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Message: <blockquote data-quote="D+1" data-source="post: 2121567" data-attributes="member: 13654">Never done it.  Don't know anyone who has.  Depends on how overboard anybody would get with it as to how I'd react if they did.  Closest I've gotten is to wear a few amusing buttons on my shirt like, "Some people adventure for the money, some for the fame, others for the gold.  Me, I just like to kill things." or, "A sucking chest wound is nature's way of telling you to slow down."I MIGHT do such a thing as more of a use of a prop when DMing.  For example, put on an imperious-looking robe when the game turns to the PC's having an important conversation with the Emperor or some such.  But to do so just as a matter of course to "get into character"?  Definitely not.With all due respect, it's just that kind of thing that freaks the mundanes and gives the hobby the worst appearance possible.  It's why they make movies like Cruel Doubt and portray D&D the way it did.  Probably why I have no respect whatever for LARPs while knowing full well that there's nothing inherently WRONG with it.Hey, if it's your bag, enjoy.  Don't let me stop you.  REALLY.  Just don't call it D&D when you dress up in garb and wave around a sword while talking in your most outrageous accent.  D&D is NOT dress-up and vice-versa.  I much prefer to both maintain and present myself as possessing (both publicly and privately) a clear distinction between fantasy and reality.  Mixing dress-up and D&D simultaneously as a matter of course is something I distinctly wish to distance myself and my hobby from.  While you and I may know full well that it's "just part of the fun" it has a SHOCKINGLY different appearance.  Different enough to vastly outshine the "fun" with embarrassment.Trekkers have a similar dichotomous relationship as afficianados.  Dressing up like a Klingon or as Federation officer is fun.  Was a time in my youth that I'd have done so myself and had a blast.  In the right time and place I still would.  But it's the EXTREME Trekkers who unfortunately and unfairly give all the rest the reputation of being similarly wacked.  They make what would otherwise be seen as good, clean, simple fun look like a circus of freaks.</blockquote>

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