15-Minute Dragonlance Costumes
Attending a fantasy/gaming convention at the last minute, and wondering what to wear to demonstrate your love of Dragonlance and impress other convention attendees? No money to rent a costume? Don't worry—you really don't need to. Let Dragonlance Underground teach you how to construct a Dragonlance costume with a minimum of time, money, and effort.
THE GULLY DWARF COSTUME
1. Wear your worst rags and that T-shirt you were going to throw away.
2. Find a dumpster.
3. Dive and swim in it.
4. Find a rat, knock it unconscious, and wear it around your neck. (optional)
5. Go to the convention walking on your knees.
Total Cost: $0.00
Preparation Time: 5-15 Min.
Effort: Minimal (Moderate with Rat)
THE TINKER GNOME COSTUME
1. Put on your nerdiest clothing.
2. Rip pages from Physics/Electrical Engineering textbook and pin them randomly onto shirt.
3. Put on your dad's tool belt or workshop apron, empty the toolbox and place tools in all available pockets, making sure they stick out obtrusively.
4. Position your face at the tailpipe of your parked car and tell a friend to start the car and rev up the engine a few times.
5. Go to the convention walking on your knees.
(If something should go wrong with the Step 4 and you need medical attention, attend the convention right after that in your splints and bandages.)
Total Cost: $0.00
Preparation Time: 15 Min.
Effort: Minimal
KITIARA UTH MATAR
(Recommended: Black hair)
1. Purchase a package of blue construction paper
2. Cut construction paper into 3 inch circles. Cut circles in half.
3. Using hot glue or tape, attach half-circles to a blue tee-shirt and pants. Start from the bottom and layer like scales.
4. When you get bored, give up and try our alternative costume.
Cost: $5.00
Preparation Time: 15 mins or your attention span
Effort: Too Much Like Work
Alternative Costume
1. Attend the Con wearing black leather boots and nothing else.
(Note: Might be considered obscene and not recommended at "family" conventions, but should be fine for DRAGON*CON.)
Total Cost: $0.00-$10.00
Preparation Time: 0 Min.
Effort: Minimal
THEROS IRONFIELD
(Recommended: "Black" skin)
1. Wear street normal clothing.
2. Wear apron on top of clothing.
3. Find silver paint and cover right arm in it.
4. Attend convention as soon as paint dries.
Total Cost: $10.00
Preparation Time: 10 Min. (but give that paint a good 30-60 Min. to dry)
Effort: Moderate
LORD SOTH
Option One:
1. Go to convention with bucket over head.
Total Cost: $0.00
Preparation Time: 0 Min.
Effort: Minimal
Option Two:
1. Fasten a flower pot of African Violets to top of head with wire.
2. Attend convention, remembering to bring watering can if your costume should start drooping.
Total Cost: $10.00
Preparation Time: 15 Min.
Effort: Moderate
THE DRAGONLANCE FAN BOY COSTUME
1. Go as yourself, not neglecting to carry your complete Dragonlance book collection in a huge obvious stack in your arms, or in clear, transparent plastic bags.
Total Cost: $0.00
Preparation Time: 0 Min.
Effort: None
STEVE MILLER
1. Purchase 100 copies of The Odyssey of Gilthanas from local used bookstores.
2. Strip naked.
3. Attach all 100 copies of The Odyssey of Gilthanas to naked body using all available string, scotch-tape and masking tape.
3. Attend convention.
Total Cost: Variable, but hardly significant compared to the crowd appeal
Preparation Time: 15 Min.
Effort: Moderate
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