Quick question: Will modders be able to add new weapons/armor/items to the game? Because that would fix this problem, really.

I found always utterly disgusting and annoying that in games like Neverwinter Nights my male wizard was Conan in robes. Altough by itself I don't dislike the Conan stereotype, I prefer the agile and cunning warrior stereotype. My D&D fighter characters are always odd, favouring first dexterity and then intelligence (from D&D 3.0+... 2nd Edition sucked in skill terms so no point to have much intelligence there for a fighter), favouring dual blade style, acrobatics... Certainly not a Conan that has buffed muscles even in the eyelashes. Wonder why I usually prefer to make female characters...

The realism I expect is that of "If you spend lots of hours each day training physically, I expect you to be beefy. If you, on the other hand, spend lots of time in a library studying, I expect you NOT to be beefy.". Action -> Reaction. Totally ignoring things like "beauty" because it doesn't matter (but I would expect some degree of "marks" in those exposed to dangers to health... like arrows, daggers, fireballs...).

That entertaiment sells us some stereotypes... by itself is not bad as long as you don't get carried away. It would be like those fashion companies using Photoshop on their models...

My fantasy bias is that magic is real (in whichever universe it happens), which means that it has laws of its own that allow it to work. And there is no real difference with our "science" but in that it may be accessible by only a minority of people (unless it's based on kamis and/or demon pacts...) due to whatever laws the magic system works with. Because if you were in a world with magic, you would consider fantasy a world without it as the presence of magic (whichever its origin and your opinion about it) would be something natural (even if scary or dangerous) for you.

So I expect humans (unless the universe creator determines explicitly otherwise) to be humans and work biologically as such. So a "Cow" female warrior is going to spend lots of money in buying/mantaining the magically enhanced breasts and potions to easy the pain in the back (unless the magical breats already come enchanted for this). And lets not talk about the beauty saloons that both males and female heroes are to visit constantly to keep themselves pretty despite huge battles, skirmishes, dungeon crawling... I remember reading the Moonshaes trilogy and reading about the female protagonist breaking her teeth. It was like: what?? Seriously?? (no, she didn't get them fixed)

I know that my perspective on fantasy isn't fantasish for most of you but sue me for considering anything that it's not the reality I live in is a fantasy. And that unless it's a child fantasy world (where anything is possible because it's fantasy/magic... much like Harry Potter, as interesting as it may be), everything has a reason to be that could be explained "scientifically" (within limits, no need to explain aether quatum mechanics or something).

I prefer "Engage!".

Wait a minute, that's so unrealistic.  They didn't have wash machines back then. 

As a comparison someone should post some thong armour pics for comparison... (edit: comparison is a word that needs to be repeated for compariosn)

 

It really comes down to a question of what fits the world and the character if its a confident women in a world where sexuality isn't bad (unlike ours) then she would probably not wear much to display that confidence like she wears jewelry to show her wealth and a tabard to show her allegiance. But its up to her.

"Realistically"? Take a trip to the museum kid, you will find that armor did indeed have fitting for a woman's breasts. Not as outlined as in games, but it's there.

Armored for... easy access?

The game's title says it perfectly. I didn't make up the term

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That's a good point. They would want armors to resemble the rest of their clothes. No more no less. So famless who like to war "functional" clothes would just wear male armors, and females who like more dessed up armors would wear the sexier ones. Seems a very reasonable argument.

Yes human females should not be in melee. Its proven that only Elven females were ever in combat. Often female elves were specifically drafted from their tree houses to fight the dragons that plagued the lands in the south of france and the plains of Hungary.

However I don't think this was modeled in the game so I doubt realism should be a concern for the armour since they couldn't even get basic historical stuff like dwarves right.

I've seen women fight.  It's way scary.  I don't think guys could match the shear meanness girls can muster when their blood is up.  Men fight to win, women fight to kill and rend the eternal soul of their victims into nothingness.  I for one will always run away as fast as I can from a angry woman with a axe,  or anything that they might be able to come up with some way of committing bodily harm to me with. 

Women can be vindictive.  They'll recall some wrong you committed in the past and attack when you're sleeping.  Just ask John Bobbitt or the people who were out in the field searching for his severed body part.

If only we could get something like this...

Sexy Armor of Troy
http://www.titanquest.net/tq-forum/threads/4883-REL-Sexy-Armor-of-Troy!

Is that the smell some of those pioneers talk about? You know the "Whatever that smell is...it isn't me." quotes?