D&D General How Do D&D Adventurers Dress?

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Conspicuous consumption is certainly a thing and keeping up with what's in fashion is something that might be important to some characters. I wonder how many players would want to keep up with such things. Lifestyle expenses covers "lodging, food, equipment maintenance, and other necessities," and I'd definitely argue clothing is a necessity. There's likely a difference between how someone looks who lives an Aristocratic lifestyle and one who lives a Modest one. But then a set of fine clothes costs 15 gold. Yowza.

An unskilled worker's salary is 2 sp a day. 15 gold is 150 sp, or 75 days worth of wage. Today's unskilled workers are probably much better off than their pseudo-medieval counterparts. And yet, even with a minimum daily wage of 88 pounds in the UK (based on 8 hours shifts), 75 days worth of wage is 6,600 pounds. Which is right in the price band for a bespoke suit at Henry Poole (starting at 6k) or Huntsman (starting 5.5k, but fancy clothes aren't made of just basic fabric...). Same equivalence in France with the minimum wage in relation to bespoke suits from Arnys, Cifonelli, Charvet or Camps de Luca, all starting around 5,500 €. So I don't have trouble envisionning a medieval fancy attire, which might include more costly or time-consuming elements to produce like lace when compared to a suit today, to cost this much.

 

[Maxperson]

It's not the blue-trenchcoat elf in the tavern that you need to worry about. It's this guy:

How many times do I have to tell you, just because he wants to marry your daughter does not make him a bad guy.

 

[Charlaquin]

Seasoned adventures would dress practically, knowing that staying alive was more important than looking good.

Most of the outfits you see in 3e and onward are ludicrously impractical. Especially all the buckles in 3e art, how long does it take to get dressed when you have 100 buckles? How long do you spend each night cleaning and oiling them to jeep them from rusting.

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I adore 3e’e excessive buckles. Yes it’s impractical and I couldn’t care less. It looks so cool and to me, so unmistakably D&D.

 

[Charlaquin]

“You meet in the bath house” would make a change from the tavern.

Oh, man, this sentence just unlocked a powerful need in me to run (or let’s be real, play in) an extremely gay D&D game.

 

[GMMichael]

How many times do I have to tell you, just because he wants to marry your daughter does not make him a bad guy.

I'll grant my blessing. Just as long as he doesn't toss dwarves.

 

[Charlaquin]

Arguably the most beloved character in Dragon Age is just such a dwarf.

Also traded the overplayed beard for glorious, glorious chest hair.

 

[Charlaquin]

Cool! I'll look into it. What is his name? My wife has Dragon AGE disks for the PS3, but I never played.

Varric Tethras. He’s unfortunately not in the first game, but I recommend playing them in order if you can. Of course, if you don’t have the means of doing so, any amount of Dragon Age is better than no Dragon Age. Best cRPG series of all time if you ask me.

 

[Charlaquin]

Dragon Age: Origins is so much better in a PC. You can usually find the ultimate edition fairly cheap.

Also true of DA2. And on PC you can use mods to freshen up the rather dated graphics. But Origins requires a patch to make it Large Address Aware if you want to run it on a modern PC, and even then you’ll be at high risk of crashing in Denerim. The GoG version has these compatibility fixes built in, so I recommend that if available.

Ok, I’ll shut up about Dragon Age now, sorry.