is there any good motivation for a D&D character to go barefoot?

No, shoes were invented for a reason.

Ignorance of what caltrops are.

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>>51513209
They're part of some race that has naturally developed though soles? It would especially make sense for elves. They're often depicted as being all "in tune with nature" and whatnot, but it doesn't make sense for them to have the cute, soft, humanlike feet they usually have. They'd be though, leathery and perhaps even have long, monkey-like toes to better grip branches with.

>>51513209
If they have some kind of enchanted soles and prefer to be barefoot then sure.

Sailors on deck too.

>>51513209
if they come to the conclusion that the extra dexterity and grip outweighs the possibility of stepping on something

>>51513261
Most shoes wouldn't really help you much against them either, since putting your full weight onto an iron point will still jam it through the sole.

Evidence of this can be seen in rusty nails and their tendency to go through even fairly thick rubber soles.

>>51513209
>The Druid that wears no boots becomes one with his surrounding environment and heightens his senses with primal instincts

>>51513209
Yes.

>>51513209
They aren't tenderfoot pussies.

>>51513209
Shoes are expensive

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>>51513209
Yes, playing as a halfling

>>51513373
>Abandoned by her party for her sub-optimal build, the halfling barbarian is forced to resort to prostitution

The main reasons I can think of are:
>Something involved barbed hooks on the bottoms of their feet and hands, used as an aid when climbing for additional grip
>Being naturally armored to the point that, at their current level of technological progress, it's unnecessary / does not offer additional protection (though this one still runs into the issue that feet get cold and stepping on fantasy legos sucks so you'll probably put at least foot gloves or the sort on 'em anyways)
>They're some sort of shapeshifter that tends to destroy (or at least not transform) what they're wearing, but at this point you have bigger concerns like "Well what about armor?" and "Do you have a servant following you everywhere carrying emergency sets of clothes for when you hulk out?"
>You're a goddamn giant spider / scorpion / something that would look absolutely silly wearing footwear. I mean, can you imagine a Drider in platform shoes or combat boots?

>>51513209
The dm has a lowkey foot fetish and you want to upgrade your weapon?

>>51513209
No shoes allowed in the Magical Realm.

>>51513209
He wants an infinite Glamour-free activation of Nevertread.

I did that

>>51513321
But it still keeps a shoe-thickness' amount of caltop out of the foot, no?

>>51513209
Because it looks good.

>>51513373
>No thick hairy feet

not a real halfling

>>51513594
They are a centaur or some other race that can't wear shoes.

>>51513862
horseshoes

>>51513404
I chuckled.

>>51513862
Didn't mean to reply sorry

>>51513872
Centaur hooves are stronger and more durable than horse hooves so they have no need for horse shoes

Monk or some similar archetype. Once you can step into a pack of rabid orcs without any armor and punch your finger through their brows you don't care about gravel.

>>51513209
This thread is obvious fetish bait. Please never post any variation of it again.
http://archive.4plebs.org/tg/search/text/barefoot/type/op/

>>51513209
I've never forced Druids to wear shoes/boots in any terrain. Call it a perk of the class but they can opt to go barefoot and get a closer link with nature for fluff reasons and no real mechanical benefit or detriment. Yes, that means that if they accidentally step on a sharp rock or thorn branch that wasn't put there for that express purpose they take no damage. No cold damage in snow, even. Why not? It's just fun.

>>51513209

Sneaking.

>>51513841
Halflings =/= Hobbits

>>51514087
Why would halflings go barefoot then? Hobbits are the ones with the thick soles, Halflings are just small humans.

>>51513601

Depends, you'll feel the pain before you've put your weight on it, and be able to react in time.

>>51513930
If it's really fetish bait, why did it act as moron bait in bringing you here?

>>51513209
Tremorsense.

>>51514097
I'm not the one who said they would.

