Calculate the AC on a spiky suit of armour. There’s a challenge. This vintage armour is a real thing, surfaced recently by Retronaut thanks to Malcolm Kick. This is Siberian bear-baiting, or perhaps bear hunting, armour. The former is more likely because running around in this leather suit would be awkward at most. The armour […]
Steampunk Predator helmet
You can wear this. This Predator helmet has been made from fiberglass and weighs less than 2kg. What gives it the metallatic look? Waxes, carefully airbrushed paint and metal rubs. Fancy it? You can buy the helemt from Skinkwork Props in the UK. A raw helemt costs £95 and a finished, painted, one is £165.
Behold! Fus-ro-dog!
The terror of the north! The dragon chaser! More hit dice than a dread gazebo! The fus-ro-dog! If you want to see what some real life, historical, dog armour looks like then Geek Native can help with that too.
Armour your dog
In a world were we can turn horses into dragons it is important that we can also armour our trusty hounds. Or, from a roleplaying mechanics point of view; does your system cope with non-humanoid armour? Game systems with abstract armour rules tend to cope better than those which require hit locations and tables. Sure […]
Female armour in RPGs
This comic strip from Dorkly tackles the thorny issue (or should that be thongy issue) of armour design for female characters in RPGs. They call it “Lady Armor” which isn’t a title I could quite… bare. The question is; do you think this comic strip also solves the contentious issue?
Shogun armour Boba Fett style
Prop builder Allen Amis makes a living building custom sci-fi weapons and armour. He was inspired by Clinton Felker’s artwork, an unique blend of sci-fi with historic, that he created an actual suit of armour. The armour Amis has created is a fantastic hybrid of shogun with the infamous bounty hunter Boba Fett. What do […]
The warrior woman photography of Andrey Yakovlev and Lili Aleeva
The Russian pair have a fantastic eye for photographic fantasy. The Photodom site has some more examples of their work – be a little cautious as some of the shots are a little sexy in the name of art – and they’re also active on Behance.
Does your RPG suffer from female armour syndrome?
I nearly opened this blog post with “I wonder what the figures are…” that would have been a bad start. Let’s return to figure issues later. I wonder what the stats are; the percentage of male gamers who play female characters versus the percentage of female gamers who play male characters. Of the male gamers […]
