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Yes, it can and most likely will damage the credibility if you are aiming for a serious setting. "Boobplate armor" as you put it would be highly dangerous and useless. Using it will automatically...
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System
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2019-12-12T23:01:19Z (about 5 years ago)
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#3: Attribution notice added
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2019-12-08T07:39:47Z (about 5 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision
Yes, it can and most likely will damage the credibility if you are aiming for a serious setting. "Boobplate armor" as you put it would be highly dangerous and useless. Using it will automatically show every reader that has ever done a tiny bit of research into this topic or had some experience with armor that you are aiming for the generic anime/fantasy game genre. Especially if women are important they should be defended as best as possible. That being said: this is mostly important in visual media. I can't remember reading any description of such armor and I've certainly read a lot of fantasy books. Maybe it just slipped past me, but I would find such a description to be very weird. If you are going for a high-power-magic setting you could just describe your female warrior wizards in normal clothes or something like that to show how mighty they are and that they don't even need armor like those poor men without access to magic. I wouldn't try to sexualize their armor. Ever. (Of course it's your decision as the author, but I think you are massively damaging the realism and it's not even cool in writing.)
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2018-01-10T18:19:02Z (almost 7 years ago)
Original score: 6