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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hong" data-source="post: 1208405" data-attributes="member: 537">I'll grant you unarmed (unless you're playing a monster or something with innate natural attacks), but I think unarmoured fits in quite well with the D&D system. That's partly because D&D doesn't have inherent level-based AC progression, unlike BAB or saves, so there's less stuff to break, but also because you already have plenty of unarmoured people wandering around. They're called wizards.Even on the warrior-type side, there's a continuum of what sort of armour people wear, and the rules allow for different types of armour to be viable (the more armour you wear, the lower the Dex bonus to AC becomes). There are also lots of classes that make a feature out of unarmoured combat, eg the duelist.In terms of source material and inspiration, I'd say that there's lots of fantasy examples of unarmoured or lightly armoured fighters wielding big swords or whatever. There's Arnie's baby oil-coated Conan, all the Jedi knights in Star Wars, every swordsman in wuxia or chambara movies, and so on. At a stretch, Aragorn fighting off those orcs in FotR didn't seem to be wearing anything heavier than a leather jerkin. So people in light or no armour fit in quite well with the D&D paradigm, I'd say.There also is a marvellous class that I was going to pimp, but this post is too small to contain it.</blockquote>