rednosesho submitted:

Just a video poking fun at boobplates and such.

The potential disadvantages of the boobplate discussed from the point of view of the common sense.

Warning: this video is rather distracting at times 😉

~Ozzie

Video also emphasizes the importance of picking and combat technique that is practical for you as well as why you shouldn’t wear armor that sabotages your options.

– wincenworks

edit: The video isn’t available anymore 🙁

Knight’s Fable

There’s another MMO by the guys that did League of Angels — Knight’s Fable:  http://knight.gtarcade.com/ I have not seen a single reasonably-armored female character on their websites.  Behold!

Look at all those pointy bits.  Most of their advertizing involves the female characters, though there are guys.  Strangely, their armor and clothing offers full coverage.

Lastly, here is one of their actual advertizements on Facebook, un-cropped and unaltered.

Yep.  Makes me want to cheer.  How about you?

O_o I… have nothing to add. You probably said everything that needs to be said about this game already, lysander-gustav.

~Ozzie

Protip: If your default marketing idea is “A sexy woman in an improbable costume, but leave most of her fact out…”

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You may be super creepy.

– wincenworks

Hi there! So I’ve been researching female armors lately, and I’d like your help to clarify something if possible. Is the classical woebegone “boobplate” totally unfeasible/impractical in reality, or is it just unnecessary but still functional? What I’m having in mind here isn’t the ice-cream-scoops one with a cleavage but rather one solid steel piece over the chest, like a B-cup armor instead of the A-cup unisex one. Thank you!

There’s been a lot of discussion on how functional boobplate is (barring the most extreme cases of dangerous cleavage), the biggest consensus seems to be that creating breastplate that fits the form of boobs adds unnecessary work for the armorer and no noticeable benefits to the wearer (but lots of potential problems).

As for “unisex” armor being A-cup… it’s really not true. Most of standard combat-ready breastplates include a lot of place for chests of most sizes, especially because there’s lots of padding required unbeneath, which may act as additional binding to the breasts.

For more details, go into boobplate tag, especially posts tagged also as acticle.

~Ozzie