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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MGibster" data-source="post: 9528295" data-attributes="member: 4534">Let's get this out of the way.  Of course it depends on the setting, the PCs culture, and what they do for a living.  But how are they dressed compared to the average person in the campaign?  In the default D&D campaign, the player characters are adventurers, or weirdos as I like to call them.  These folks are often well equipped and well armed itinerate workes whose main labor involves a copious amount of violence.  They live very different lives from that of the average person in your campaign.  (Probably.  Maybe you have a campaign where everyone is an adventurer.  I don't know.)  I bought the 2024 PHB not too long ago, and as I was browsing through the section on Wizards I spied this little picture.  Can you imagine sitting in a tavern, drinking some ale with your pals, talking about all the cargo you unloaded today (you're a stevedore), and you see this dude walk in.  [ATTACH=full]388691[/ATTACH]"Who the hell is this and why is he dressed like that?" is what you might say to your drinking pals.  Quietly of course.  It's obvious he's an adventurerer and it's bad luck to make an adventurer angry.  You wouldn't like them when they're angry.  It'd be like me sitting at my local BBQ joint here in Arkansas and seeing this man walk into the establishment. [ATTACH=full]388692[/ATTACH]Looking at the 2024 PHB, most of the depictions of character classes show them wearing rather ostentatious fashion.  I can't help but think there's something kind of awesome about that.  Like it or not, how you dress conveys a message to other people.  People like these two adventurers are trying to say something to everyone who sees them.  Something along the lines of, "I envy you because you get to look at me."  Does anyone take note of what their characters and others wearin D&D games?  When I play a Wizard, I always make sure I'm dressed like a traditional Wizard.  My character didn't go to Wizard University to dress like a regular schlub.  He gets to wear the pointy hat so everyone knows he's a Wizard instead of one of those community college Sorcerers or one of those Bards who went to art school.</blockquote>

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