistake that actual professionals scoff at.

what if there is no cleevage between mountain number 1 and mountin nomber 2?

Is there fucking, or is it just tits and fanservice?

its not hentai

>How do you like it when the catgirl paladin takes off her full plate armor and dresses up in a poofy gown, because she has to attend a fancy ball?

I fucking *love* fancy ball sessions.

It forces everyone to actually think outside of combat.

Then you just pack them into a regular sloped armor and be done with it.

Seriously, it has enough space. That shit looks like a fucking ship prow.

Nothing explicit but loads of nudity.

Then what's even the point of boob armor?

>It forces everyone to actually think outside of combat.
>implying

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>Ballroom sessions
Fuck. Yes.
Diplomacy, awkward social interaction and alcohol.

I've had two super memorable goes at it in two different campaigns.

One as the party bard and diplomancer I had to woo more diplomats than my evil counterpart without more than verbal sparring. Great fun.

Second as a Wizard with a past as a court adviser trying to keep the more rough and tumble party in check while dealing with the advances of a totally not vampire countess

Good times.

In Shattered Lands, there's actually a justification for this; arcane spells create heat, so mages wear skimpy clothes to cool off.

>Not worshipping itzpalt

Is this unit too scantily clad for you.
MODULUS (spaketh: "Teehee.")

there is a porn version
by the same artist

This is a blue boad you degenerate!

Talking about this excuse, I'd better have enchanced regular bikini for my char. To get more comfort than metal g-strings, while keeping the visual impact.

Whoa.

I'd rather worship Lulwy's ass.

Enjoy getting your ass kicked by any kid with fire bolt.

To be fair you'd most likely wrap the armored bikini parts in padding like a brigantine armor, maybe even cover them in silk or swade, either of which would give a delightful feeling as they rubbed against your nipples and groins as you moved about in them.

>Teach me about fantasy armor, Veeky Forums

Reminds me of that one game where the planet was safed because of the tramp stamp your MC got when they infiltrated a brothel earlier in the story.

>Teach me about fantasy armor, Veeky Forums
You're asking why I'm wearing the armor all the time?
The armor isn't there to protect me.
It's there to protect my enemies.

I need a source on that game

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Seconded, I like it because I find it more aesthetically pleasing.

I just had a weird idea of experimenting with this as sort of an underlying thing with a setting:

In the setting, women were blessed by a warrior deity (or some shit like that) some time ago so that as long as they had iron, steel, or any other non-decorative metal on their person, they would be protected as well as wearing a full suit or armor.

While this doesn't necessarily mean women run around in chainmail bikinis, it does mean they could actually go into battle wearing even less (a steel choker and a smile).

This might mean women end up favored for military purposes because it's easier to equip women than men (who are not protected by this blessing)

And that's about all I got.

I'm just imagining that in setting, the original creator of lingerie armor is baffled by all these women wearing their underclothes enchanted for full body protection.

I mean, yeah you can technically do that, but the original intent was something that could be discreetly worn under any day to day clothes.

Mind you, they're not complaining either. Just pleasantly confused as to how the current situation developed despite having enabled it.

This is a decent compromise granted that she carries a shield in-battle.

Depends on which fantasy tradition you're talking about.

In western fantasy, armor has a historical precedent in medieval history and thus serves a purpose: it blocks blows that would have otherwise killed you.

Due to the demands of visual storytelling however, not everyone can go around in full plate with a great big steel helmet. So they start stripping down to the essentials: a breastplate, usually. Maybe some gloves.

In the eastern tradition armor was a sign that one expected to get hit, and thus portrayed a lack of confidence in one's martial skills (the best defense is not getting hit). So they usually just wear nice looking clothes and maybe some pauldrons (check out some of the crazy shit court nobility used to wear).

>In the eastern tradition armor was a sign that one expected to get hit, and thus portrayed a lack of confidence in one's martial skills (the best defense is not getting hit).

>They only want to be swift as the winds
>They don't want to also be as enduring as the mountain

These people failed to grasp their own philosophies.

A true master of the manly arts.

Eh, I know it's popular to like girls becoming jibbering bags of emotion when forced into a dress, but... I like confidence.

Warrior girl strips out of bloody full plate, cleans it off, then marches into the ball in a frilly gown with her head held high? Yes please, I love a woman who knows what she wants.

I am totally stealing that second idea, thank you

Huh, this is a genuinely pragmatic approach. I mean, if you can have the defensive capabilities, light weight and comfortability, why wouldn't you wear them? Also if they were worn under heavy clothing, sudden assassination attempts would be hard to confirm if they succeeded in the end.

