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<blockquote data-quote="Steampunkette" data-source="post: 8592013" data-attributes="member: 6796468">Or, or... hear me out here...Fluff it.Yeah, your character has plate armor on their character sheet and in your chosen artwork is wearing an open white blouse with puffy sleeves and a little red vest because he's a pirate. Mechanically you gain the benefits and penalties of Plate Armor. For RP purposes it's Blouse o'Clock.You don't have to create a separate mechanic, here, if you're just willing to acknowledge that not every aspect of the system as presented needs to be presented in the game world. You don't have your fighter tell your cleric he's down 13 hit points and only needs a Cure Light Wounds in character. No. Instead he says &quot;I'm alright. The goblin grazed me with the spear and I was bruised by that nasty fall, but you shouldn't expend your greater powers on me!&quot;Why is armor any different?And it isn't -new-, either.<img src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/c35a893a8d46646f14f7a057f2070c56/tumblr_py7mnkWJEF1xkd9eko1_400.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />You think Goldmoon was getting the armor bonus of leather from this loose suede blouse with a cut so low Elvira was checking her out? Heck no! For leather armor to be strong enough to stop any harm more severe than bacon grease spit it's got to be boiled and hardened into shaped plates. That outfit wouldn't protect her from anything while adventuring. Not to mention the -chafing-.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Steampunkette, post: 8592013, member: 6796468"] Or, or... hear me out here... Fluff it. Yeah, your character has plate armor on their character sheet and in your chosen artwork is wearing an open white blouse with puffy sleeves and a little red vest because he's a pirate. Mechanically you gain the benefits and penalties of Plate Armor. For RP purposes it's Blouse o'Clock. You don't have to create a separate mechanic, here, if you're just willing to acknowledge that not every aspect of the system as presented needs to be presented in the game world. You don't have your fighter tell your cleric he's down 13 hit points and only needs a Cure Light Wounds in character. No. Instead he says "I'm alright. The goblin grazed me with the spear and I was bruised by that nasty fall, but you shouldn't expend your greater powers on me!" Why is armor any different? And it isn't -new-, either. [IMG]https://64.media.tumblr.com/c35a893a8d46646f14f7a057f2070c56/tumblr_py7mnkWJEF1xkd9eko1_400.jpg[/IMG] You think Goldmoon was getting the armor bonus of leather from this loose suede blouse with a cut so low Elvira was checking her out? Heck no! For leather armor to be strong enough to stop any harm more severe than bacon grease spit it's got to be boiled and hardened into shaped plates. That outfit wouldn't protect her from anything while adventuring. Not to mention the -chafing-. [/QUOTE]

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