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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 7651528" data-attributes="member: 8835">I have a simple rule for dressing up for RenFair that applies well to real life.Keep your hands free.  if you bring it, you carry it or wear it.As such, it's all great to want to be a wizard, but if you do, you're going to be carrying that staff in your hand all day.That makes it harder to eat with 2 hands, or look at stuff in shops, or even go to the rest room.In real life, I don't even like to carry a bag.  Everything I need should fit in my pockets.  Knife, wallet, smart phone.I have a great leather messenger bag.  But if I bring it, it means bringing my ipad, and then getting handed everything else that needs carrying.Travel light.that said, I like good tools and especially multi-purpose tools.  Pocket knives with a few different utility blades, but not so many that the knife itself becomes a burden in my pocket.  Smartphone, because it really does a ton of different practical things (tell time, make calls, get a map, play music, get information).  Why would anybody want to carry a watch, a dumbphone, an MP3 player, a GPS, a book reader as seperate devices when they are out and about.Now as to Rel's case of "body" surfing, that's an odd duck.  I don't know anything about surfing.  It is possible, that his minimalistic style will become a new olympic sport.  Or, his relatives really suck at surfing and thus struggle to get out there with a board.  And his body surfing really was more like being washed ashore like a piece of flotsam, he just couldn't see it from his perspective.Basically, there is the inverse extreme of carrying too much stuff, and that is carrying so little that you don't know you're struggling harder than you need to.  Kind of like pulling slips of paper to roll dice, because you thought it was more efficient to go to GenCon without any dice.  As the greeks allegedly used to say, "nothing to excess."  Carrying a single set of dice, a pen and notepad to GenCon is probably a smart payload.  Carrying your entire dice collection, not so much.For gaming, I found that a dice set and ipad are a really compact payload.</blockquote>

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