Would/Do You Wear A D&D T-shirt In Public?

[stevelabny]

Don't get me wrong. I'm a well adjusted, professional man (I lost my amature status when I won a manliness tournament), I just decided that at this stage of my life, attracting members of the opposite sex ranks higher on my priority list than showing gamer pride.

But thats the mistake. "Regular clothes" = mostly a neutral reaction. Might turn off people who assume you're too straight-laced or boring, might attract someone who think youre stylish and expects a certain kind of guy to go with that.

"Geek clothes" = turn off to people who wouldn't want to deal with your hobby, or find you stupid or boring, turn on to geek girls. pretty much weeding out people you don't want to talk to, and helping you find people that you do want to talk to.

now some people believe that opposites attract, and its better if you and your significant other don't share many of the same hobbies, but I of course disagree with that. I am geek-snob, I don't want to deal with non-geeks if I don't have to.

 

[pogre]

I have a couple of t-shirts I received as gifts/prizes for DMing at RPGA events. I have worn them on gaming nights, but that's about it. I really am too lazy to explain my shirt at the gym or at practice or wherever else I wear t-shirts. I used to wear a Reaper miniatures shirt and most people assumed it was a death metal band shirt

 

[Lazybones]

I don't have a D&D shirt, but I have one I bought from the first Neverwinter Connections NWCon (2003) with a dragon and logo on the front and back, and I wear that one a lot. Got me a new player, once, when a friend commented on it.

 

[Thotas]

I too have a Green Lantern shirt, and it gets favorable comments ... more often than I ever expected. Didn't think that many people would even recognize the symbol. And my by-now-in-to-poor-of-shape-to-wear-in-public souvenir shirt from Gen Con did get a "cool shirt" comment and a "what do you play?" comment. Both from females. The first was actually a local semi-celebrity, lead singer in a popular local band.

 

[Agamon]

I don't know what happened to my Hal Jordan GL shirt, but I still have the Kyle Rayner GL shirt...less recognizable, though.

I don't have a "D&D" shirt...had one as a kid that had the AD&D logo with the saying "So many monsters, so little time." Didn't wear it much though. I now have an "I spent all my treasure on ale & whores" shirt from PvP and a Trogdor the Burninator shirt from Homestar Runner. I'll wear them on a game day, but I've never worn them to work or anything.

 

[burnrate]

Don't have one, never will, and wouldn't wear one if it found its way into my closet.

 

[Arcane Runes Press]

"Geek clothes" = turn off to people who wouldn't want to deal with your hobby, or find you stupid or boring, turn on to geek girls. pretty much weeding out people you don't want to talk to, and helping you find people that you do want to talk to.

now some people believe that opposites attract, and its better if you and your significant other don't share many of the same hobbies, but I of course disagree with that. I am geek-snob, I don't want to deal with non-geeks if I don't have to.

Yig.

For me, this is like a two paragraph summary of a Hell of a man's own choosing.

YMMV (your mileage may vary).

Patrick Y.

 

[Skrit]

I would wear one.. In fact I wear my Mega Man shirt all the time. It has a pic of the old 8bit mega man and all the 8 master robots around him. The writing on the shirt says "I defeated all the Master Robots".

Other then that I have a Soul Calibur shirt, Sisters of Battle games workshop shirt (I get a lot of comments on that one from people wanting tattoos of the sister), Metal Gear Solid shirt, etc.. So yeah I have no Qualms wearing stuff like that =)

 

[CharlesRyan]

I have a variety of D&D shirts--Ts, pullovers, and buttondowns. I wear them all the time (in fact I'm wearing one now).

There's a subtext to this thread (or maybe a supertext?) that one might get a lot of negative reactions from the public at large. Hasn't been my experience at all. I've had a few positive comments from strangers who turned out to be gamers or ex-gamers, but never as much as a single negative glance.

 

[Buttercup]

There's a subtext to this thread (or maybe a supertext?) that one might get a lot of negative reactions from the public at large. Hasn't been my experience at all. I've had a few positive comments from strangers who turned out to be gamers or ex-gamers, but never as much as a single negative glance.

Yup, same here.

And the idea that wearing a gamer shirt will scare off women assumes that 1) no women are gamers and 2) it's a good idea to lie about your hobbies in the interest of getting a date. Neither of these are true.

While I don't claim to be Miss America myself, one of my female players is quite lovely, and when I recruited her into my campaign she was single. She's now married to a gamer (another one of my players), and one of the first things he gave her was a Trogdor t-shirt. And speaking of lovely Trogdor fans, have you ever seen JGBrowning's wife Suzi Yee? There are attractive, intelligent, successful gamers of both sexes. And most of the world has no opinion whatsoever about our hobby.