Request: More Costume Options

bardaaron

I believe this has, in some form or another, probably been requested more than once before, but I would really like to see some more options when it comes to costumes. My focus when it comes to costume requests is twofold:

• Sensible armor for women--All of the female armors leave large open midriffs and gaps in their protection that are, to be perfectly frank, stupid from a defense standpoint. I am not advocating that the current armors should be removed, but I would like to have some women whose armor actually covers their vital organs, and is not sexualized, like it female armor tends to be in this game, and so many MMOs. As it stands, I can non-sexualize by adding a shirt, but it's still not sensible.
• Pre-gen features piecemeal--Bandit vests, for instance, chain shirts, cutthroat bandanas, and the kind of doublets, dresses, and non-combat costume pieces we see on so many NPCs. This would also entail giving us some control over colors, so that we could have some NPCs with custom costumes that are not combat gear. Specifically chain shirts (in the "shirt" slot--and I know a number of NPC costumes have this) would also solve the above issue, by allowing my warrior-women to have chain mail on the vital areas the "armor" pieces otherwise leave exposed.

This forms the brunt of my request. I could be pretty happy with these additions. Even just the second one would be very helpful. Though I would also like to see some simpler options available than the very elaborate costumes, in some cases. Sometimes all I want is a tabard over chainmail (that isn't the Neverwinter Guard).

grimah

I would also like to add to this. because it fits this topic well

give use the option to TURN OFF battlecrys from encounters. I want to make the player fight guards or paladins/humans for example but "for the nashers" or "for lloth!" just breaks immersion and deters me from doing it. This would allow a HUGE amount of customisation when it comes to costumes and using different encounters.

bardaaron

grimah wrote: »

I would also like to add to this. because it fits this topic well

give use the option to TURN OFF battlecrys from encounters. I want to make the player fight guards or paladins/humans for example but "for the nashers" or "for lloth!" just breaks immersion and deters me from doing it. This would allow a HUGE amount of customisation when it comes to costumes and using different encounters.

Going off of this, it would be cool if we could assign particular battlecries (including the ability to turn them off as mentioned above) so that we could choose one that is appropriate to what we are costuming them to be, if we so choose.

silverdove

I hope they listen to your first suggestions or have an option to make female armors look more realistic.

reiwulf

I really want more armor options, we still don't have any HR armor, and now we will have a SW and probably won't get their armor as options either.

angrysprite

I so badly need more "Commoner" and "Noble" outfits and also perhaps a little something between, like say "Neverwinter MIDDLE CLASS"? LOL

I need to create CIVILIANS to populate my burgs. A village looks so darned silly filled with uniformed adventurer types and with only three or four "commoner" outfits - and really only two styles (striped shirt or simple shirt) - it's really tedious changing colors all over the place with no style variation.

It's as though there is no such thing as a seamstress or clothiers on all of Faerun.
I always knew "Krynn" was the better universe (Sorry, but Dragonlance for the win! And my Dragonborn will really be a Draconian, thank you very much). Pffft.

Best oxymoronic rule in D&D:

There are also noble draconians, which are formed from the eggs of evil dragons, and have a good alignment.

~LAUGHS~

Sorry, last part off-topic. It's okay to flame me.

bardaaron

angrysprite wrote: »

I so badly need more "Commoner" and "Noble" outfits and also perhaps a little something between, like say "Neverwinter MIDDLE CLASS"? LOL

I need to create CIVILIANS to populate my burgs. A village looks so darned silly filled with uniformed adventurer types and with only three or four "commoner" outfits - and really only two styles (striped shirt or simple shirt) - it's really tedious changing colors all over the place with no style variation. .

reiwulf wrote: »

I really want more armor options, we still don't have any HR armor, and now we will have a SW and probably won't get their armor as options either.

Yes, this is what I'm talking about. It's true the HR armors alone would open up a lot more options, but as it is, if we want any of our townsfolk to not all be wearing differently-colored versions of the same shirt, stripes or solids being the only design variant, they have to pretty much be a carbon copy of some other NPC.

I was creating a group of sailors for my quest, but in order to get anyone to look at all like a sailor, I had to make pretty much everyone wear pirate tricorns or steal blackdagger cutthroat and Yargo company NPCs and only make tiny differences. I could give a couple basic TR armor, since that is close-enough to piratey that it could kind of fit. I don't believe in having identical people standing around.

bardaaron

Another thing I would love to see is Kilts. Not the little pleated skirts, but the over-the-shoulder proper 'greatkilt.' However, since I have not seen anything even remotely like this in the official content, I'm not holding my breath.

eldarth

I would be happy to get some non-heroic clothing and armor. Just some old leather or slightly beat up scale or some patchwork pieces of plate that don't have gold filigree with embedded emeralds and such. Some variety to headgear/hats/masks would be nice as well.

bardaaron

Yes, some hats that aren't the floppy "Noble helmet" and aren't attached to a mask would be great. Maybe a straw hat for peasants, or a broad-brimmed hat. I'd love it if we got a turban as well, or a robin-hood-like woodman's cap, maybe a jester's hat, or a chainmail coif (without extra trimmings). A few of the cleric helmets incorporate the latter, but then have a bunch of other things on it. I'd just want the base chainmail textured hood. Maybe a Flemish-style pill hat.

It would also be great if we could get the hats and masks that come together as Trickster Rogue helmets individually (so JUST the mask without the hat, or just the hat without the mask). That too would open up a lot of possibilities, without (I think) requiring too much effort.

eldarth

Added to tracked Foundry Improvement Requests.

dragoness10

There's some of the special promo code key masks that could be put in as NPC only options, yeah? Ivy Mask comes to mind.

bardaaron

At one point, someone suggested adding Zen store items to the foundry, and including an advert for them at the end; giving authors more toys to play with in exchange for giving the Zen store free advertising. That would work for me, & sounds similar to what you suggest.

eldarth

bardaaron wrote: »

At one point, someone suggested adding Zen store items to the foundry, and including an advert for them at the end; giving authors more toys to play with in exchange for giving the Zen store free advertising. That would work for me, & sounds similar to what you suggest.

That'd be this....
12-11-2013 Request: Zen Store assets for Foundry "Product Placement"