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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nergal Pendragon" data-source="post: 6338515" data-attributes="member: 6777649">Funnily enough, that's actually how the samurai wore it. There's a specific reason for it: They didn't have the metal supplies necessary to produce metal armor in the same way that Europe did. The armor was primarily made of leather. IIRC, the specific style used in the picture was sometimes made from wood. So, a certain bulkiness is necessary for protection reasons.You're welcome!You have a very good point! And, I think it is important to remember that PCs are exceptional people and need to be compared to exceptional people, not to the commoners of history <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />  Historically, the armor that picture used as a basis wasn't ceremonial; it was just bulky. It helps to remember that the reason Japan got so good at folding steel for katanas is they had a long-term iron shortage. While they could and did use iron in armor, most of the time the armor was primarily comprised of leather and silk. It wasn't unusual for them to even use wood in the place of iron. As you can imagine, they tended to make armor with the idea it might not have any metal in it. Once they got access to iron to import, they tended to not hesitate to take the opportunity to import, since history had given them a very long lesson in just how important it is (steady iron imports caused them to change armor construction).</blockquote>

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