Why don't wizards trade in there old robes for swank uniforms?

Because Comfy

Part of wearing a rope is declaring to the world you don't want to try. It's basically a step above sweat pants

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>>50633963
Why wear a uniform if you're not required to?

>>50633963

Because tolkien didn't do it, and if tolkien didn't do it, it is haram.

>>50633963
Why even wear both?

Nah, you're a fucking wizard. You wear whatever the fuck you want, though in practice robes are impractical because lengthy sleeves and hems catch on things. Tight leather tunic and breeches are usually best.

>>50633963
Cus they're broke

>>50633963
Robe color, trim, insignia, etc. can indicate rank.

>>50633963
Uniforms tend to come with institutions for them. If there is a Wizard Institution, there stands to reason there will be a uniform. However, the wizard uniform will more likely be the ceremonial robes that we have today if they're anything like a college or university. A wizard in military or law enforcement employ will likely wear the uniform of that institution, with a signifier denoting them as a wizard in some capacity.

>>50633963
Because wizards aren't some kind of organized, unified faction. They're individual people with powers. They'll dress however the heck they want.

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Completely agree.

This hooded robe meme needs to end.

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>>50633963
I think that wizard robes and hats are to magic what labcoats are to science.

Even in professions where they aren't needed, such as psychology or computer science, the labcoat is a powerful role accessory associated with science that tells laypeople what to expect. People see a white labcoat and assume (rightly or wrongly) that the person wearing it is smart, competent, uses proven scientific methods, and has spent years learning the science behind whatever they're talking about.

Maybe long ago magicians found some function in wearing robes, and still do in some fields of magic. But the public association between wizards and magic might be so strong that most magicians think it's too much work to try and change it.

Also, I think that long-coats can substitute for robes in many cases when colored and embellished properly, giving a similar general shape to the robe, but with better mobility and a more modern look.

>>50633963
Uniforms are uncomfortable.

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>>50634023
Now I want to play a Paulie Walnuts type wizard, maybe use a lot of Bigby's

>>50634251
I think that like lab coats most magical robes and hats are used to protect the user from the possible side effects of their own magic. What I thought the reason for robes was that you could imbue one object with a shit ton of runes reinforcing the fuck out of it so when you mix the magical version of boiling hydrocholric acid and boiling sodium hydroxide you don't end up with mana burns and scales on your feet.

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>>50634251
Agreed.
If you want people to take you seriously, you've got to wear the right clothes.

Wearing a uniform just makes you look like another soldier. Not a master of the mystic arts.

>>50634110
Being a Wizard cop or being in wizard military unit sound rad as fuck. Where can I enlist?

>>50634602
>Military Wizard Police
>It sounds like you've had a little to much scrying my lad, it's the polymorph cell for you sunshine

>>50634251
What kind of computer scientist (past the 70s) wears a labcoat?

>>50634746
Labcoat sounds comfy AF.

>>50634746
Actually you're right. I was thinking of the 70's for that particular example.

>>50634023
There was a wizard in a track suit in the Day Watch movie.

>wizard
>lives in a stone tower
>in blistery cold fantasy setting
>with no modern heating
Of course you wear thick huge robes.

>>50635013
I mean, sure, but like, why when you can make fire with your brain?

>>50633963
They do now! This is immediately going into my campaign.

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>>50634602
>tfw group doesn't want to play my high-fantasy SWAT campaign

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I've got good news.

My wizard wears a track suit and smokes/drinks heavily. What does that count as?

>>50634637
>Becoming a 1984 Mageocracy with Colleges replacing the Ministries

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>>50635138
Your good news reminded me of some old news

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>>50635207
Your old news is news to me.

>>50633963

Out of the various times I've played Wizards, I think only one of them actually wore robes.

Two of them were Spellswords, so they wore armor.

The other usually wore nice travel clothes, since big, flowy robes tended to get in the way while riding a horse.

>>50635082
i mean, do you run everywhere? because its faster than walking?
maybe wearing heavier clothes is less strenuous than maintaining a fire spell

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>uniform
>not classy suit
I tip my hat to you.

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>>50633963
Or you can be a Warlock from Destiny and have a swanky uniform that IS a robe as well as an armband that signifies rank/order/allegiance

>>50635400
I should really get around to watching Brotherhood.

>>50635400
Kimblee is way too swag, not even fair.

>>50635207
This looks based af

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>>50633963
Or they could all start dressing like this.

>>50635457
God, that game was beautiful.
Shame everything but the gunplay was pretty much shit.

>>50635132
Well they probably play D&D all the time anon

I'm dressed like I come from PE, you're dressed like you come from Church.

