How do characters in your tabletop games usually dress?
In the serious one or the unapologetic erp one?
>>46734391
The serious one. We already know how the erp one works.
>>46734324
Something befitting their profession.
Which ultimately depends on the setting.
Depends. I very much like having poor individuals, dressed in rags. However this becomes impractical as wealth is accumulated.
If we're talking high fantasy I always go for glamered weapons and glamered armor. It's very fun to force an opponent into the realization that you've been ready to fight this entire time.
I generally stay somewhere between the super realism extreme and fanservice extreme. I like going for something that looks somewhat practical, even if I don't necessarily give much thought to things like boob-plate being ineffective or whatever... but I also go enough towards the fanservice end for the character designs to have their own style and flavor. Pic related is probably something I wouldn't mind using for a character portrait, for example.
Depends on the player.
In my campaign, my player characters dress appropriate to the area for the most part, there's 2 outliers though; one gril who dresses like a white mage from Final Fantasy, and another gril who dresses like a slutty video game character. The slutty video game character is ran by an actual girl though.
My characters, when I play, dress appropriate to their station and origin in life. My lizardfolk druid dressed like a druid with shamanistic flair, my paladin was armored, packing steel, and shinier than Mr. Clean's house before his wife's parents come to visit, and mymy drow sorcerer dressed like an elegant BDSM slave underneath a robe made of spidersilk.
>>46734324
That's a good question, interestingly enough we, the players, give each other IC descriptions without meaning to a lot of the time. Which is probably a good thing because it for the most part fits the setting and class.
>>46734324
well I'm playing a Lich so I decided to go full natural.
>>46734447
Stylized practicality then.
Ridiculous ornamentation doesn't really bother me, giant swathes of unarmored flesh does
Sensibly, with a bit of flare to demonstrate my success and prowess and draw the eye of potential patrons.
The superhero game I'm working on could be described as high-priced call girls vs apocalyptic cults. So everything from business suits to pic related.
Depends on the game. If I have moderate money I dress casual with armor, a lot of money is full plate and custom tailored outfits when out of armor, low money is whatever I can strip off of someone I've just killed that is still useable and only slightly less stained.
>>46734324
Appropriately.
>>46734447
Besides the one player who tried to play a rakshasa-tiefling-catgirl-courtesan, I've only seen people dressed appropriately. If they care to mention what they wear at all. Usually it's just; I'm wearing plate armor. I'm wearing leather armor.
I've had a (male) Gnome Sylvan Sorcerer run around with a kilt and battlepaint (It's the only armor I'm proficient in, and I rock it!'), A Noble Fighter who would wear silk clothing under his padding and armor ('Just in case'), and a grumpy Tiefling Bard who preferred woolen sweaters with dorky designs on them. ('I'm a librarian dammit, not a man-slut')
When my Don Quixote like minotaur is not in his armour, he is wearing what I described as 1700s French aristocratic style, but made of stained rags and by someone who had mostly only read what they looked like. I also pointed out that, while made from poor materials, the care and patients that went in to it is both visible and incredible.
Sadly I don't have a good picture of what this would be, and I can't draw for shit
>>46734324
Bit of a mix of Vikings and conquistadors with practical armour. the first "dungeon" was against newbie bandits that thought the shitty armour you see on women and men in fairy tales is actually how you dress as a bandit.
>>46735046
>rakshasa-tiefling-catgirl-courtesan
Go on.
>>46734324
MAGA hats.
>>46735046
>tiefling bard
>sweater with dorky designs
I don't understand anon, are you saying you're playing a d&d campaign set in the modern day? Or does your fantasy world have shade-grown artisanal sweatshops that churn out cafepress sweaters?
How much thought I put into it varies, but it generally doesn't come up. They're usually covered in heavy robes anyway.
>>46735268
I wonder what the story is with the one on the left.
Barefoot.
>>46735353
But why?
>>46735337
In my game? She a cohort. Barbarian rescued her from an even more barbaric tribe. Healer, minion, general servant. Eventually friend.
