In the last episode of Xena: Warrior Princess One of the characters is given a large tattoo on her back that protects her from an evil spirit. I've used this idea many times when playing lightly-armored, tattooed characters. I roleplay that the tattoo has magical properties similar to, say, a shield spell. In fact, I have gone so far as to add a shield spell to the race (I almost always play custom races) that simulates the protective properties of the tattoo.

In the last episode of Xena: Warrior Princess One of the characters is given a large tattoo on her back that protects her from an evil spirit. I've used this idea many times when playing lightly-armored, tattooed characters. I roleplay that the tattoo has magical properties similar to, say, a shield spell. In fact, I have gone so far as to add a shield spell to the race (I almost always play custom races) that simulates the protective properties of the tattoo.

Nope she's not adventuring in that, and I don't take it the wrong way at all.

Neither she nor Vilja wear anything much and not because I am a dirty tech perv either but because - (but not limited to)...

1. We have been through loads of armour and not one has really been ..."right", if you will.
2. Both characters now have enough body decoration that they aren't really naked per-se, anymore.
3. The more the characters evolve the more naturalistic they have become - as I said before: think Celts, but equally many cultures hunt and "venture forth" extremely successfully wearing VERY little indeed.
4. It's not my/our world, the social mores that govern me - (God Forbid) - walking out of my front door wearing nothing but piercings and tattoos do not, in Niamh's Cyrodiil, govern her.
5. Wearing very little is not the same as having perfectly manicured fingernails. As I've mentioned; if I was good enough I would make their hair look greasy and unwashed and cover their bodies in dirt and blood and scum.

It was awful.