Stealing it

Why not wear plate over a ballroom-worthy gown?

Somehow, I just see this playing out in my mind:

>"Are you uncomfortable in that ballgown, captain?"
>"I'm mostly worried about my ability to fight, thankfully, I'm still protected."
>She tears off her dress revealing her armor under it.
>"I've taken precautions."
>She then tears off her armor revealing another ballgown.
>"Both for combat and social emergencies."

Why not both?

Hi.

God I love the characters in RF4. It's so rare that non-romantic interests in these kinds of games are good.

Forte is probably Best Girl though. I normally don't like the "waaah, I'm a tomboy, I can't be seen doing anything feminine", but Forte skirts that nicely by simply avoiding anything unbecoming of a knight (or Dame), or at least trying to. Is it so much to ask for to want a female warrior who is actually feminine in both appearance and behavior without her constantly blushing about it?

>Due to the demands of visual storytelling however, they start stripping down
this is basically it for almost all media

the less conspicuous form is "no facial protection", which is prominent at anime illustrations such as this oneeven at "capeshit" flicks lately the actor will unmask himself just to show it's him doing the part, though in-universe that was a terrible move if they were so worried about secret identities

then there's both cheescake and beefcake, which are basically a show on the artist's anatomy prowess. they're a classic and here to stay

and then there's "cool/scary but impractical": super huge pauldrons and pointy elements everywhere that are supposed to poke on your enemies but could poke yourself with them as well

what's the problem with it? it's visually appealing, but when it comes to the eternal balance between fluff and crunch, many crunch-sided players will think "great since this armor sucks then i get bonus if i hit specific weak points". no one cares how a character looks but what benefit they can take from it because it's a game and some people play to win.
you can get away by fluffing it with "magic powers" and "it raises Charisma" but would not be happy at all with it, nope can't do

there's a lot of japanese examples so i looked up for western movie ones

I bet they've not even considered being as strong as a raging fire, or as mysterious as the dark side of the moon.

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>female skirts

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>that fucking face on the right page

which one

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right page, so he's probably talking about how the guy on the horse seems like this is the happiest moment of his life.

>male skirts
>Not wearing full bronze, men's dresses.

Pfft, it's like you want to be able to walk under your own power.

Sauce?

note that it appears to be from whatever this is also from - I want noted the ginger guy who appears to have tried and failed at cullottes on the left, and Bello Jaunty-Hat on the right who appears to be sporting a zulu leather sheild and what looks like the arrow head of a giant as a spear.

>animu
>catgirl
>no less than fucking Chocola herself it seems
>boobplate conveniently not covering the areas that require the most protection
>zettai ryouiki
>that joke of a headgear
>oversized sword
>ARMOR HEELS
>cape
>seemingly putting on Saber

Found my most TRIGGERING image on the internets ever. Call the ambulance - my butthole is unable to process the knot of purest hatred that the mere act of looking at this image stirs within me, so I think I'm gonna anally chock on it in about 15 seconds.

>Dendra panoply and Mycenaean equipment

You sir are a gentleman and a scholar

If you're used to pragmatically-functional clothing and armor, suddenly switching to something which causes people to pay attention to you can be strange.

The male romantic interests in RF4 are so disappointing, though. I made a second save file with a male character pretty much exclusively so I could romance Forte, because apparently lesbianing is not an option.

oh i know that magazine.

Yeah, half the shit in that is bullcrap

Not
>"I'm mostly worried about my ability to fight; thankfully, I'm still protected."
>rests her head on your shoulder and holds your arm tight

To be fair to Xena, the way she fights would be greatly impaired by heavy/standard armor. Her approach is more a dex based fighter. But yea the mid section removal is just sex appeal.

Implying I'm not sitting at the peak of resistances,

Why not have your wizard friend turn your full plate into pseudo-power armor?

Isn't she basically a weird barbarian/paladin in concept? I vaguely remember something about how she gains her barbarian rage powers/warrior princess ability from a connection to aries and the concept of war itself, and otherwise is a high-Touch-AC, high dps martial.

That's for the BBEG or their second in command.

I don't remember any of that in the show.

Her relationship to Ares was basically him lusting after her because of how ruthless and skilled a warrior she was.

All of her powers came from training. We see a monk that can do her pressure point shit, Callesto can throw the ring blade like her, and the flipping/jumping is basically ninja shit I'm assuming would be standard for the universe. She gets god killing powers later on cause prophesies.

If I had to place her in a DnD type class. I'd say Barbrian/Monk with an abnormally high dex.