>>51513209
>cheapest shoes that do anything worthwhile is 2500 gp, these magical properties are worthless to your class
>mundane shoes do nothing and arent even worth the two seconds it would take to mark on your character sheet

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>>51514087
Not before 3rd edition.

You're getting your only pair of boots iron shod because the fighter/druid keeps slamming things on your feet because they're petty. This holds everyone up from going into a tower because you're barefoot, but everyone agrees it's a prudent measure to take and waits after you explain where your boots went and why you're barefoot.

>>51513276
Sauce?

They either are so primitive they don't have shoes, or live such comforted and pampered lives they forego them.

>>51513276
I kind of like the idea of elves having a vague Owl theme. Great eyesight. Feathers in place of hair, known for being wise, and talons in place of feet to better grasp branches and handle rough terrain.

>>51513209
Shoes are better than barefeet, but (compared to hardened feet) not overwhelmingly so, unless you're in an unusual environment. So you can probably justify it on a character that has some pre-adventuring reason to be barefoot in wherever they grew up.

Like, I dunno, they lived in a swamp or something, where the shoes available to them would be worse than barefoot, and now they're refusing to adopt shoes because they don't see the need for them and/or, y'know, they think they're uncomfortable, or they think they represent giving up on their own culture, or whatever - you can find rationalizations for something like that easily.

>>51514311
Not that anon. I'm gonna say Queen's Blade on a hunch, but I don't actually have any idea.

>>51513209
Religious or supernatural reasons, possibly connected to druids and their ilk.

>>51513209
They are playing a tribal or African setting where all the people have natural feet thickness rivalling that of modern shoes.

Or you could just not annoy people by trying to justifying your characters choice of wardrobe using anything other that "because I want to".
Also stop playing with autists. Never healthy for anyone.

>>51513373
Hey it's Alfie's ho cousin

>>51514171
I don't know about your games but if you walk around barefoot in mine and you're not a literal savage who's been doing it since childhood then you will fuck yourself up the moment you try to travel any significant distance on foot.

>>51514782
>Shoes are better than barefeet

This is definitely why Africans athletes always lose marathons.

>>51513209
People tend to not realize how shitty shoes could be without rubber for soles. A d&d character is likely fighting quite often, and so needs decent grip, which bare feet excel at.

Yes, hobnail shoes inconvenienced norm for soldiers in the field, but the metal on the bottom of those doesn't help very much with smooth stone surfaces, like those often featured in dungeons.

Given that adventurers in d&d are often exceptional, it wouldn't be a stretch to have someone used to bare feet anyways. I believe it might've been common for poorer stock.

Being from a culture that didn't develop shoes?

A bit less vaguely, I remember reading that sometimes Welsh archers would be known for only having one shoe, somehow having one bare foot helping them keep their footing in difficult terrain, which was good for skirmishing and guerrilla warfare.

Earth Genasi / Shaitan - need to be in contact with the earth to receive power. Attempting to force shoes on them makes them feel unholy or unclean, but, of course, is possible.

Cultural reasons - If your campaign is indoors, or in a clean cultural city - maybe the social taboos are not to wear shoes. Shoes are belonging only to dirty peasants and field workers.

Dwarven stone-cunning. - You learn about the stone and lay of the land because your feet are *that* sensitive to gradients and such.

>>51514087
They are literally synonyms.

>>51513209
Some sort of ability that requires touching the ground, maybe earth or plant based?

>>51516167
You'd think wild women would be more bare on top and less bare on the bottom. That seems to be how it is in less developed parts of the world.

>>51513209

>>51513922
This. If your body is your weapon and armour then why inhibit its speed and dexterity.

Also if I recall an conversation I had years ago correctly David Belle (THE parkour guy in France) doesn't wear shoes normally and as a result his feet are very muscular, his arches are ridiculously high, and his soles are like turtle shell.

>>51513441
>They're some sort of shapeshifter that tends to destroy (or at least not transform) what they're wearing, but at this point you have bigger concerns like "Well what about armor?" and "Do you have a servant following you everywhere carrying emergency sets of clothes for when you hulk out?"

