OT holly wood armour rant

jasper

Rotten DM
To Ming the Merciless, Galactic overlord, and over all nice guy.

From Jasper, Haster, Irs, and Cheatem Accounting and Adoption firm.

Subject: Cost savings by reducing armour protection defense for employees.

Dear Sir or Madam:

After much research, and watching many movies, this firm respectfully suggests that you can save money by having all your employees not be issued armour. The cost savings alone from one year will result in a dramatic increase to your world conquest budget.

Reasons and examples follow.

Armour only works for heroes. No matter how skimpy or flashy. The chain mail bikini is the best example of this.

Good looks are better than plate armour. This has been called the Richard Gere effect. During the shooting of the movie of First Knight the director told the prop master to lose the helmet so he and the audience could see Richard’s face. Notice how often the villains do not take the head shot.

Armour attracts swords and hero’s swords are ghost touch weapons. Notice in Conan the Barbarian how the Irishman kills three attackers with slices to the belly. Which result in a bloody sword, an early cash out on the minions retirement fund, but the armour is not harm.

Plate armour is heavy. Just watch any more where the hero is winched up on his horse.

A tight hot bod comes with own magical drycleaning and hair dresser services. Watch any movie the actress can dive into the middens and come up fresh as daisy plus her silk blouse is not stained.

My other associates will post their comments below.

Please accept this free report and consider us for your future accounting needs.


jasper your loyal servant from the planet dirt.
 

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It is Hollywood (or Hollyweird for some). Its all supposed to be make-believe. Kind of like D&D, its not real. Its just fun. :D
 

GURPS actually has a tongue-in-cheek cinematic rule called 'Bulletproof Nudity'; the less clothes you wear, the harder you are to hit in combat :)
 

In teh LOTR RPG by Decipher, there is the Edge "Armour of Heroes." Basically, if you wear little or no armor, you get 2 points of armor for being "heroic."
 

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