>>50634602
SWAT unit.

Special wizards and tactics.

>>50635713
>Special Wizard Assault Team

>>50635153
Does he also have a propensity for squatting?

>>50634023
That's a uniform for Russians, though.

>Select all tiles that match the description: Falcon
>It's a fucking hawk
Goddammit Google. One job.

>>50635558
It was pretty great while it lasted: soviet industrialised magic, telekinetic soldiers, airships with broadsides of sorceresses turning themselves into energy cannons
Even got a videogame and a d20 Modern splatbook

Sadly the comic's been on "hiatus" since 2008

>>50635764
But that's not Adidas.

>>50635731
Even better.
If all of swat is made of wizards.

>>50635598
Kamen wizard?

I don't follow the series, so do not know if want...

>>50635509
>Kimlee is too insane, not even fair
Fixed that for you mate

>>50635731
>>50635713

Special Operations Response Corps
Magic Association's Gendarmerie Especial

Had a wizard who was leader of a mercenary company once. The uniforms were simple, such as they were- a leather vest with pockets and pouches for spell components that had the company logo tooled into the back. Furthermore, every member of the company was required to carry an enchanted weapon they had made themself as part of uniform requirement.

>>50633963
Robes can be uniform.

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>>50633963
Because robes ARE swank you fucking muggle.

>>50633963
I don't know. To me, uniforms indicate someone who's part of a familiar establishment, and I prefer magic users to be something strange, mysterious, powerful and dangerous. I guess it works in settings where magic is an integral part to mainstream society, but i've never really been a fan of those. I feel like something's lost when you can stroll down to your local university-certified wizard to buy magic items.

>>50633963
Generally because wizards tend to lean towards being creative, and uniforms don't exactly channel that. I have been wanting to play a military magician lately though, a destroyer who follows orders.

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>>50635764

> Uniform for Slavs.

Keked.

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>>50636694
Historically, blacksmiths were considered powerful and mysterious and all that.

Setting rocks on fire in secrecy and twisting them into metal tools weirded people the hell out and smiths were considered pretty dang wizardly, yet you could walk over and buy tools any time

>>50635457
>the little bits of lore and backstory that you can create with your character appearence

>>50633963
I'd like a wizard that just looks like a regular dude until he starts casting.

>>50633963
Why does every adventurer feel the need to wear a hooded cloak wherever they go?

Why do barbarians prefer to be half naked?

Why do humans dress in such boring clothing all the time?

These questions need answering.

>>50636898
>Why does every adventurer feel the need to wear a hooded cloak wherever they go?
If you spend your life on the road and out in the elements, a hooded oilcloth cloak is pretty much mandatory for keeping dry, keeping warm, and keeping the sun off you.

>>50635132
If you actually wanna run this I'd sure as shit be down. That sounds awesome.

>>50636807
I never knew that, but that makes sense. Most of what doesn't appeal to me is the idea of sorcery as something ubiquitous and understood, but I guess that's still avoidable as a local artisan and vendor.

>>50634746
Perhaps an experimental one who works with sensitive materials, or a crazied hobbiest who makes his own silicon chips in his basement.

>>50635400
This show is actually the first thing I thought of when I thought of wizards in uniforms. Not Kimblee, but the State Alchemists. It made sense for them to wear a uniform as government employees, and those were pretty decent wizardy uniforms.

>>50636814
Explain.

>>50634187
>chain links stretch because of lazy animation

M A G I C

>>50636807
>St Dunstan's Bizarre Adventure

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>>50634023
Those are for slavic wizards only.

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>>50637096
>Perhaps an experimental one who works with sensitive materials

That'll take a clean room suit, as you barge into the physics lab.

>>50640898
Have fun with plate armour in games then.

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>>50641255
That pic reminded me of Alexia's Demons, that has scientists and wizards working together.
They do wear labcoats most of the time. Except when they need to get naked for a ritual.

>>50636005
Special Alchemical Service,...

the possbilities are endless

>>50636898
Hoods keep sun, rain, wind, snow, dust and more off of your head.

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Not pulling a Shocker and forming a secret wizard military. Mysterious uniformed men and women pop up and preform powerful supernatural feats and teleport away.

>Not join the Air-brigrade and swooping out of the sky to blitzkrieg the hell out of the enemy forces with Wind, Lightning, Fire, and Death spells?

>Not wanting to be a magical shocktrooper /tg/? This is so you anons.

>>50633963
Beard whiteness and length pretty much already signifies rank. Also robes double as housewear. Why should some loser in a tower dress up all spiffy if he doesn't want an audience?