>mfw I'm playing a character that has to deal with this shit

The way I figured a way to make it work is using very baggy clothes that are held in place by belts and bracers so they don't become too much of a hasle when travelling. When shifting, remove bracers and belt to loosen up your clothing to be in shape with the shifted form.

>>51516234
Unless, say, she lives in a warm coastal region where the primary food source is mussels and other animals fished out of shallow waters.

Like, if you live in a rainforest or a mountain or something you're gonna want to protect your legs from scratches and scrapes, but if you're spending most of your time in warm, shallow water, that's probably less of an issue. And nobody likes wet fabric clinging to their skin.

Just as a hypothetical.

>>51513209
your disgusting fetish, probably

game set in ireland

>>51513209
When all existing boots in the world are too flimsy to take the shit that character goes through on a daily basis.

One of my characters stopped bothering with clothes beyond pants after some time. Finding replacements time and again just became too damn annoying.

>>51516234
I'm sure there's a perfectly good explanation for why a piece of mass-market fantasy art aimed at a Western audience wouldn't feature bared female breasts.

>>51517365
She's not even facing the viewer; if her breasts were bare wouldn't matter in that context.

>>51513209
>has no sfw pics of toph
you get what i mean

>>51513261
Shoes don't protect you against caltrops in D&D. They literally do nothing.

>>51513209
The real question is - what's a good motivation to go bareback?

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>They're Hobbits
>They need to stay in contact with the earth to do magic
>They are so tough that shoes would offer no appreciable protection from the environment

>>51513209
Vow of poverty.

Is there any reason you need to specifically mention to the group that your character is barefoot?

>>51514087
Re-branding after TSR got a cease and desist.
That's also why Ents are "Treants" and Balrogs are "Balor."

>>51517944
Might come up, depending on the terrain.
The referee certainly needs to know (caltrops and traps and whatnot).

>>51513209
>assuming no magical realm at all

Sure, playing in a bronze or early iron age setting.

Extremely poor or uncivilized settings in general.

A character who is still a young child.

An extremely low str character that they have to minimize the amount of gear that they have on them to avoid encumbrance.

>>51517326
Excuse me, is there something I didn't know about Ireland?

>>51518078
>>51517873
Fuck off you guys. Wealthy women in ancient Rome went barefoot by choice, because they didn't have to worry about difficult terrain.

>>51513276
So Hobbits?

>>51519776
>wealthy women in ancient Rome
>at most 0.00001% of the population
>sits at home all day being taken care of by slaves
>totally a D&D character

>>51513209

halflings/hobbits/whatever races that are naturally barefoot.
Primitive characters that have little in the way of clothing (though once they become "civilised" there is little reason for them not to get shoes of some sort).

Druids and/or some kind of cleric (think Jonathan Pryce as the High Sparrow in GoT).

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>>51519997
The point is that rich people go barefoot by choice.

Because your shit is enchanted to look and feel stylized without sacrificing the actual function of the items in question. So you can wear shoes and armor, but it looks like you're not unless you want it to.

>>51514797
>>51514311
It is Queenblade indeed.
this show touche everything for fuck sake
>bunnygirl slime which lactate acide
>mud fight
>snake panties
>no panties
>leaf panties
>maid ghost who lose her clothe if she his attacked and have to kiss characters to steal energy
>milf with tits the size of her torso (and she is 2 metter tall
>loli girl who is actually 200 years old
>Tits
>Naughty nuns
>reverse aging
>tentacles aztec rapist girl
>and way more!

>>51521653
Nice

>>51513209
>is there any good motivation for a D&D character to go barefoot?
Yes, she is a beggar and doesn't have money for it.

Went hiking for a couple miles with a friend way back when. She grew up countryfied. She walked at least three miles over rocks and through thorns barefoot. Calloused feet are a real thing.

