Do you ever let you PCs pick insanely dumb armor options? I’m talking like allowing them to wear no shoes in a dungeon or wear no armor to expose their stomach? Do you devise ways to screw over their choices?
>>96503665Sometimes the best thing the chairactors can do is weight and see. If you can feel the round shaking you'll see the enemy before thay can ate you.
>>96503665If someone makes a Wood elf with no shoes I routinely place in traps like glue or caltrops to fuck them over
>>96503665I think temperature is the biggest factor that players miss. You can't be running in a multilayered plate armor with padding in the desert, Mr Cleric.
>>96503665Unless I'm running a system that has hit allocation where the details of armor are that specific, I don't care. If the game isn't going to punish them for not wearing a helmet, I'm certainly not going to houserule in an entire subsystem just to screw them over.
>>96503665Yes, of course. I want sexy armor for both men and women because I am a horny bislut.
stick to your historicals if you don't like fantasy
>>96504572Freak shitter
Any character in historically-correct armor is considered a redshirt and dies the second a non-fodder enemy so much as looks at them.
>>96504941I kinda feel bad for people who lock themselves into playing NPCs.You don't have to be the asshole who's trying to be the Main Character, but at least play a Player Character and not a hireling.
>>96503665No usually I take their armor away. Sorry bub but you have to leave your LAJ at the door. Should've bought Kevlar
>>96503665They can flavor their armor however they want, it makes no difference to me. Why would I want to screw over my friends?
>>96503665why would you even GO barefoot in 40k?
>>96503665I've been in this hobby for over twenty years and I've never once seen a player describe how their character is barefoot or their armor leaves their belly exposed, I know you don't actually play any games but you have a weird idea of what they're like.
>>96504858worthless buzzworder
>>96503665The last DM rolled top starting armor for my PC. So he threatened to kill my character if I didn’t give it to his DMPC.
>>96508175Why didn't you threaten to kill him in real life?
>>96503665Depends on the system. If there aren't locational armor rules, then don't bother. Insanely dumb systems encourage insanely dumb choices. At worst, I might describe a particularly nasty hit as striking an unarmored location.If there are rules for locational armor, then just play the game as intended. The rules will sort them out. PCs who eschew armor in systems where it matters often have compensating advantages anyways, like Natural Armor.
