>>6289761>>6289773>>6289799>the sword and sorcery NUDE versus modestly dressed heroineI watched and endured the most unbearably agonising cinematic atrocity ever conceived by the human mind, just to bring you this screen capture. Here is Red Sonja (2025) in bikini armour, nooooo. How could anyone even get something this simple so wrong? (do not watch this film it is really really bad)
How to justify the sword and sorcery NUDE build? I remember a while back a lot of OSR settings had magic as a pact or bargain, ie you had to sacrifice some aspect of your character for the unnatural powers to represent the rarity of sorcery lifepaths etc so it could be something dramatic like sight or voice or years of life or maiming / disfigurement a crippled limb with -ve skill modifiers etc so maybe the magic bargain requires you to forfeit the dignity of clothes, but you could stipulate say an occult pact (maybe it is with some supernatural pleasure demon who demands obeisance through SUPPLE EXPOSED FLESH) alternatively, a reliable swords and sorcery genre fallback is the SPELLS as TATTOOs IMPRISONED UPON BARE SKIN and maybe to invoke the ancient incantations and rites you must unclothe yourself chanting and raving sky-clad beneath the rains and thunderstorm etc Maybe the conclave of warlocks demands the sumptuary law of runes and hieroglyphs inscribed upon naked skin (think that Conan mummification scene where the Japanese wizard man and Valeria resurrect him after the excruciation of the Tree of Woe by painting sigils over his corpse face etc)