She actually dresses much more reasonably because she finds the surface world constantly cold.
Barbarian did dress on that order though, both because she likes scars, very light armor, and showing off her scars and muscles, and because her bare skin is equivalent to a full suit of chainmail with none of the penalties.autocorrect tried to change that to 'panties'. No. Bad autocorrect.
>>46735368
Because there's an abundance of soft grass and not-pointy stuff on the ground, and also it reminds me of the countryside where I grew up where you could still do that sort of thing.
My character dresses as a maid. Because that is what she is. She is absolutely not one of a legion of artificial humanoids created by a multidimensional corporation as personal assistants for mid to upper level employees as well as a hidden military. And if she were, she certainly would not be sentient and hiding it to avoid being scrapped and replaced.
>>46734324
Cutely!
All of of my modern setting characters generally tend to be cutegirly guysin skimpy clothing. Lizardfolk like to feel the sun on their skin after all.
>>46735304
it's a hand-stitched ugly wool christmas sweater nigga
>>46735304
>There's no Hiterian Living Polyester in his setting
>there's no Abyssal Nylon in his setting
>batorian cotton is unavailable
Getaloadofthisprime.jpg
>>46735009
Source? I've seen several renditions of this character so I now rather suspect she's part of something larger than one artist's attempt to produce fapbait.
>>46736178
Code of Princess. Just got ported to Steam, actually.
the changeling storm bloodline sorcerer/ paladin of death wears usually loose and revealing but with greater importance on style than promiscuity because they just like to feel the elements on their skin. but when they come to armor they don't kid around with a stylish but full plate armor that they can summon to them.
>>46735304
>What is knitting?
>>46735295
pic related
>>46734324
Good design trumps realism or titilation. Character portrait is not the most important part of the game by far, but if it's interesting to look at, it's a nice bonus.
>>46734447Actually in only ERP i was everyone was dressed more or less modestly, more suggesting than outright shoving boobs or dong in your face. Though it was a martial arts campaign with a big focus on clothing damage, suggestion was the entire point.
>>46735295
>Make Andoran Great Again
>>46734324
Depends on the system, setting, and character.
For example, Anima: Beyond Fantasy usually involves either super-intricately detailed clothes, or next to no clothes, with very little middle ground. Though the most mundane looking sword is the one guaran-damn-teed to wreck your shit sideways.
In D&D, You'll get a more variable dress code, usually more dependent on the character themselves than anything. The Chaotic Neutral Drow Bard, for example, might favor a tracksuit and flat-cap, while the Chaotic Neutral Half-Elf Sorcerer wears a Toga(with a banana hammock underneath).
>>46734324
A lot of my characters were gasmasks for some reason. Not to mention heavy coats.
Generally, practicality over everything.
>>46734324
There are no banks, and paper money is viewed as worthless, so everyone (NPC's, party characters) wear all their worldly wealth on them all the time. This means that rich knights will often fight with gilded steel plate with dozens of golden chains wrapped around them. It's renaissance-style clothing designed by Mr. T.
>>46741337
This is actually pretty practical. Its easier to keep and maintain arms and armor with you than it is to try and keep easily stolen/ripped burlap bags to hold money and gems. I might copy this idea for the next character I make.
>>46734324
However I imagine they do, no matter what those other nerds at the table say
Whatever fits them, depending on their race and class and the setting. Typically nothing very high budget.
My female characters tend to wear male clothes though. It makes more sense for rugged adventuringand also magical realm
>>46734324
However I personally feel looks distinctive, taking into account their profession, era, the character's own tastes, and the overall tone and realism of the setting.
>>46734324
I'm currently playing two characters. A kobold barbarian who doesn't wear a shirt and dress pants, because he's the mafia, and a half-orc paladin who basically lives in his armor. Outside of that, he's a street rat, and wears pretty raggy peasant clothes.
>>46734324
All my characters are self inserts or G-Men, So it's either a Suit, a Uniform, or anything swagtacular.
