Anyone else get in costume for their characters?

[newbDM]

This is my first time trying to do it (although I did get some little dagger like light-up lightsaber ripoffs at a dollar store as a "probe" for my alien in BESM...). I fear I am getting a bit too into this character...


Here is my character:

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Here is his original mini from 2007:

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And here is my loser self:

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The M.W. iron pot (the DM ruled it counted as a club) cost me $6.78, and around an hour to make.

Here is how I made the pot if anyone is interested:

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So, what have you guys done in the past? Got any images to share?

[Ponce]

What system is that character played in?

I think it would be neat to do this, but I think a Banite costume worthy of the dark tyrant himself would be hard to come by or make.

[FoE]

Ah! A LARPER!

*Grabs holy symbol*

Back, unclean thing!

[Captain Six]

I do nothing spectacular but I find it really helps immersion if I have a weapon similar to the one my character uses.

[ericgrau]

You mean you didn't just grab a pot from the kitchen and wear that? You built one?

[newbDM]

What system is that character played in?

I think it would be neat to do this, but I think a Banite costume worthy of the dark tyrant himself would be hard to come by or make.

3.5.

What is a Banite?

Ah! A LARPER!

*Grabs holy symbol*

Back, unclean thing!

Damn. Does this count as cosplaying!

I do nothing spectacular but I find it really helps immersion if I have a weapon similar to the one my character uses.

That is what originally inspired me to do this. I now need to figure out how to add the fire property.

You mean you didn't just grab a pot from the kitchen and wear that? You built one?

I tried that. They were all too small. I have an unusually shaped head (not just fat). I actually need glasses, but I went to five places and none had a frame that fit my freak head.

I hit up two dollar stores, and a Good Will trying to find one that fit. They had no pots. Walmart had no pots that fit, plus they were too expensive.

I got a few funny looks at Walmart...

[Tacoma]

Clever job! I ... would have used one of my existing pots. Or bought one at the dollar store :P

And what is with the aversion fads? LARP isn't my cup of tea but it's cool. I like LARPers.

That said, we do dress up for Halloween and do a scavenger hunt in costume. And there's party games, potluck food, some kind of scary story contest (this year it was a 55-word D&D scary story) and a horror style dungeon adventure.

So yeah. I guess we do. Just not all the time!

[Ponce]

The most LARPing I've ever seen was when a player took a nap on a couch after his character got knocked out.

A banite = worshiper of Bane.

[Stupendous_Man]

Ah! A LARPER!

*Grabs holy symbol*

Back, unclean thing!

Purge the Unclean!

[Kizara]

Yea, I don't think I could make this work...

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[newbDM]

Yea, I don't think I could make this work...

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1. Where did you get that amazing image!
2. You male or female? O.o

[Stupendous_Man]

Yea, I don't think I could make this work...

Don't believe in you who believes in yourself, but instead, believe in me who believes in you!

[newbDM]

Don't believe in you who believes in yourself, but instead, believe in me who believes in you!

True. You would be surprised at the types of guys who can pull that trick off. You'd never expect it.

[Kizara]

1. Where did you get that amazing image!
2. You male or female? O.o

1) My 7,200 pic collection. I believe that particular one is from a Lineage MMORPG promotion.

2) I'm a fairly red-blooded heterosexual male, and sometimes its fun to play out the 'other side' of my fantasy. After running so many female NPCs as a DM, I started playing them as full-fledged PCs and had some pretty solid success with it.

That being said, I would never play a gay character or cross-dress in real life.

[Yukitsu]

The wierdest thing I've worn in the past few years is the hat from Azumanga Daioh.

[newbDM]

1) My 7,200 pic collection. I believe that particular one is from a Lineage MMORPG promotion.

Thanks for the information!

2) I'm a fairly red-blooded heterosexual male, and sometimes its fun to play out the 'other side' of my fantasy. After running so many female NPCs as a DM, I started playing them as full-fledged PCs and had some pretty solid success with it.

That being said, I would never play a gay character or cross-dress in real life.

Just asking. Just like in MMOs, just because there is a male symbol under your avatar doesn't mean it is true.

[Stupendous_Man]

Meh, on teh internets, all the men are men, all the women are men, and all the kids are FBI agents.

[Tacoma]

Well that's a new one. I need to play a gay character.

Oh, you assume it's gonna be a Bard, right? Well that's the first thing I thought of too, so it's not happening.

Barbarian.

AAHAHAHA this is going to be good.

Anyway, as for not being able to dress as that, it's your own fault for choosing such an attractive character. Do you need to play more ... "natural" characters? Maybe a tall Dwarf with a scraggly beard? Or a slovenly Halfling?

I am sorry. I am sure you are beautiful. It is only my wisecracking that is ugly here.

[newbDM]

Meh, on teh internets, all the men are men, all the women are men, and all the kids are FBI agents.

So sadly true.

[Kizara]

Anyway, as for not being able to dress as that, it's your own fault for choosing such an attractive character. Do you need to play more ... "natural" characters? Maybe a tall Dwarf with a scraggly beard? Or a slovenly Halfling?

I am sorry. I am sure you are beautiful. It is only my wisecracking that is ugly here.

Well, if I had the material and weapons, I could probably easily protray my medivael ranger Baron character with some sun and exercise. He has a 16 charisma, keeps a bit unshaven, and unfortunately I don't really have a picture for him.

Still, its enough to RP, I don't feel the need to LARP. The closest thing I would do to LARPing is getting into actual combat, but people don't do that near where I live (Alberta, Canada) and I have too many other things going on in my life.

[BobVosh]

Well that's a new one. I need to play a gay character.

I once play Clarenthe. The gay necromanther. *imagine gay hand-flap thing, also the TH is a lisp* It was in a 2nd ed game named "the BS-Campaign."

Two Dwarven Ghetto Fighters made that game. They were brothers. The class actually said "they never forget thier roots." I think they should lose thier powers like a pally if they did.

Anyway, cosplay leads to larping. Larping leads to the dark side.

[Tengu_temp]

I'm not good at making costumes/props, I'm afraid. I tend to play online, too, so any effort at dressing up as the character would just be wasted. Not to mention that over 50% of my characters are female, and that'd just feel awkward.

[Thurbane]

Warning - once seen, this cannot be unseen! Fairly warned, be thee, says I!

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http://pixyland.org/peterpan/

[Adumbration]

Warning - once seen, this cannot be unseen! Fairly warned, be thee, says I!

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http://pixyland.org/peterpan/

GAAAH! I actually shouted that out loud when I saw it. Excuse me, I'm going to bleach my eyes now.

[Tengu_temp]

I assume that's Thurbane?

[Ravens_cry]

Warning - once seen, this cannot be unseen! Fairly warned, be thee, says I!

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http://pixyland.org/peterpan/

The curse does not work on me, I have already seen that, or something much like it. Your powers of evil are nothing to me!

[Mr.Bookworm]

Meh, on teh internets, all the men are men, all the women are men, and all the kids are FBI agents.

Holy ****, I'm an FBI agent?

When does my paycheck start coming in?

[Thurbane]

The curse does not work on me, I have already seen that, or something much like it. Your powers of evil are nothing to me!

Then, I must unleash the full horror!

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I assume that's Thurbane?

LOL - not quite: http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showt...62#post4707762

[Stupendous_Man]

Meh, chunky legs not my thing.

[elliott20]

Thurbane, I have seen this darkness that is the peter pan minister. (Yes, dude's a priest. you may joke at will)

And I have seen far worse. tempt me not to destroy your fragile mind with things of true terror, lets you gaze into the abyss itself and quake in eternal suffering!