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I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. There's nothing about the setting that would make people discard armor, except for the prevalence of firearms.ehiker133 wrote:Might it be more accurate to say the setting makes armour superfluous?
I was basing it off of your OP...sully wrote:I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. There's nothing about the setting that would make people discard armor, except for the prevalence of firearms.ehiker133 wrote:Might it be more accurate to say the setting makes armour superfluous?
On the contrary, there are lots of examples of people wearing armor in pre-gunpowder eras despite the setting. Crusader knights, for example, always wore padded armor and a chainmail shirt over it, despite the draining heat of the Middle East, because they knew that would make them practically invulnerable to Saracen weapons.
I read that as you were going for a specific historical setting. I wasn't saying anything about knights of the crusades; I wasn't even saying anything about soldiers wearing armour during the development of firearms - in fact, I believe there is about a 300 year overlap of the two.sully wrote:I'm in the extremely early stages of contemplating a game that takes the DD combat system and adapts it to North America around 1800. A Lewis & Clark-style game of exploration...