I've played a Skyclad Witch who only wore a large, heavy robe lined with pockets to hold everything, and only when she was in civilisation at that.
An Adonis of a man who only had a loin cloth and a toga.
A Ninja who wore one of those short-skirted kimonos that ended just a few centimetres lower then indecent. Though she had more conservative clothing for when she wasn't on the job and eventually moved onto a full catsuit.
She was inspired off Kurenai from Red Ninja.
A complete nudist from a Not-Polynesia nudist nation who only had jewellery and bags.
Though she quickly adapted to clothing when she left her home. at first it was simple sarongs but it got more and more conservative then concealing, the further abroad she went. Mostly to help disguise herself as her people were viewed as nothing but slaves, pets and even game by most others.
To be fair though, the whole party was from the same nation so we were all nudists together.
Drow Assassin in what is considered regular Drow lady attire. Though she's invested in hooded capes a lot since coming to the surface for protection from the elements and xenophobic people.
Sexy police officer in miniskirts.
A hospital patient in a Horror home-brew who spends most her time naked under a hospital gown.
I've also played about as many characters again, conservatively dressed from the word go.
I just like playing sexy, half-naked people.
Like a slut. I like sluts.
>>46734580
>pikachu's armor
>practical
It looks rad as fuck, but let's not pretend, that it is even remotely practical.
Raf Simons Rick Owens Usually What I'm Dressed In
I'm not sure how titan crews dress so lets just say that it's not particularly important.
>>46748024
why is /fa/ in /tg/
>>46747812
Hence the "stylized"
Basically the threshold is "if hitting that looks like it world hurt less, then you're good"
>>46748315
because /fa//tg/uys
Dont pretend this isnt true.
Depends on the setting.
The tramp freighter crew in Traveller isn't going to dress the same as the group of wandering adventurers in the setting based on 17th century Europe.
>>46742391
>tfw every group / fantasy setting assumes egalitarianism
I'll never be able to properly scratch my itch of playing a lady who dresses up like a man to join the army.
>>46748411
Are you fellows familiar with the term 'sub-genre'?
>>46748483
>I'll never be able to properly scratch my itch of playing a lady who dresses up like a man to join the army.
That's just a question of setting. Have you considered A Song of Ice and Fire RPG?
>>46752308
... actually, occurs to me that this image is way more appropriate.
Character in highschool dresses in uniform
Character from desert city wears not much more than pants and a bra
Shadowrun character wears a suit or an armored hoodie.
It depends on the character and the setting I guess.
>>46752364
>Character from desert city wears not much more than pants and a bra
Hello sunburn
>>46752404It's Exalted, I am the one who causes sunburns
>>46734324
Depends entirely on the setting.
Current game is set in Innistrad, so big coats and pointy hats are the du jour look.
>>46752554
Innistrad is the /fa/ of MtG.
>>46752554
I keep hearing about more people playing in Innistrad. What has your party done so far Anon?
>>46748411
Nice VtMB Malkavian
>>46734324
As far as my current character and game goes, pic related is pretty close.
I have no idea what he wears when maille isn't an option, though.
>>46753500
But why does he wear the mail?
>>46735295
>>46754762
Why the fuck do you think he wears mail?
>>46754762
Because it's a significant improvement over not wearing any armor.
Why do you ask?
>>46735295
>mfw I had a character who was psuedo /pol/ and who disliked none core races
>He was a cleric of Gorum, and specifically enjoyed using what he had to fix problems without paying a cent.
>I had a backstory all set, how he had his family stripped from him by orcs
>was taken into a orphanage, learned about the clergy through school yard fights that were over saw by a preist of Gorum.
> grew up with an orc freind, and learned to seperate the wheat from the chaff when it came to races
>Was going to have a big session with me single handedly convincing people I needed to avenge my family.
>ended because the DM wanted to use a model> He didnt even read the model
>>46753500
Where do you get figurines like that?
normal-ish clothes or dress armor; combat wear in all but the most animoo of games I run is built for practicality. Outside of combat people get the boobplates and single-shoulder guards and what have you. Bodysuits wherever I can get away with it. In modern settings, normal clothes.
