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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elf Witch" data-source="post: 5901921" data-attributes="member: 9037">I have to disagree on the eccentric dress showing a more creative person. I have nothing against pink hair and eye brow piercings or even goth clothes. I gamed with a woman who was into retro clothes and dressed solely in fashions from the 30, 40, 50 and 60. Some of this can be a way of expressing your personality and that is cool. But some of it is more about attracting drama and wanting people to look at them and those people are often selfish spot light hogs at the table.Clothes should be appropriate to the setting. If you are going out to a club to attract a mate then a low cut shirt and revealing a lot of skin makes sense, But to walk into a book store to meet a potential DM dressed like that makes me wonder why do you want to game are you looking for a boyfriend/girlfriend?  Save the hip huggers and low cut shirts for the right setting. When you meet a first person for the first time you first impression is based on how they look and present themselves. If that first impression is bad then you have to work harder to put across a positive impression.First impression are not always right. My first impression of a guy who later turned out to be the best DM I have played with was not a great one. There he was at the table of our Shadowrun game. Our GM had invited him without telling the rest of us. He came across as such a jerk. Much later I realized that he was not a jerk that his sense of humor was the type that could be taken that way. I have also had first impression that were favorable turn out to be very wrong. But that does change the fact that we humans do this. And it is why success coaches stress the importance of making a good first impression.</blockquote>

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