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<blockquote data-quote="Faolyn" data-source="post: 8269914" data-attributes="member: 6915329"><p>Except, well... you talk about only nobles wearing some things. The PCs are likely to be richer than many nobles. Which means they're likely going to wear noble clothing. "Fine clothing" only costs 15 gp, after all. </p><p></p><p>Secondly, you can't say "no, that's 12th century," or "no, that's 16th century," because D&D doesn't take place in <em>any </em>of those centuries. It takes place in a nebulous time period that spans from the "Dark Ages" to beyond the Renaissance, and contains dozens of different cultural influences--some of which are outside that millennium and some of which are outside Europe, and some of which are completely made up. </p><p></p><p>So your average player is going to look up medieval clothing, find something like this</p><p></p><p>[SPOILER="Spoilered for size and codpiece"]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]136729[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>or</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]136726[/ATTACH]</p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">(Lo! I say unto you: silly hats!)</span></p><p></p><p>Or</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]136725[/ATTACH]</p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">(Not the weirdest codpiece I found)</span></p><p></p><p>or</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]136728[/ATTACH]</p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">(Another silly hat!)</span></p><p></p><p>[/SPOILER]</p><p></p><p>and think, OK, my options are big dresses (if I'm playing a girl) or a giant blouse, biker shorts or tights, plus jock strap (if I'm playing a guy), and a silly hat (for any gender).</p><p></p><p>And that's not taking into consideration that nonhuman clothing is likely quite different, and the <em>human </em>PCs could be from a place that's not not!Europe.</p><p></p><p>So it's completely understandable that players are going to throw that away in favor of something that's not at all "medieval" but looks cool and appropriately fantastic.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Faolyn, post: 8269914, member: 6915329"] Except, well... you talk about only nobles wearing some things. The PCs are likely to be richer than many nobles. Which means they're likely going to wear noble clothing. "Fine clothing" only costs 15 gp, after all. Secondly, you can't say "no, that's 12th century," or "no, that's 16th century," because D&D doesn't take place in [I]any [/I]of those centuries. It takes place in a nebulous time period that spans from the "Dark Ages" to beyond the Renaissance, and contains dozens of different cultural influences--some of which are outside that millennium and some of which are outside Europe, and some of which are completely made up. So your average player is going to look up medieval clothing, find something like this [SPOILER="Spoilered for size and codpiece"] [ATTACH type="full"]136729[/ATTACH] or [ATTACH type="full" width="332px"]136726[/ATTACH] [SIZE=2](Lo! I say unto you: silly hats!)[/SIZE] Or [ATTACH type="full" width="257px"]136725[/ATTACH] [SIZE=2](Not the weirdest codpiece I found)[/SIZE] or [ATTACH type="full" width="216px"]136728[/ATTACH] [SIZE=2](Another silly hat!)[/SIZE] [/SPOILER] and think, OK, my options are big dresses (if I'm playing a girl) or a giant blouse, biker shorts or tights, plus jock strap (if I'm playing a guy), and a silly hat (for any gender). And that's not taking into consideration that nonhuman clothing is likely quite different, and the [I]human [/I]PCs could be from a place that's not not!Europe. So it's completely understandable that players are going to throw that away in favor of something that's not at all "medieval" but looks cool and appropriately fantastic. [/QUOTE]
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