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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Crimson Longinus" data-source="post: 9311676" data-attributes="member: 7025508">Sure, but he is not likely to be shot by an arrow in such an occasion is he?In any case, I don't think it is particularly weird, silly or even unrealistic for a person to go to battle in such an attire. People did so for much of an human history. Granted, once armour became available, those who could afford it tended to use it, but D&D is anachronistic in that regardless, mixing armours from different time periods and having people use them side by side. And of course there were exceptions to this.The barbarian class harkens back to things like Germanic berserkers and some Celtic warriors who fought unarmoured and sometimes literally naked though armour obviously was invented. It is just a heightened and exaggerated fantasy version of that, and I think it is fine to depict it as such, and it is not inappropriate "cheescake" even if the individual question would happen to be a woman. Though in such instance I hope she too would be depicted being a hulking wall of muscle like Arnie, instead of having a physique of a fashion model.I really want diverse and respectful depictions of all sort of people, but what I don't want is reflexive American-style prudery. When supposed progressives and puritans are making the same arguments, something has gone wrong. (And to be clear, I didn't mean you were doing that, it is just general observation over the years about many discussions regarding topics like this.)</blockquote>

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