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>>50635457

Don't forget that' it's also power armor with built in life support as well.

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>>50637583

Many of the different armor pieces and relics you can get have lore significance tied to them and to the type of character you have.

For instance, There is a relic for hunters called Shinobu's vow which ties to a story of a Hunter named Shinobu who, tied and out of ammo, swore to protect a group of people trying to migrate to the city during the early days of the Collapse and she and her group did so anyways even if they were damn near slaughtered by the Fallen for it.

Others such as the sashs worn by Titans will have symbols pertenate to them such as the Hexagon which symbolizes the Battle of Six Fronts, one of the biggest conflicts to face the city directly where 6 Titan orders stood and held the wall.

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>>50633963

A UNIform implies a sense of UNIty. It is a piece of clothing designed to create a sense of equality and sameness with others wearing the same uniform. It makes it so that when people look at you, they see the group you're a part of, just as much as or more than they see the individual. A uniform also generally implies submission to some sort of authority, that there exists someone from whom you will take orders.

Does any of that shit sound like something a wizard puts up with?

>>50642626
Depends on the context. People also wear uniforms to make themselves feel important and make quasi-military organizations to stroke their cocks.

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>>50633963
Because traditional wizard clothing is anti-anti-caster gear

>>50635331
This. Sure, a wizard /could/ spend the time each evening chanting and waving his hands about and summoning dire creatures from the netherworld to heat his rooms, or he could just put on his damn robe, which also has the added advantage of having lots of useful pockets.

>>50634350
I understood that reference

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>>50633963
Buy the new wizard collection by Hugo boss and purge the filthy kender in style.

>>50641295
Kabbalistic Grammarye Brigade

Federal Bureau of Invocations

Conjuration and Invocation Agency

>>50633994
This.

>>50634251
so kinda like a harry dresden situation?

>>50643433
Harry wears a robe in his lab because it's an unheated sub-basement, and a robe is the best way to keep warm.

On at least one occasion, he couldn't find his formal robe in time, and had to show up to a White Council meeting wearing his tatty, potion-stained bathrobe.

>>50641255
>>50642626
>>50641295

irl thats what '''wizards'''' do, uniforms enhance ritual and ceremony and increase authority and 'protective clothing' like veils gloves and masks is worn when doing black magic, some people dress up in whole costumes some wear suits some just wear overalls, but even when in robes the robes are usualy standardised and uniform based on some system of this or that, or completely generic, like large black cloaks and hoods

clothes are usualy a integral part of the magical act/ritual/ceremony/whatever, even being naked is usualy reffered to as somekind of symbolic ''robe''

its all 80% psychodrama any way

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>>50635764
Slavic wizards would wear uniform simillar to Harry Potter during Goblet of fire

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>>50643579

kinda like this

>>50643598
Are they going to crash the wedding by summoning a demon, or protecting the wedding from outside demonic forces?

>>50643641

they sure dont look like theyre up to any good

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>>50633963
Wizards have a uniform. Left to their own devices, you get pic related.

>>50644402
>Looking at pic
>Huh I never noticed that his shoes are geese
>Look up
>Always See Something New.jpg
Huh, neat-o.

>>50645008
they're penguins, actually

>>50645119
Huh, I could swear a moment ago they were geese. All this magic must be messing with my head.

>>50634746
The best kind.

>>50635457
Oh, you mean wearing an outfit that's so generic, you could easily be mistaken for a random soldier from any other modern sci-fi franchise?

>>50645008
I never noticed that he's sitting on a spider. Always figured it was a tree stump.

Now I'm wondering if someone is going back in an changing the picture every once in a while, then spreading it around to make sure it's the "official" version.

>>50634110
>stands to reason there will be a uniform
ID badge on a lanyard does most folk, armband,sash &/oe hat would be enough.
>>50636878
same but until the flying carpet takes off & she start blasting forceballs and lightening bolts from a pair wands that have been concealed up his sleeves/in his boot or belt.

Robes ARE their uniforms.

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>>50634602
Your nearest friendly family-owned Ares subsidiary.

>>50635773
Sauce?

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>>50645931
The Red Star, by Christian Gossett

>>50635773
>broadsides of sorceresses
Heh.

>>50640959
I always forget how off the walls Ukraine got during the overthrow.

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>>50646650
>tfw you will never clank this hard in your lifetime

>>50643641
Yes.

>>50636898
same reason I wear a hooded jacket: it is warm and keeps my clothes/hair from being soaked by rain/snow.
It can also obscure your face if needed or be used as a blanket or even to carry something in it.

It's really fucking useful.

>>50635764
You're supposed to just ignore everything in the image and hit verify then.