>>51522898
They're not "calloused", they're just desensitised to a degree.

so can we get some pics of bare feet male adventurers, or is this just a fetish thread?

>>51523009
>9 pictures
>fetish thread about female adventurers with bare feet
I think you're the one who wants to turn this into a fetish thread.

>>51523009
see>>51517847
>>51514277

>>51514897
Tell me again how these african athletes are running marathons barefoot anon.

>>51513209
Is there any good reason for real people to go barefoot? No, there is not, yet some people still do. There doesn't need to be logical reason for everything a character does, they are people, not computers. Maybe they just like it that way, nevermind the disadvantages.

>>51520589
For the same reason women today where stiletto heels, or why European nobles didn't start dressing like total fops until the death of chivalry: luxury. Luxury is pretty much this: I dress in the most retarded and impractical way humanly possible to show that I can afford to live a lifestyle that's overly expensive and in no way practical.

Practical clothes (whether it's a tunic or jeans) has always been the dress of the lower classes. The leisure class (not the warrior-nobility that actually did something) dress in the most impractical, self-destructive shit.

You may notice that women are overrepresented among history's leisure classes in pretty much all time periods. Draw your own conclusions. The only correct conclusion is that the power of pussy is incredible.

>>51527000
In ancient egypt it was normal for children to go completely naked, for most adults to wear only lower garments, and for the rich to wear fine transparent clothes.

>>51513209
maybe they don't have shoes or can't afford them?

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>>51519763

>>51527000
The power of pussy i'd argue was a pretty central fact in the birth of civilization, the gender roles we have today are probably the result of women having an much better reproductive value than men.

>>51527252
>the gender roles we have today
You mean where women get everything and men are told they're still oppressing women?

The gender roles we had about 150 years ago? Maybe you have a point there.

>>51527305
I can tell you spend a lot of time on the internet.

>>51527165
>dem bathrobes of war

>>51526643
>Is there any good reason for real people to go barefoot?
There actually is.
It feels good.

>>51527041
Ancient Egypt was a fucking desert. Putting on any more than extremely light clothing would just make you sweat like a wet sponge throughout the day.

>>51529702
Actually, ancient egypt was surprisingly lush and vibrant compared to today.

http://www.livescience.com/4180-sahara-desert-lush-populated.html

>>51530370
Interesting.

Although the article says the lush times end around when pharaonic society begins.

So if the lightly clad people that were mentioned was from that culture, they're still from a hot desert.

>>51526120
Do you never went outside or join any international or charity marathons until now?
Basement dwellers is only a joke, especially here in tg where most of us have quite a number of friends because of the hobby itself.

>>51530523
It's hard to be certain of anything regarding prehistory but it's doubtful that the clothing habits of the average person change significantly in the many millenia that humans existed in that part of the world.

And the farther back in time we go of the two, more clothed or less clothed the latter seems far more likely.

Despite fantasy worlds being fantastical one of the taboos never challenged is nudity being commonplace to some peoples and cultures. I suppose it smacks too closely of 'magical realm'.

>>51513261
Forget caltrops it's the hookworms that have me worried...

>>51533454
>hookworms
Lol, there's no such shit in Europe. Feels good man.

>>51513209
>spent all starting money on sick weapons and tools
>completely forget to buy armour or shoes later on

Hell I've played Fallout: New Vegas basically in the nude like this.

Physically tough hide that renders shoes essentially pointless. Like if you're a troll for instance. Or a race descended from earth elementals.

Hosiery is much superior to barefoot as a fetish.

>>51513209
It doesn't really make sense for any mundane humans but for spellcasters, elves or what not sure why not.

>>51536169
Where did this stereotype that elves must be barefoot even came from?

>>51529060
Exactly. You do not gain an advantage from it, you just like it that way.

>>51536526
because they're hippies.

>>51513367
Underrated post.

>>51513209
Rule of cool.
It's highly cinematic casual game, what else did you expect?

