Would bare feet be a huge liability for an adventurer? I ask because it's become pretty standard to illustrate classes like monks and druids that away as well as "monstrous" player races like orcs. It seems like it would be more dangerous for those people.
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It can usually be handwaved by magic/ki/skin as thick as hide anyway. Chances are, if there's something so dangerous that those reasons can't ignore, anything short of magic boots that deal with that specific danger is not gonna help.
Primates have gotten on just fine with bare feet for tens of millions of years so your party's animal-larping PETA enthusiast or anime punching man can probably get away with it.
That said, there is a reason why footware is as old if not an older technology than fire-making, and forgoing that is stupid even if it is the sort of stupid that you can likely get away with for a time.
>Primates have gotten on just fine with bare feet for tens of millions of years
Primates aren't walking on brick, cut stone, cement, marble surfaces or in temperatures that required clothing. The filth that comes with civilization is also worth a mention.
You know, native americans are famous for making moccasins. Other examples are people just weaving long grass to make a summer "shoe"
You're mistaking wrappings as solely as bandages. Wrappings were anything that you could wrap around your foot.
Maybe in some grimdark mudcore bullshit, but in heroic fantasy, it doesn't matter.
Someone who can stay standing after taking a blow from something three times their size doesn't have to worry about ouchies on their tootsie-toes.
>Would bare feet be a huge liability for an adventurer?
Yes. It brands them as a footgay and therefore a candidate for banning.
Valid point.
I never understood why these weird socks with the toes sticking out got so popular in anime and manga. Did anything like this ever exist?
In a genre based around imagining things that are impossible or improbable, aspects of it that are impossible or improbable don't need to have existed.
Foot wrappings. But usually that was for people in extreme poverty that couldnt afford anything else to protect their feet other than some rags. You could also argue that primitive tribes used a form of foot wrappings as dirt is not as harsh on the feet as the stone and brick of urban areas, so more complex and more protective footwear isnt necessary but people tend to protect their feet if they get the resources.
Foot wrappings are different, as that involved bandages. What they were referring is more of a weird sock.
They are called stirrups
They're pretty common in athletic wear (pants, leggings, shinguards, etc.), though you're usually meant to wear socks and shoes over them.
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It makes you more vulnerable to temperature extremes and parasites. Parasites are going to be the most common problem. You'll have to watch for slashing and piercing debris more, but even nice boots aren't a lot of help against properly made caltrops.
Being barefoot has some advantages, though not many. You'll be considerably quieter. Your agility on uncertain ground may improve.
In a hyper-realistic scenario, sure, but I'd add that part of being an adventurer comes with the assumption that you are fighting with lots of liabilities and in dangerous, against-the-odds situations anyway. For example, people might think that in a 'lower fantasy' setting characters should always be in realistic equipment, but then look at something like Conan: motherfricker has light armour when he can, but he's often fighting with bare feet or with little equipment simply because adventuring is a profession of unexpected turns and twists. Or take Aragorn, Boromir, and Legolas, who IIRC spend pretty much all of The Fellowship of the Ring engaging in the kind of battles adventurers should, and do so in little to no armour. In almost all those situations, you'd want some nice chainmail if you could have it, but you deal with what you have.
To be honest, I'd also assume that in any setting with 'monks' this shouldn't be an issue all, because that means in your setting humans can achieve magical feats like having highly durable skin, shrugging off fatal blows, or splitting rocks with a judo chop, simply by training hard.
I believe it was pretty common for sailors to go barefoot due to a pitching deck covered in seawater and possibly blood being a rather treacherous surface in battle.
I feel like we've had a lot more footage threads lately. Is it one coomer trying to shill his fetish or a bunch of copycat shitposter due to /tg/'s painful compulsion to drive any joke into the ground?
Liking feet is so popular that some argue it's not even a "true" fetish, how is it surprising that there might be more than one footgay here?
There's degrees of footgay, to be fair. Someone who just finds bare shapely feet erotic is different from a smellgay.
>Liking feet is so popular
By this line of reasoning, furries are normal people. Is that the path you want to go down?
I'm OK with furries so long as they keep building missiles.
Footgays are uppity homosexuals. They have a habit of posting their shit everywhere, even on blue boards, and if you tell them to frick off they say "it's the most common fetish in the world, you're weird for not liking it." You never see most other fetishists so brazenly posting their garbage unless it's a shitpost, but footgays and trapgays are much more aggressive about it.
