Get dressed already! (does your mage wear robes?)

[James Heard]

Hmm

A short lived mage I had that wore a leather loin cloth, an enormous voodoo mask (which would have eventually been enchanted), bone necklaces and earrings made of human ears. Oh, and he carried a rattle - because I had a prop.

My last evoker wore everything in red, always, with skulls. He didn't really care, except it all had to be as expensive as he could afford and "clearly better than the peasants he was adventuring with". He also kept his moustaches and goatee waxed into points and had a tendency to burn things when his beer didn't arrive promptly.

Before that, there was the wizard who wore 'swashbuckling sheik', poofy hats and feathers, carried a rapier that he knew virtually nothing about how to use, a half dozen holy symbols of various faiths around his neck over his prominently displayed chest hair (for maximum pimp), and I think he's the one who had the pet sheep complete with saddle.

My longest lasting wizard just wore goat and pig leathers dyed white (and magically preserved to shed anything BUT white), with the occassional white dressing gown when he'd pull off the "I'm elven so I go study this problem for a decade, see you guys in a while" and make maximumly creepy use of his Imperial Library Member Card ("I've got a 20 Wisdom, maybe *I* don't know what I'm doing in there for 10 years, but I'm sure Moon finds it quite profound and explainable.")

 

[Ao the Overkitty]

My barbarian wears nothing but his chain shirt and a metal potion belt. The only thing he carries is a Large Steel shield.

 

[Privateer]

Best druid I had: an elf, who wore nothing whatsoever He just used a staff as a weapon.

I swear... Eric's grandma just cost me a great joke there.

 

[cybertalus]

Style question. What does your wizard wear - the wizardly robes and funny pointed hat, or stylish travelin' pants and a comfortable shirt?

Haven't played many arcane casters, but the ones I have played were always of the robe wearing, pointy hat loving, let's get that beard growing variety. The beard (for males only, unless you're a dwarf) is as essential in my mind as the pointy hat. Even if I played a twelve year-old human apprentice wizard, he'd be TRYING to grow a beard or sideburns or something.

In any case I think all the big billowly clothing serves a practical purpose for wizards. If George Lucas is to be believed the reason many warrior types from Asia wore robes was to help hide their footwork from their enemies during swordplay. I would presume that for a wizard the robes and cloaks and hats would similarly help to make his gestures more difficult to observe, thus reducing an enemy spellcaster's chance to react to his spell before he finished casting it. The beard, too, would make any lip-reading more difficult.

Regardless, for any non-rogue character I tend to pick a color or two that they're fond of and theme their clothes around that color. My rogues dress for the job at hand. Dark colors for stealthy situations, more neutral colors for normal daily interaction, greens during wilderness operations, and something bright for the rare occasion he actually wants to call attention to himself.

 

[iceifur]

My wizard?

Female Half-Nymph/Human Fighter 2/Diviner 4/Spellsword (CW) 5/Eldritch Knight 2

Beauty, brains, corset, and a goodly dash of silk and chainmail. Of course, her best accessory is the Iron Lich she travels with, because black goes with everything. And yes, I'm a munchkin .

-B-

 

[Zhure]

If George Lucas is to be believed the reason many warrior types from Asia wore robes was to help hide their footwork from their enemies during swordplay. I would presume that for a wizard the robes and cloaks and hats would similarly help to make his gestures more difficult to observe, thus reducing an enemy spellcaster's chance to react to his spell before he finished casting it.

I tend to think it's more common for arcanists to wear robes to disguise their George Lucas-like physique.
Greg

 

[Inconsequenti-AL]

My last wizard - Dagmar - wore robes. However, those were to hide the bandages. Which held together her brittle and flaky skin. One result of sinister experiments (tm) performed on her, by her master.

All in all, she was quite derranged and had little to no idea what life was like outside of a necromancers tower. Although she was unendingly curious about everything...

I liked her! She was fun....

 

[RangerWickett]

My last wizard - Dagmar - wore robes. However, those were to hide the bandages. Which held together her brittle and flaky skin. One result of sinister experiments (tm) performed on her, by her master.

All in all, she was quite derranged and had little to no idea what life was like outside of a necromancers tower. Although she was unendingly curious about everything...

I liked her! She was fun....

That's a really intriguing character concept. I'll have to find a use for something like it some day. *grins*

Oh, and don't forget, there's also the lovely magic-wielding nymphette species that don't wear clothes:

Russ was apparently rather amused we would be using this as our cover.

 

[Gez]

My gnome wizard was wearing pants and a sort of poncho with a lot of pockets on the inside (to make it harder for pickpockets to take stuff).

 

[Hand of Evil]

Overall my wizard tends to look like a fisherman.

My wizard wears pantaloons, loose shirt, belt/slash with pouches, vest of many pockets (think fisherman vest), pointy hat with items (feathers, vials) attached and good traveling boots. He also has a duster that he wears over that.