(Sorry for reviving old topic but...)
As a female player, I love some sexy armors in a game, especially barbarian armors that show some skins. I hope Goblinworks give us some freedom of choice for the armors visuals.
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A subject dear to my heart, armor styles in the game was my first post and my first threadnaught. It does seem pretty settled at this stage they went with the many-layers art style for everybody so sexy armors are going to have to be a crowdforging request to get on the art team's to-do list. Personally, I prefer we all get faces first.
* - and different heights and body types, a crazy variety of hair lengths styles and colors, jewelry and piercings (including in the face), and some good non-cheese tattoos (including on the face).
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well if its an Armored Kilt with a leapord pattern, its like a loincloth with at least some armor
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I guess well balanced Sexy Armors (Xena and Conan naked belly p.e.) with full cover will do the trick. The ones that want to be sexy can be it, while the ones want to be Full Plated could be too.
But for that works need a way to chose the craft style of each armor.
https://pathfinderonlinecrowdforging.ideascale.com/a/dtd/Separate-appearanc e-and-characteristics-in-crafting/38471-30320
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When monks finally join the world, they should be able to run around in that little wrap around diaper thing they usually wear while training under a waterfall.
Check out Ezra Scarlet from Fairy Tail. She has the magic of "armor equip". She can summon various armors that give her different power sets. I think she has over a hundred armors and not all of them show her belly button but all seem very sexy, even the "plain" functional ones.
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I saw this old necro thread and didn't recognize anybody posting except Vic Wertz and I thought things:
1) Hey! Here's a bunch of names I haven't seen! Maybe they need a settlement! and,
2) Vic was posting in this same thread for the past three years! Daaaang! He needs to find a job!
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...crowdforging request to get on the art team's to-do list. Personally, I prefer we all get faces first.).
This guy looks absolutely terrified (this guy here...the one on the left), and I would not be surprised if he never leaves his settlement!
... especially barbarian armors that show some skins.
There is a picture of a female barbarian or ranger wearing animal skin armor, and it is completely appropriate and sexy looking for a female barbarian. This fits the PFO art style and no one should have any issues with this art being on a character in game. She's a sexy beast! (Now if only I can find her again.)
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This guy looks absolutely terrified (this guy here...the one on the left), and I would not be surprised if he never leaves his settlement!
I think he looks more like the angry woman's recently-dead minion.
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This guy looks absolutely terrified (this guy here...the one on the left), and I would not be surprised if he never leaves his settlement!I think he looks more like the angry woman's recently-dead minion.
Or hypnotized! Or that wide-eyed look one gets when one realizes one is about to hurl and can't figure out which way to run!
With regards to those of us who want to get the benefits of armor without having to look armored: That's what the glamor enchantment is for. If you really want to run around in a loincloth and still get benefits from it, pay up. :)
Seriously. I'm playing a vain kobold bard in a PbP right now who used her 1/day Loremaster ability to work out what style of glamored armor to buy when infiltrating a drow city.
Glamored armor is a great option that both serves as a big advantage in deceiving your opponents and opportunity to take a beating and look fabulous doing it. I really hope it's not made a "free" option.
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A barbarian doesn't need special magic on their loincloth. Of course it doesn't act like armor, it's a loincloth. More importantly they are a barbarian and they don't need armor or clothes or baths! So stay away water wench! Take thy poisonous soaps elsewhere! I am clean, I bathe in my enemies blood daily! Naked as the moon! Mwa ha ha, mwa ha ha ha ha !
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With regards to those of us who want to get the benefits of armor without having to look armored: That's what the glamor enchantment is for. If you really want to run around in a loincloth and still get benefits from it, pay up. :)
I am obviously not talking for everyone, but all I want, is to be able to choose the design of my full plate, among a variety of full plate designs. I don't like when you can appear in cloth, even though you are wearing a full plate.
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A barbarian doesn't need special magic on their loincloth. Of course it doesn't act like armor, it's a loincloth. More importantly they are a barbarian and they don't need armor or clothes or baths! So stay away water wench! Take thy poisonous soaps elsewhere! I am clean, I bathe in my enemies blood daily! Naked as the moon! Mwa ha ha, mwa ha ha ha ha !
MWA HA HA HA HA!
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I'm totally in favor of allowing sexy armor and boob cups for those who want them. Maybe even include ceremonial or dress armor of the kind that was usually NEVER worn for anything other than looking good in parades.
On the other hand, the effectiveness of dress armor should be appropriately penalized compared to practical fighting armor. When boob armor works as well as practical armor, you might as well forget about immersion.
Medieval realism is immersion breaking, in my opinion, in a fantasy setting.
Not talking for you, but geez, I hate all these armor realism nonsense.
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I know its a fantasy game, but 'female armor', especially the boobplates are impractical as hell. The point of a breastplate is to help deflect a point oriented attack, that's why its a simple verticle division in the middle of the plate, to guide the enemy's blade away. Boobplates let it catch and go into the middle more easily than if the armor was even totally flat.
Yeah, I'm gonna have to side with the realism crowd. If you want to wear the more silly-looking armors, be a light or medium armor character. Rogues and casters are perfect for your playstyle.
Or cough up the dough for a glamor. :)
Medieval realism is immersion breaking, in my opinion, in a fantasy setting.
If you feel that realism doesn't have any place because the setting is magic, here's a word of advice: Just saying, "There's magic, so this unrealistic thing that isn't magic is fine" doesn't add up.
Make the unrealistic thing magical, and then the argument works. That is what makes glamor absolutely perfect.
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I know its a fantasy game, but 'female armor', especially the boobplates are impractical as hell. The point of a breastplate is to help deflect a point oriented attack, that's why its a simple verticle division in the middle of the plate, to guide the enemy's blade away. Boobplates let it catch and go into the middle more easily than if the armor was even totally flat.
No, the point of a breastplate is to augment your AC, which is a stupid unrealistic system. Which will surely be replaced by an even more stupid system, because GW doesn't have any reason whatsoever to create a realistic simulation of medieval fight.
By the way, the realistic thing would be to give female characters a big strenght malus, but, well, that would suck.
Being, yes, IRL.
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If you feel that realism doesn't have any place because the setting is magic, here's a word of advice: Just saying, "There's magic, so this unrealistic thing that isn't magic is fine" doesn't add up.
Make the unrealistic thing magical, and then the argument works. That is what makes glamor absolutely perfect.
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No, I don't think that realism doesn't have any place, I just say that people went from the bikini plate/no belly armor extreme, to the stupid medievalism. ;)
And that if you look at all the official designs, realism isn't that much of a theme.
And I don't see your point about medium armor, they are usually way more realist, in most fantasy arts.
I dunno, aside from some boob plate, armor is usually pretty realistic in Pathfinder. And when it's not, it's because it's light armor, or possibly hide.
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I dunno, aside from some boob plate, armor is usually pretty realistic in Pathfinder. And when it's not, it's because it's light armor, or possibly hide.
Just now, on the Paizo website, I didn't find any picture of a non boobysised female. :p
You can probably find some, but it is far from the rule.
Actually, just between the APG and Core, there are two very modestly dressed females: The druid and the cleric. The paladin is also pretty non-sexualized, but she loses points for wearing full plate with, er, a couple unrealistic features.
Considering the cleric and druid are wearing light/medium armor, this is actually better than I expected.
I am gonna have to concede the point, though—in my brief search, I couldn't find a single lady in heavy armor whose heavy armor didn't have boobs.
