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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Teflon Billy" data-source="post: 3695458" data-attributes="member: 264">There are lots of Artists in my campaign world, but they are more "artisan" than artist really (since most of the art they create is commissioned by Religious Orders or the wealthy).Statues, Bas-Reliefs, Mosaics, Gargoyles (I've never really managed to explain to my own satisfaction why Artisans are permitted to create camouflage for actual Gargoyles like this<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />)...emplacement stuff.Portraiture is mostly practiced by painters at the behest of the rich and the powerful, Religious Scenes at the behest of the Churches.There is no real "Art Scene" outside of the patronage salons of the rich.Lots of the idle rich will pretty much wage war over their access to their favorite artists though.I've given some thought in the past to having an angry artist begin releasing paintings that were either Blasphemous or Anarchic, but I never went anywhere with it.Fashion plays a huge role in my games though. PC's who think they can move around in civilization in their plate mail find that not only are they looked down upon as brutes and thugs, but that they are simply not taken seriously by folks who matter.At one point in the campaign when the group were basically just secret mercenaries of a crown prince, his father discovered them and was impressed by their competence in comparison to most of his own people. He granted them peerages (Knightly Dubbings without lands), insisted that their Company become a Knightly Order (So Kogusar's Black Legion became The Order of the Black Shield) and had a tailor properly garb them...(inexplicably, they chose Cavalry Dress uniforms despite the highest ride score amongst them being 2).If they had refused any of those changes, they'd probably have been killed as "rogue elements" by the Duke.As it worked out, they were welcomed into court society, and were something of a "celebrity Group"...rough edges and all...because they were dressed properly.They started loving magic items other than arms and armor at this point in their careers...jewelery being their favorite format as they didn't have to ditch it when they got back to town.</blockquote>

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