Futagays are also obnoxious in the same way.
Never bothered me none.
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It honestly depends. In my early twenties, I almost never wore shoes. I'd go backpacking and hiking and only carry sandals, which would go on my feet only to go over snow. Otherwise I'd go barefoot. After two or three years, your feet get rock-fricking-hard. You have zero feeling in them. You can walk across crumbly shale, the kind where it all chips into little dagger shards, without any concern at all.
Ten years later and I never do that shit any more so my feet are as soft as a baby's ass and would simply get torn to shreds if I tried without working my way up to it.
Zulu corpses have calluses on their feet so thick and solid that they can be found alongside the bones in anthropology digs, centuries after the rest of the flesh is all gone.
But if you get to that level of foot invulnerability? The soles of your feet are not exactly sexy.
It would be an advantage, because you would have the blessing of Degeneris Fucchus, who grants his blessings only to beautiful women who wade into battle barefoot.
>Would bare feet be a huge liability for an adventurer
Absolutely not. If the character conditioned their feet for an unshodden life then they are probably better off than the party members with shoes.
Only soft footed fat men/dwarf enjoyers will disagree.
Assume all adventurers carry footwraps and torn up tunics and rags as "dungeoneering kit."
Couldnt you stop a barefoot rogue/thief with simple traps? Caltrops, glue, oil.
Those would stop even normal foot wear
>Caltrops,
The entire point of caltrops is that they go through a boot. Otherwise do you think they would have existed? They go through boots, into horse hooves. Wearing shoes isn't going to let you waltz into them you still have to avoid them.
Yes, but all of those things also frick up people in footwear. It was something of the point. Probably worse for a rogue/thief, since they'll probably be wearing something pretty soft & thin-soled to cut down on noise.
What's the actual question here, anon? Where would traveling barefoot cause problems? Does the system you're using (you ARE playing a game, right anon?) account for instances where a bare foot could be uninjured and infected with bacterial or parasites? Does the system have an armor system that accounts for foot protection? If not, then what does it matter if a character is depicted with shoes or not?
If you're asking out of a matter of "muh realism" or historical precedent, mankind has been traveling barefoot for literally thousands of years and millions if not over a billion people spend their day-to-day lives barefoot as we speak.
The only sound objection is if the player in question (again, you ARE playing a game with people, right anon?) is being weird and fetishy about their character's feet.
>Would bare feet be a huge liability for an adventurer?
No. And if it ever becomes one it's because you were being a weirdo fetish frick.
>Are bare feet a liability
Depends. If you need a real world example Massai communities in Africa go barefoot most the time and their foot soles toughen up to a point that they can walk across gravel, rock and thorny brush without incapacitating themselves. Takes years though and even then some still wear sandals made out of recycled rubber like tires.
Some also argue it's beneficial to go barefoot to reduce the chance of foot ailments like fungus, athletes foot, bunions, flat arches and hammer toes. Also bare feet have grip benefits on things like wet surfaces as your less likely to aquaplane and I'm sure some ninja gay can attest to bare foot being beneficial for moving quietly too.
Otherwise outside of these fringe benefits, footwear is largely most useful for protecting shins and ankles from minor scrapes and bruises, toes from minor impacts and bumps or for cushioning impact from walking/running. This is because without the right conditioning these can be real annoyances.
All the above means that in a world of magic and fantasy bare feet are probably fine. In a gritty realistic world as long as the foot is conditioned enough the majority of everyday walking and moving isn't going to be a big issue; though I doubt they'd be able to walk across spearheads or razorblade traps.
Also some people just find it more comfy and peda-gays have something to think about cumming on.
If Druids want to be barefoot to be connected to the Earth, how about Coastal Druids?
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A girl in her mid adolescence with long black hair, teal colored eyes, and fair complexion. A floral ornament adorns her head to help tie her hair. She wears a white kimono with her convent's seal, along with floral and avian designs woven on it, and the hem of the dress is shortened above the knees to allow freedom of movement when she does her acrobatics feats. The kimono is bound by an Obi sash which shares the same color as her eyes and a gold Obijime cord is used to further secure the sash.
She prefers to go unshod in her travels, completely unaccustomed to footwear due to her time with the Air Genasi nuns who saw them as a hindrance to their movements. A gold ribbon is tied around her left ankle as a girlish affectation. Her arcane tattoos on her arms and nape peek out of her kimono and the markings etched on her legs can be seen by all.