Have the PCs in your party seen each other naked?

[Pielorinho]

That poison ivy is never going to be your friend.

I dunno about that, though. I've never gotten poison ivy when I was naked, and I've gotten it several times when I was wearing clothes. The conclusion seems inescapable....

Daniel

 

[Agemegos]

Back then, it was scandalous for a lady to reveal an ankle

You seem to be confusing the Nineteenth and early 20th Centuries with the Mediaeval period, as well as over-generalising horribly about a thousand years of history for an area a thousand miles across east-to-west and north-to-south, occupied by scores of different ntional groups.

 

[Agemegos]

Very few could afford to buy clothes specificcally for sleeping in, and at the same time you couldn't afford to sleep in daywear lest it wear out too fast. So most would sleep naked under the covers, and rely on the body heat of others sharing the same bed to keep warm.

Good point. I remember reading somewhere that the sleeping garment of which we have the earliest records by at least two centuries is the nightcap.

 

[Agemegos]

In answer to the OP:

My campaign setting is tropical and pretty warm. Clothing styles are very revealing. Communal bathing is usual, although mixed bathing is usually confined to family and close friends. People go nude as a matter of course when swimming, boating, engaging in athletic exercise, and engaging in pursuits that would be likely to get clothes dirty or wet, such as slaughtering livestock, planting rice, digging in the dirty and mud, or doing laundry. The characters in the party have been friends since childhood. I presume that they have all seen each other naked, and made nothing of it.

 

[haiiro]

I didn't expect this thread to last nearly as long as it did, and I've enjoyed it thoroughly. Ironically enough, it far surpasses any other thread I've ever started in terms of views and responses -- including the ones I gave deep, serious thought to. Heh.

Is this important? Nope -- but I think it's pretty funny.

(And I was serious about the original question, as it's not an issue I'd ever given much thought to before. There are a lot of really neat responses in this thread, including far more "Yep, they sure have" answers than I would have guessed.)