Which is particularly interesting for some cyborgs in the most animoo game I run; they're nudists, on grounds of "my body is the most powerful weapon on earth so I better flaunt it". The third such cyborg is much less confident in herself, so she wears her usual PLA officer uniform over her skin.
Pic related, this is what one cyborg's "unclothed" state looks like.
>How do characters in your tabletop games usually dress?
Why should you care? You're never going to interact with them, and you're not going to get any inspiration for your own characters, so you have zero motive for.....oh, wait. That's right. You're one of those filthy faggots whom for reasons no sane man can comprehend really wants to post unrelated pictures on /tg/.
>>46734324
It varies from character to character, but I have a huge weakness for cloaks.
My current character is a old knight who wears a heavy cloak made from a bear pelt and it has things like various parts from different beasts he has encountered.
One of my older characters was the seventh son of a king of a fairly small kingdom, he was basically a bard and wore a cloak that was basically a tapestry that told the tale of his ancestor becoming king and establishing his kingdom.
The last common element has been that at some point all of my characters have come across an old silver ring with worn away engravings, it never has any magical effects but they keep it as a good luck charm.We've agreed that it's probably more of a bad luck charm, but it's a fun little tradition all the same.
>>46755167
No idea, I found it on google, and I liked the armor.
>>46754767
This is a nice doujin
>"my character dresses sensibly"
>he wears plate armor constantly and carries a massive shield with him everywhere
That shit isn't being dressed sensibly, it's akin to wearing tactical SWAT armor and carrying an MG everywhere. No one walks around with that shit unless they are going into battle.
>>46755426
For the sake of discussion you literal autist.
>>46756942
You do if you're playing Shadowrun or Cyberpunk 2020.
>>46756694
Totally. I'm not into lolidom but more stuff like that and I probably could be convinced.
>>46758426I wonder if you saved that from where I posted it...
5E Ravenloft, so sensible stuff because too obviously fan servicey clothing gets you lynched as a furriner/gypsy/witch/all of the above. Greatcoats, cloaks, knee high riding boots, shit that looks like normal travelers.
The tiefling wears a headscarf, the elves wear headbands, because they've been warned that most places are pretty much angry-mob-happy yokels.I'm a dick and making them start in one of the more cosmopolitan cities of the core, so the precautions are a bit less needed, I just want them to start on their toes
>>46754762
Mail-le. You've got to put the le at the end so they know you're a real armor expert.
I wear nothing. I'm a skeleton.
>>46760899
>Not forgoing your boney exterior and living as just a nervous system
>>46734324
Right now I'm playing a homebrew setting based off the Heavy Metal genre and such, so clothing is a typical blend of medieval and modern clothing, which various for each location.
Pic related is my character, a Glam Metal Dark Elf barbarian that currently wears very little. We just started the campaign so the party hasn't gotten much in the form of loot clothing wise. My character use to wear the traditional loincloth and fur leggings combo until he killed a Black (Metal) Knight and took his leather pants, which was the only thing that would fit.
>>46761271
This setting sounds hilarious.
>>46761504
It's been really fun so far and the refrences have been funny when we catch them.
To help you get an idea, My character hails from a place called the "Star-Whyte Highlands" of the Sunset continent, a strange, savage, and flashy land where mystical, colorful auroras paint the land a multitude of colors above running herds of Wyld Stallyns, man-eating unicorns with barbed metal horns.
I should mention that the leggings of my character had the glam classic zebra-print.
>>46735410
You that /u/ barbarian from other threads?
>>46761271
That sword is sick as shit.
>>46761829
Thank you, the character art I posted was something I asked for and got from our own DrawThreads. Pic-related is the refrence that I used for the great sword my character is holding.
Aside from playing exclusively females, I play a pretty wide variety of characters. I usually dress them as appropriate for the setting and their archetype. My chaste paladin won't always be wearing full plate armor and may appreciate a high quality dress in her down time. My post-apocalyptic biker will probably be clad in dirty cut-off jeans and a tattered tank top that leaves little to the imagination. In a military campaign, my mercenary will be dressed tactically with sensible and protective clothing and armor when she is in the field.
