How to design clothes for your D&D character
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Published 2021-05-05
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► INDEX
0:00 Intro
1:31 Enter World Anvil's costume challenge!
2:38 How to design clothes
3:54 #1: Story
5:39 #2: Aesthetic
7:32 #3: Utility
9:44 #4: History
11:19 How to bring your ideas to life
13:52 Outro
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All Comments (21)
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A fun little detail of my character is that he's a street-urchin-pickpocket-type, and his background gave him a tool proficiency. I decided to give him proficiency with weaver's tools, so his clothes are very practical street clothes, with a bunch of secret pockets and pouches, made from the finest silks and fabrics stolen from rich people's houses.
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Me, a historical clothing enthusiast: it is my time to shine
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Your character does not need a strength score of 14 to go shirtless.
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My character is a bard with a disfigured face. She wears a half mask to hide her face and wears showy performance type dresses to blend with her mask so that people assume it's part of her stage persona rather than hiding her half melted face.
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Ginny: What does your D&D character wear ? Me an artist who changes designs for his characters every day: YES
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My character for an upcoming campaign is a cleric whose goddess has a lot of bee symbolism. Medieval beekeepers basically wore baskets over their faces to protect themselves from the bees, so I decided all of my character's armor would all be woven out of wicker. It also really helped to brighten up her color palate when I was drawing her.
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When Kelsey said "a belt thats got a lot of trinkets on it" my mind instantly went "belt stuffed with bears"
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My character wears a human sized coat (they’re a goblin), a cooking pot full of random stuff on her head, and a whole bunch of dirt
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As a fashion designer, I feel validated. I legit designed an outfit for my fashionista bard, Stella, to fit her personality and the place she came from, and i have a pinterest board just for outfits to put on special occasions! Unfortunately the other players couldn't care less about clothing so they just think it's superficial girly nonsense, but I still gag everyone with my looks bc that's what Stella would do anyway...
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Lol "A rogue might not ever wear yellow." Hahaha that might 'Nott' be true.
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someone was recently mocking the effort I put into dressing my characters and the amount of time spent on their appearance and personality... THANK YOU FOR VINDICATING ME! XD
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"Thinking about your character's outfit can add layers to your role-playing." I see what you did there.
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My friends and I have just started a brand new campaign where all the characters woke up naked in a mud pit. Right now we are all wearing either potato sacs or scraps of mismatched clothes. I'll definitely be keeping these tips in mind when it comes time for my character to pick proper clothes.
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I literally got my D&D to let me buy a half size bag of holding just to hold my noble sorcerer's closet. He then face palmed when I showed him the list of pictures for each dress stuffed in the bag. 😁
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As a character designer, I super appreciate this video. When people send me the description "they wear leather armour" I must use every last brain cell to design yet another set of original leather armour. I loooove when I get detailed descriptions, especially when they describe the overall color pallet. Makes my job so much easier!
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Ginny: You can lose hours on online dollmakers. Me: Yes, this is information I am just learning right now and did not learn myself in any way, shape or form.
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My rogue wearing bright pink, but with a +19 to stealth. "Get on my level, honeybuns" Edit: For those asking, she's actually a Pathfinder character (an offshoot of 3.5e not 5e) so a +19 isn't actually that hard to achieve with a dex-based character.
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Ginny Di is def my comfort channel lol. No stress at all, and she has such a friendly vibe that makes me comfortable. I tend to click before I even think about it lmao
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Ginny: if you aren't sure how to answer that question, then today's video is for you Me: not only do I know the answer to all of those questions for my character, but I know for all of my party because I basically designed their outfits. But I'm going to watch this video anyway, because, y'know, Ginny.
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reminds me of how great the Cast of Critical Role has gotten at describing their out fits especially Laura Bailey. They do have the knowledge that artist and cosplayers will construct these outfits. thanks for the tips