>>51537453
Unless they're some kind of wood elves... no.

>>51535609
Too bad the game (Whatever the game may be) is probably not set in historical Europe.

>>51513209
They're trying to cure a foot fungus?

They're a shapeshifter (into animal forms) and they'd get tired of either taking off their shoes first or breaking them each time (assuming they can't shapechange clothes).

They have a strong sense based on their feet (like that blind earthbender).

Their arch-nemesis is a famous cobbler.

>>51513404

Nice.

The most obvious thing that comes to mind: a religious vow. There were friar orders that forewent footwear to show humility in the face of Christ.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discalced_Carmelites

There you have it, a fine background for your clerics or paladins.

>>51513209
It's the GM's fetish

>>51544834
I would feel extremely uncomfortable if players started trying to indulge my fetish.

>>51513404
Now if only the pic hadn't been of a cutpurse.

>>51513209
"When in doubt of your footing, bare feet are best."

Anyone who can't place the quote should read a book.

>>51513209
She just escaped from prison

>>51547810
Just any book? Can it be something with incest?

>>51547810
I read a book 3 years ago and that quote wasn't in it faggot

>>51513237
This. shoes are awful for your feet but they are also necissary because we invented environments where foot protection is more necissary, like colder places, cities, mines, etc. Basically shoes are a necissary evil that can be abandoned when you return to mandkinds natural place of living.

>>51549519
>we invented environments where foot protection is more necissary, like colder places
dude, what?

>>51550332
I guess we invented walk-in freezers.
Wouldn't wanna go in one of those barefoot.

>>51549519
>we invented environments where foot protection is more necissary,
>cities
What? In 9 cases out of 10, cities are cleaner and safer to to barefoot than the countryside, unless it's some utter shithole with heaps of garbage lying around.

>>51513209
bathing

>>51554400
>permanent bathing

>>51548863
>prison
>barefoot
..what?

>>51554488
like a fish dude?

>>51554353
I was on a vacation in australia, and I took a guided tour for a day through some of the rainforest and waterfalls. My tour guide was an old bowlegged man with a ton of knowledge and cool stories and he refused to wear shoes, said he was just more comfortable barefoot.

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>>51513209
It's fucking D&D. A wizard can go around in the nude with a combination of Mage Armor and Endure Elements granting them the defensive equivalent of a steel breastplate and warm fur coat.

>>51554778
>australia
That explains everything

>>51513209
1. lack of hobnails in the culture, in a hilly enviroment.
2. need for grip, i've lived by the coast a bit and if you want to climb down the erosion stopping rocks it's much better to go bare foot, you cann feel how the stone reacts better and fit your weight bette with the bare foot.
3. tribal, i've heard there are tribes that run barefoot for miles in south america over plains for some reason. it is also 100% more effective then anything European because new age bullshit
point is lots of reasons, hell medevil regions had people go bare foot without hobnaile shoes all the time to a fight.

>>51554778
>>51554797
It's more Australian if he was wearing thongs though.

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>>51513209
>Ctrl+f Natural Armor.

Not sure about the other editions but +1 kicked enough defense to count as a good pair of shoes or swim through sand without worrying about abrasions. Higher than that's easy enough to get access to. The real reason for going for shoes after that is foot-slot magic items and such, but you can put those on anklets or the like.

Presuming WBL is stable, after level 5 any clothes are mostly either fashion or buffs. Their practicality is lost outside of cultural or aesthetic or practical purposes.

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>>51554695
That's how it actually was in the Middle Ages.

Lots of people say magical realm, but as a footfag it strikes me as if you'd have to do more than just be barefoot.

>>51539048

That's kind of the stereotypical elf though.

>>51556478
This. It's not some videogame where you constantly have your character in front of you. I usually don't even remember what my characters are wearing and have to look it up in the inventory if it becomes relevant for some reason.

>>51513209
Please go stomp on a d4-covered lego brick.