I love and appreciate lewdness, but I respect that there is a time and a place for it. I know that not everybody else will appreciate it as much as me so I definitely keep it wrangled when I'm playing with normies or when slutting around would not be appropriate to the theme of the party or the game.
Sometimes I hide my lewd underneath a facade of a legit character, or I may merely keep any lewdness buried in unimportant background fluff that may or may not coincide with my fetishes. That way it is not disruptive to the game, but I still can have my fun, albeit in private and kept mostly to myself. Ideally I think that is the best way to do it.
>>46734324
Some combination of a chestplate piece and robes, or bastardised infantry uniforms if the setting allows it. Exceptions for more grounded campaigns where of course I'm taking chain mail/other protective if it's given to me.
The less armour the better, that's what magic/enchanting/mecha are for.
>>46756942
>it's akin to wearing tactical SWAT armor and carrying an MG everywhere
You mean you're not supposed to do that?
No wonder I get weird looks in public.
I wear armor you fag
>>46756942
Pretty much. I basically let characters get more starting cash in D&D just so they have a lighter traveling armor than whatever is the default for some classes, and at least a nag to carry the heavy bullshit.
>>46734324
As a player, my characters wear clothing and/or armour appropriate for the time period and their profession. I eschew flashy outfits for practical ones, and my female characters almost always wear pants and not skirts. More or less, I consider what a sane person in their position would wear if they wanted comfort, utility, and protection as their chief concerns (and in that order, usually).
As a GM, my NPCs tend to have similarly practical outfits but with unique stylings or motifs if they're intended to be recurring characters. One nobleman NPC, for example, always wore a dark green piece of clothing, be it an undershirt, a tie to compliment a black suit, or a vest while walking the city streets. A thief NPC always wore a cloak of some kind, ranging from a long black one while prowling to a shorter one, reaching only to the small of his back, as an accessory to a fancy dancing outfit. I felt like these small motifs kept the NPCs interesting without going all Final Fantasy with their character design.
The other players in my games almost exclusively describe their characters as wearing the most impractical, gaudy outfits possible. Basically, they might as well be walking around shirtless with pants made exclusively out of belt-buckles and wearing a red fedora. The downside is that they're so obviously 'adventurers'read: insane murderhobos with no fashion sensebut the upside is that it makes it much easier for my characters to fade into crowds of ordinary citizens in order to avoid encounters, and my characters are very rarely attacked first in combat. I mean, why attack the guy who looks like a shopkeeper when he's standing next to Squall Leonhart, Laharl, and Alucard?
My GM for Shadowrun right now is a fashion designer so he puts a lot of emphasis on the way we have our characters dress.
I really enjoy it because he always explains why someone would notice and care what we're wearing and leaves clues to what we should be wearing.Every PC has spent over 10k Nuyen on their wardrobe with the face spending over 25k
Across a variety of systems and settings "leather armour" seems to pop up a lot. It's usually the cheapest practical option for the PC who avoids the frontlines.
>>46765505
Apart from the GM actually being a fashion designer as a "real" job, that's pretty cool.
>>46763626
Good taste,
>>46765674
I kinda generalized what he does, he describes what he does as just pattern making or just being a "glorified tailor."
And yeah, it's really cool because the logic he's applying to the game is the same logic you would find in real life
>>46755426
My God, I can actually TASTE the Autism.
Btw pic related. I wear practical armor.Thats my fetish
>>46754762
He's a big target
depends on the type of armor & setting
for example in a traditional fantasy setting with a heavy armor character i go for a something like pic related or something practical & simplistic/minimalist/basic
>>46765530
It's not entirely ahistorical, there were a lot of leather armors around. But they weren't cheap, the real cheap armor was extremely thick clothing. Leather was usually a bit more expensive.
A buff coat was about half the price of a breastplate.