>>50642495
Or the lore behind exotics, like how you can wear the still-aware skull of a dead dragon faustian demon thing, or the Astrocyte Verse, which converts your head into Literally Cosmos.

>>50642556
Ah, you meant armor lore.

I thought you meant there was some lore significance behind various Character Creation options I was missing.

There probably still is, now that I think about it.

>>50645266
I wish Destiny's aesthetic was more mainstream, because then I wouldn't be stuck playing Destiny

>>50650036
Why would you need other exotics? You have everything you need right here, oh bearer mine.

>>50650204
But your claws are so much more useful than your skull, you worm god related fuck.

Nothing Manacles and Impossible Machines are the best tho

>>50650036

Or wearing the armor parts of Vex bodies with the warning that if you start to see some shit taken them off and pop some anti-hallucinagens

>>50650291
Or how the Vex armor made its wearer's heart stutter in an unknown code that I think he goes mad trying to decipher.

Or the armor that questions whether or not there was some otherspace between your former life and your life as a guardian that wants you back.

>>50633963
Because robes and beards symbolically link a magic user to the archetypal ideal of a magic user, thus making their spells resonate with even greater mysticism as they draw truths from supernal.
>t. awakened mage

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>>50650352

And then you have the Reef rounding up Taken in the Prison of Elders and finding methods to siphon and mass produce weapons and armor made from their energy.

>>50650408
Or conversely, the Taken energies seeping out and tainting the Awoken via their Prison of Elders.

Such is the nature of [Take]ing

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>>50633963
>Why don't wizards trade in there old robes for swank uniforms?

Because nothing says "Wizard" like a set of robes out in public. Also: Charisma is a dump stat so Wizzes can pump their intelligence. So of course they're going to be completely out of touch when it comes to fashion sense.

>>50633963
Because that'd imply
1. Caring
2. Caring
3. Caring
4. No balls free

When you command INFINITE COSMIC POWER nobody will laugh at your robe.

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I kinda like the idea of wizards in more urban wear.

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How about wizards in cammo?

>>50651092

>Apple's latest produce, the Icast
>Now with updated spellbook APIs for ritual casting on the go.

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>>50633963
>robes
>uniforms
Semantics, you philistine.

Both are garments of ceremony, a symbol that the occasion or person wearing the garment is somehow special. Symbolism is kind of a big deal in magical matters. Masks, costumes, it's all a way of training the mind to 'change' into a different person or thing when using magic. A military uniform does effectively the same thing, but typically represents physical prowess rather than mental or magical, and so is less symbolically significant.

>>50633963
Freeballing in a uniform just doesn't feel as good as a proper wizards robe.

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Uniforms designate organizations or factions.

If a wizard belongs to neither, they dress how they please- and robes are comfortable.

>>50635207
Can't find anything on the usual sites. Can you provide a link to the comic?

>>50642388
MIKADO!

WHY WON'T YOU BE MINE!?

>>50652458
http://theredstar.com/product-category/comics-and-graphic-novels/

Used to be you could read it online, legitimately, but that distributor has since downsized to a facebook news feed

>>50652619
Well that's disappointing

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>>50651092
Like this?

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>>50645650

This

>>50642388

I once ran a game that happened in the world of Harry Potter, but in the future.

The backstory was that at one point, a group of powerful wizards and brilliant scientist come together and combine magic and technology.

They quickly defeat muggle and wzards forces and they proceed to take it to the stars.

The main antagonist of the story was Harry Potter who is immortal.

>>50633963
Because they like a healthy breeze 'round their privates, thanks.

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>>50633963
Because elaborate robes have been associated with authority and scholarship, as well as the occult and sacred, since time immemorial.

Graduate from a university, at least a good one, and you'll be expected to wear robes for the graduation.

A very good university might expect you to have robes as an undergrad.

Be knighted in Britain and you're expected to get another robe.

When it comes time for the guy in the picture you posted to actually ascend the throne, he'll wear a robe, as he does on many other occasions already, and he'll fucking like it.

Plebe.

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Whole thread and nobody talks about pic related. Are these guys not wizards?

>>50633963
have you ever worn a robe? That shit is KOMFY AS FUCK, plus you can go kommando

>>50633963

Wizards indivisulists.

Thy just all have the same sense of style because 2/3 of them have 7 or lower chariama.

>>50661238
Try actually reading the thread, faglord. They've been mentioned multiple times.

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>>50651714
My wife, Lotte Yanson, is the cutest witch ever.

>>50633963
uniforms are overrated

>>50662740

Heresy

>>50663635
You're a heresy