What footwear do digitigrade and ungulate races wear in your settings, Veeky Forums?
What footwear do digitigrade and ungulate races wear in your settings, Veeky Forums?
Nathaniel Anderson
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Christopher Taylor
They don't
Lucas Powell
Sandals where cleanliness is an issue and custom made boots for the aristocracy. Everyone else just goes barefoot.
John Howard
Shoes. Like everyone else. Because Cobblers possess the intellect to make shoes in different shapes.
Ryan Roberts
Ungulates wear primitive cybernetics on their hoof to prevent it from splitting, with possibly additional layers for the purposes of warmth.
Digitirades like keeping their toes clear so they can grip the ground with claws, but otherwise want to cover their sensitive pawpads and dewclaws.
Colton Russell
Centaurs, be they deer or horse, traditionally wear decorative anklewraps (think dressage boots, but loose) made from a variety of cloth or leather, usually with colorful stichings on them. If the situation or occupation demands it they'll obviously wear whatever is more useful.
Some also grow out their fetlocks and put little bows or cheerful ribbons in them, though that practice is considered tacky.
Horseshoes are also common, but are generally kept utiliarian, as they are mostly worn for a fairly long time. Versions exist that mimick plantigrade footwear, such as heeled forms, but those are only for the truly wealthy, who can afford to change their horseshoes often.
There are no digitigrade species outside were-creatures, who generally have other worries when they transform.
Nathaniel Allen
No non-human races in my setting, because I'm not a child.
Elijah Sullivan
>look how mature I am, posting about how my make-believe game is superior to other make-believe games on a Bhutanese woodlogging forum
Austin Gomez
don't reply to the obvious troll, user.
Nobody's dumb enough to have that level of need to play facts and opinions.
Jordan Wright
Same as humans, they don't.
Owen Perry
I'm impressed.
Jayden Powell
Dylan Ortiz
Oh yeah?
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Jason Rodriguez
>ungulate
Rubber slip-ons or metal shoes attached with adhesives that can be dissolved (safer than nails)
>digitigrade
None
Thomas Howard
>safer than nails
I dunno, it might be technically, but it's such a small thing to nail the shoes on into what is literally a senseless fingernail.
Easton Stewart
Hm...this is providing an issue for me. One of my characters is digitigrade and I figured they could just squeeze their feet into big boots.
Oliver Lopez
Why is it an issue? It's a foot, except you only stand on your toes and the heel is way in the back. You only really hurdle (assuming you're not too poor to pay premium for freaky custom shoes) is that you have your entire body weight pressing on a much smaller area, so normal leather soles will wear out fast.
Daniel Allen
Yeah, it's not REALLY dangerous, but with safe and strong adhesives that are dissolved easily by a second compound, it's a lot more convenient than getting shoes nailed on every time you need a new pair. And you don't have to worry about the ferrier (or your bud) fucking up and driving a nail somewhere you really don't want one (unlikely as that is, plenty are still squeamish).
There's also some fashionable shoes that don't really do much for protecting the hoof or helping with grip, but when you're only wearing it for a day or so it's not a real problem.
Kayden Morris
Sweet llamas from Bahamas, that's one nice animal anatomy book.
Answering your question, didn't think about it yet. Most likely something appropriately designed.
William Green
Also, the queen of Bhutan is a really qt. Would carry her favour into battle.
Hudson Wood
Finally someone who understands that loincloths can shift about.
Aaron Williams
What if they're humans?
Jacob Jackson
What if you have hands for feet?
Ethan Cruz
Then you wear gloves. This is not a hard concept, user.
Justin Russell
Jaxon Smith
does really hate wearing those things
shoes could probably be made to accommodate if these species didn't have weird toes with claws. Ungulate is harder but they would want some kind of horseshoe and being a sentient race they probably don't want it permanently attached to their toe like regular horseshoes.
Samuel Bennett
Then you wear handshoes. This is not a hard concept, user.
David Foster
None, because furshit races don't exist in my setting.
Aiden Robinson
Well they're trying not to cast attention to themselves since there's a group of monster slaying zealots after them, and they can't just chug a polymorph potion because their religion forbids using arcane magic items.
Dominic Powell
>does really hate wearing those things
I hate wearing shoes too, but I'm smart enough to understand shoes are good for your feet. I suppose human-smart canids would do the same.
Hudson Richardson
The german word for glove is literally handshoe
Hunter Green
>This is not a hard concept, user.
Is there an echo in here?
I wonder how a handshoe glove would differ from a regular glove. It's need a thicker palm to withstand all the wear, but it'd also need to be flexible enough to enable the hand to work as a hand.
Colton Campbell
Shoes, like everyone else. That's how you know if a race is sentient, they start to wear cloths and stop living in fucking holes. Anybody below this are animals.