"Who wears HATS playing wargames???" Topic

Wargame HATS -- Games are more fun with HATS… These are photos I took from various games over the last…. maybe 20 years. Lots of fun. I'm sure serous gamemasters may object -- but this is fun.

HERE is the full collection
link
and here are a few photos

I have worn hats. Once wore a pith helmet for a colonial game, and a maroon beret for Plemsole bridge fight. Adds a touch of elan to the fray.

Nice!

I've been known to, but only if the hat is silly….

Never, and I'd seriously consider opting out of any game where the GM insisted on it.

Not I.

Rarely, but if it floats your boat, go for it!

All my games are inside, thus hats are not appropriate.

Reminds me of the old joke: "How do you find a bald man in a porn movie; he's the one with the hat on!"

I would not rule it out, as long as I was not required to wear it for the full game. Perhaps just for the pregame briefing.

"Every Hat should serve a purpose"

Yes the hat would be suitable at the gaming table, if the situation warranted.
However:
Not indoors,
Removed when speaking to a lady or showing respect to another,
Perhaps removed when dancing,
Not at a funeral but worn at the grave site, and
Removed when the Regimental Colour Party marches past (dressed in civilian attire), and in the Mess with the chaps!

As a long term hat wearer one does not feel dressed without a hat…
Feel free to pop the old Slouch Hat, Bush Hat, Kepi, or Black Beret if required!

Regards Allan

Nope. No way. Not going to happen.

Bob Beattie

HG Wells

I love hats, and yes I will wear them while gaming, and, quelle horreur, even indoors. (You don't remove a hat indoors because it's polite; you remove it because you no longer need it to shield your head. The idea that this was polite is a notion grafted onto a logical practicality.)
At a con, I will wear a hat the entire time I am there for the simple reason that I have worn the hat to the con and once I am inside there is no place to check it. So only my head it stays.
You want me to take it off, create a hat and coat check.

In any case, a gaming table is a perfect excuse for silliness, and at gaming tables I have worn:
A brown fedora
A home-made tricorne (as a pirate hat)
A fez
A costume aviator's cap (with goggles)
A black fedora
A Mickey Mouse-eared R2D2 beanie
A top hat
A white straw fedora ("aka a Panama hat")
A brown baseball cap with Doc Holliday's image and the title "The Gunfight at the OK Corral" (because he's my cousin, and it was a Wild West game).
A wizard's pointy hat (actually, the hat from The Sorcerer's Apprentice sequence in Fantasia).

And I'd happily wear other hats, if I had ‘em.

I often wear hats, I sometimes wear a complete uniform. Not m ch point having a room full of re enactment gear if it doesn't get worn. I also provide hats for other players, if they wish, but I'd never insist anyone wears one

I want a kepi blanc sooo bad…..!

Only the cap I normally wear, although I considered it for fun. Get in the spirit sort of thing.

I go by what I was taught: Gentlemen do not wear hats indoors. Only time I would do that was with the Knights of Columbus Color Corp.

Had a GM dress up for a few games, sometimes including a hat/helmet. Makes it really easy to tell who's running the game for new folks at a con.

I considered providing hats for a pirate game I ran, but decided not to. Probably a good choice since no one wanted to play the game I set up.

Grreat comments. In my games hats are never mandatory. Just part of the fun. In my Retro Rocket game I provide Tee shirts for Ming and Flash --

I tried to get into that game, but alas, it was full up. I'd have worn a hat- and the t-shirt. And sung "Flash! Aahaaaaah!" repeatedly.

Love the Mustang Ecoburst…

Hats are good too..

I wear hats.

I wear them indoors if it's culturally appropriate, like at a game convention, synagogue, or mosque, or situationally appropriate, like at the office in the middle of summer or at a game convention, or sometimes if I just feel like it.

If I'm wearing a hat at a convention game, it's most likely because it's the hat I was wearing to the convention that day. I have a crew member's hat from the USS Nostromo, a Federal Security Agency hat from Outland, a beret with the sunburst of the Third Imperium, and several other hats that mostly get worn at conventions.

Me now

Yet if you see any movie of Napoleonic era hats are worn almost all the time in or out. Don't think it's just the director, look at paintings of the period.

Yes, have worn a variety, with over 50 unique types in my closet.

I mean, if you're not having fun, why bother in first place?

Or, to put it another way, "All REAL Amuracans wear HATS!"

TVAG

UNGCC beret when running Godzilla games.

Actually, a full UNGCC flight suit cosplay, this was Anime Boston!

Nice! You almost have to wear one for any "Pirate" gaming…I know we do here…

P.

Historical hats are great.
I have some ACW hats (easy to wear), Sombrero (difficult in close confines), Pirate tricornes (can be comfortable ), Viking helmets (usually uncomfortable plastic) , French Kepi (very impressive) and cossack hat (too hot).

A lot of US players like wearing baseball hats which is fine but not a special historical hat effort.

In UK we tend not to wear hats when eating or indoors. Although I am sure some do?

martin

One of my sons related to me, around 7-10 years ago, that a friend asked him if he dressed up, in character, when he played D&D? He was shocked, and so was I. I've been playing D&D since 1980. I've never seen anyone "dress up" for a game, outside of a convention. The idea had never occurred to me, nor to my players, in 40+ years.

I've seen a few people wear period appropriate hats at ACW games, on rare occasions, only.

I played historical games with hardcore re-enactors, with full uniforms for the periods we gamed, but they never wore their period uniforms, or their hats, for our games. Cheers!

I was going to say "strange people"

But then I saw the pictures

Sgt Slag, This brings to mind one of my jobs from my ill spend youth. I worked as a DJ on a NW Pennsylvania radio station. One of my follow DJ (whose radio name was Dan E. Presley) would come in to work and change into a silver shirt for his show. Remember this was radio!

20thmaine: LOL!

I have nothing against hats. I wear Fedoras throughout the warm months, year after year, since around 1995. I just don't dress up for any type of game. Cheers!

I have a small selection which I wear if appropriate. Just received a "Zulu" pith helmet for Christmas ( a long-time secret desire) so… looks like colonial or African game is in the works!

Indeed, a hat rarely leaves my head, so playing games with a hat on is entirely natural. The fact that the game almost never has any relation to the farm implement company that usually adorns my hat is irrelevant.

Back in high school my friends and I gathered for a very early overnight D&D game (I was the DM). It was Halloween, and my friend's house was in walking distance (about a half a mile or less). So I decked myself up as Gandalf the White (complete with glowing sword— a glow in the dark plastic "space sword". I walked through the neighborhood in my garb (made out of a white sheet). I started the game wearing it, too, but it was uncomfortably warm (as I had normal clothes underneath it), so I ditched it some point. That was the first and last time I dressed up quite so thoroughly for a game of D&D. The comfort of ordinary clothes won out.

I've run Vikings vs Celts or Saxons & I had a plastic horned helmet that I wore occasionally.

Absolutely TRUE!! The hats make the game!

When I am running an event at a convention, I always try to wear a hat (it makes it easy for players to find the GM when they have a question or need a ruling) -- and when a rules query needs to be resolved, I decide what is to be done, assume my most pontifical pose, and pronounce my verdict "EX SUB PETASUM", speaking From Under the Hat, which means it is infallible and unquestionable.