Dress Up
I like to dress up. I like to wear fancy cloths when going on dates or to important dinners. I like putting on costumes. I'm a little sad I don't dress up for Purim anymore.
Dressing up for me is like roleplaying: I do it to get into character. Like on stage. Or a job interview. Roleplaying, however, is not like dress up. I'm not someone else; I'm me, playing the game. I don't see a reason to hide what I do. And I don't need fetishes to help me with that.
Saw an episode of Sarah Silverman's show tonight. Sarah has two fat, somewhat hairy, gay friends who never kiss or hug or anything, bit who apparently bite pillows. One of whom, plays D&D. When his party came to play, each was dressed up more horribly then the last: when was wearing a "horned helmet" and some sort of leather thing; another dressed in a brown-green robin-hood costume, and finally came the wizard: expensive robe, weird twisted staff, and a ridiculous pointy hat with embroidered silver stars. It was disgusting.
Why do they do that? Why do they come to conventions like that, and play D&D like that? Does it give them strength? A boost to their personality? I don't feel anything towards these people: I don't hate them, or pity them. I think they're silly, but not more then people who dress in leather, or pierce themselves, or go to Rocky dressed as whores. What annoys me most is the automatic assumption people make when watching them: that this is how we play. How everyone plays. I wish that wouldn't happen.
Dressing up for me is like roleplaying: I do it to get into character. Like on stage. Or a job interview. Roleplaying, however, is not like dress up. I'm not someone else; I'm me, playing the game. I don't see a reason to hide what I do. And I don't need fetishes to help me with that.
Saw an episode of Sarah Silverman's show tonight. Sarah has two fat, somewhat hairy, gay friends who never kiss or hug or anything, bit who apparently bite pillows. One of whom, plays D&D. When his party came to play, each was dressed up more horribly then the last: when was wearing a "horned helmet" and some sort of leather thing; another dressed in a brown-green robin-hood costume, and finally came the wizard: expensive robe, weird twisted staff, and a ridiculous pointy hat with embroidered silver stars. It was disgusting.
Why do they do that? Why do they come to conventions like that, and play D&D like that? Does it give them strength? A boost to their personality? I don't feel anything towards these people: I don't hate them, or pity them. I think they're silly, but not more then people who dress in leather, or pierce themselves, or go to Rocky dressed as whores. What annoys me most is the automatic assumption people make when watching them: that this is how we play. How everyone plays. I wish that wouldn't happen.