Prototype Artemis beta
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Especially when the op of this topic is female herself. It’s not uncommon for female gamers to prefer the making a character overtly sexy. I’ve played with quite a few women who pretty much all do the same thing. Some of them even max out the boob slider, one in particular had a thing for collecting large breasted dancers (and yes, she was straight). I think the idea is that they’d never dress that way in real life, but to live out that fantasy in a game is fun for them. Regardless, judging someone based on their personal outfit and armor preferences isn’t cool.
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One of the wonderful things about fantasies is they can be enjoyed, indulged in, and used for inspiration without any harm done in reality. The issue many have is when they decide they have to judge someone based on their fantasies. Which is entirely wrong.
Fantasies are Fantasy. They don’t reflect reality. They don’t reflect a person’s preferences or ideologies. Most importantly they do not reflect a person’s character.
Over the last four decades I have played characters in video games, table top role-play, and table top strategy games that have run various spectrums. Characters that have had ideals, characteristics, abilities, weaknesses, preferences, morals, ethics, desires, wants, needs, traits, and such that are not only vastly different than myself, but in many cases diametrically so.
So when someone asks for clothing that looks more revealing, sexy, more protective, more realistic, whatever. I say for the most part… go for it.
All I ask is that we stick to the common theme of the Hyborian Age. If there is anything we do have in common with our fantasies here is that we are playing Conan Exiles.
“Know, oh prince, that between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis and the gleaming cities, and the years of the rise of the Sons of Aryas, there was an Age undreamed of, when shining kingdoms lay spread across the world like blue mantles beneath the stars - Nemedia, Ophir, Brythunia, Hyperborea, Zamora with its dark-haired women and towers of spider-haunted mystery, Zingara with its chivalry, Koth that bordered on the pastoral lands of Shem, Stygia with its shadow-guarded tombs, Hyrkania whose riders wore steel and silk and gold. But the proudest kingdom of the world was Aquilonia, reigning supreme in the dreaming west. Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandalled feet.”
-The Nemedian Chronicles
Sums up everything we’re here for.
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I honestly don’t care about breaking lore with outfits. I enjoy the lore well enough, but I’m not one to want to confine myself to a singular theme. My clan RPs as pirates and my base is themed like a later Middle Ages port town. I’m not about to deny I like to play the game how I want to.
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Clothing and armors are femenine enough for a Conan game.
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For those not steeped in the deep lore, pretty much everything is fair game except absurdly oversized glowing pauldrons.
Poitain is arguably Early Renaissance.
The various pirates are often reminiscent of the Golden Age of Piracy, meanwhile, other cultures seem to be puttering about in the Bronze, Stone, or Chalcolithic ages.
We have Song-Yuan dynasty China with Mughal or Ashokan India for good measure.
Oh, and magic from long vanished civilizations from a wide variety of environments… some of those societies not even being human.
This is only the tip of the ice berg.
There are even arguments for more modern options as canon, but this one will leave those aside.
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Chocoholic age sounds delicious. 
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Hey now, this isn’t the thread about how we need an update to the food system.
Altho a blend of seeds, spice, and honey could be a good stand in for Aztec style Cocoa.
Besides, Ice Cream sandwiches predate the Roman Empire.
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Le Salon du Chocolat… 
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They would melt in the heat of the Desert and Jungle.
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I swear that was a scene in willy Wonka.
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Psh… that only makes it sexier. 
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LMAO, look at that shit.
This is Conan not Black Desert Online, thats the most generic armors, the only reason i play Conan is different from 99% of all medieval fantasy games, i prefer ancient style than medieval fantasy, dont count on me for that.
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That belongs in this other thread. 
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Basically what I meant. Ty for proving my point.
I don’t think there is something more ancient than a sari, toga, or light clothing of the sort.
The ancient armors might not be as covering as we’d like them to be.
But we’re talking about real civilization here, Conan’s world is fictional.
Let’s not forget that MEN would go to combat more than women in real life, the armors we know of were shaped after them. Though there might have been exceptions like the Amazons, monks, maybe assassins… but let’s face it, we know so little when it comes to the attire of female warriors.
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Females in antiquity wearing armor probably did like they do now in combat. Wear the same stuff as the guys. IBAS and OTV’s are unisex, why wouldn’t mail or plates be any different?
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Minoan women, who are even more ancient than your standard Ancient Greek civilization, had their breasts exposed. It’s also often said that their fashion inspired the French push-up corsets with exposed cleavage used in more recent societies.
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