Alignments and Fashion

[Yair]

Why is it that the Evil warriors always have black spiked armor, with skulls? Why do the evil spellcaster females dress so provocatively? And why do the good paladins dress up in shining armor, and the Good wizards in flowing white robes?

I suggest that in D&D your moral view (alignment) also determines your sense of style (fashion). It's the only possible explanation.

 

[Rystil Arden]

I once switched those standards around in a mystery, and the PCs were completely convinced--incorrectly, of course--that the modestly-dressed girl was the good one and the provocatively-dressed girl was evil.

 

[Mouseferatu]

Why is it that the Evil warriors always have black spiked armor, with skulls?

Because they can get away with it.

Seriously. Everyone here would dress in spiked armor and skulls if they could, at least on occasion. Don't lie, you would. It'd be a blast. But people would laugh at you. So only if you're evil, and can therefore kill said people indescriminately, can you get away with wearing such an outfit.

 

[Orm]

It´s the same as with western movies. The bad guys allways wear black hats. It makes them easier to recognise them

 

[DragonLancer]

Because in D&D alignment is a real and tangible force in the multiverse, and it affects and colours everything in that multiverse.

 

[shilsen]

Once the DM in a group I was in described an approaching rider as a burly man wearing coal-black spiked full-plate armor, with what looked like an executioner's axe, with small silver skulls used for decoration, on a black horse. The PCs almost attacked him on sight. Good thing they didn't, since it was my replacement PC, who just happened to be a paladin of the (homebrew) fairly grim goddess of death, retribution and executioners.

 

[Hand of Evil]

Not in my game, except for the female spellcasters part and that goes for all the females.

It also makes it easier for me to find art to apply to NPCs.

 

[BiggusGeekus]

Why do the evil spellcaster females dress so provocatively?

Be fair. Good aligned spellcasters do this much more often in 3e.

 

[StupidSmurf]

Because they can get away with it.

Seriously. Everyone here would dress in spiked armor and skulls if they could, at least on occasion. Don't lie, you would. It'd be a blast. But people would laugh at you. So only if you're evil, and can therefore kill said people indescriminately, can you get away with wearing such an outfit.

This has to be one of the most brilliant pieces of reasoning that has to do with alignments that I've seen in quite a while. Seriously!

 

[Voadam]

Why is it that the Evil warriors always have black spiked armor, with skulls? Why do the evil spellcaster females dress so provocatively? And why do the good paladins dress up in shining armor, and the Good wizards in flowing white robes?

I suggest that in D&D your moral view (alignment) also determines your sense of style (fashion). It's the only possible explanation.

It's even written into some rules. My good eldritch knight's robe of the archmagi is a white robe.