What kind of armor do you put into your fantasy setting?

What kind of armor do you put into your fantasy setting?

For me it is 1100-1250, mail still dominates while nobles wear tabards and great helms/conical helms are most common.

It's based on Antiquity, so it includes plate armor and mail.

mostly 800s-1000s with minor forward anachronisms primitive coats of plates, longswords, flails and crossbows, and much more of backward anachronisms [spoilers]mostly roman-time stuff, though rather celtic/greek than roman in sense of culture

Whatever the system provides, because I'm the only history autist in the group, and the others are visibly upset when I want to take away their standard shit for more flavourful things. And in the end, it's not worth the trouble to work through a set of equipment of wholly my own creation just so I can marginally enjoy it while the rest doesn't care.

>What kind of armor do you put into your fantasy setting?

Just whatever looks cool. I'm not picky.

It's all mechanically the same anyway.

I like late Roman scale. I think it's called Lorica Squamata

I run wilfully anachronistic pulp fantasy, so basically whatever looks cool and the players think would be fun and appropriate based on their characters background. Completely fantastical armours are good too, why not?

>wanting le wyyked armor and le campy setting in favor of something authentic and fresh

Yep.

15 and back

I love me some 1250

of couse I also love Barrier Peaks stuff so prepare for a strange ship to cash in the middle of nowhere

I can't ever understand how people are thinking it's cool.
It looks like gay edgy shit. It doesn't look real, and I don't mean "historically" acurrate, since it doesn't mean shit in fantasy. But it looks like something that has no right to exist at all.
Try imagining it in live-action movie without it looking fake and plastic. Impofuckinssible. Like this shit in hobbit movie. It's only "passable" because 2d art and current tech vidya 3D are much more forgiving medium than live action.
It isn't scary or badass it's pathetic cringy gao of kitch that is physically painful to watch.

I'd literally take a 1000 chainmail bikinis and boobplates over this kind of shit.

I don't actually like it much either, I just scrolled through my vast and unsorted image collection to look for the most obnoxiously ridiculous fantasy armour picture to use as a response.

Yeah this

Protip: settings or characters are not suddenly interesting because they have wikked armor and swords XD. Still I guess the same can be said for "completely and autistically historically accurate"

From the most to least stylish 1610 > 1525 > 1250 > 1400 > 1330 > 1100 > 1450

>Try imagining it in live-action movie without it looking fake and plastic.
Why would you imagine everything as a live action movie?

>2d art and current tech vidya 3D are much more forgiving medium than live action.
And to those, I would add "my imagination".

You just cobbled together a bunch of negative words like "cringy", "kitsch", "painful to watch", "gay", "edgy".
If it's beautiful I like it.
If it's ugly it's ugly.

And following the human silhouette with anatomically accurate armor, caring about weight and balance and cost and heat limits all that.

I carefully paint something to look nice and pleasing to the eye, and then some autist has to come up with a thick permanent marker and ruin it all scribbling laws and principles and ratios from the real world all over it.

My last campaign was in the early 14th century eastern european kinda armor, but I might advance it to late 14th for my next one

Lorica Squamata (Fish scale) or Lorica Plumata (Feather scale).

Don't mind me, just being the sexiest war outfit ever invented.

I'd prefer 12-13 centuries, but naval battles with that tech level are utter shite and I'm too lazy to rewrite D&D armor table. Even if we cast off the system, I'm still a bit vary about crewing ships of 17th century with 12th century warriors.

yee

Lamellar and brigandine are the most common, coming from empire-wide arsenals making mass-produced armor easily repaired.

Full harness of steel plate was invented 80 years ago, but it is expensive and even many nobles can't afford or won't think highly of it. Specially the elven elite which uses bow more than anything else.

1330-1430 accodring to OP's image, or 1400-1700 China, because arquebuses and rockets are available. The aesthetic is european, but the underlying cultural values and socioeconomical development aren't.

I think that armor will last longer than in real life Western Europe because there are too many creatures and magics which can close the distance for melee, and there is more armor available in general.

15th Century German Plate with a Sallet style helmet & before. Sexy as hell

>le wikked armor appeasing 12yo's sense of "badassery" and deformed comic-book anatomies
>""""""beautiful""""""
>'''''''''''pleasing to the eye""""""

Full plate armour implies that fire lances, arquebuses and longbows are around. Alternatively, it can imply that wizards can shot spells with the force of a bullet.

You're an autistic loser that unironically screeches about badwrongfun and nobody will ever love you. Before you make hot assumptions, I run a hyper realistic low fantasy game as historically accurately as feasibly possible. You just talk like a fag and your shits all retarded. I suggest learning how to have different tastes without acting like a manchild whenever you see someone that likes something you don't like if you want to have any hope of losing your virginity.

Fuck off sperg

>What kind of armor do you put into your fantasy setting?

1600's and a little beyond.
Magic & Muskets and the technologies that proceed their widespread use has invalidated a lot of heavier, slower, arms and armors.

Sufficiently enchanted & flamboyant armor, like the kind this user posted: is still used, but remains incredibly expensive.

My setting is planned for a total universe with periods, hopefully evolving and changed by the players. The first era starts with low magic early medieval but will advance forwards with games and player action.

I love running bronze age, so there's usually little armor to go around. But I do love this kind of armor when I get the chance to actually have someone armored.

The more colourful your armor is, the better its protection.

Fuckin lol'd

10/10 if troll

7/10 if copypasta

He's quite emotional, but right