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== Tabletop Games ==

** Similarily played with in ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]''. Wizard clothes run the gamut from traditional cloak and pointy hat to shamanistic feathers and headdressess to ''naked''. Chaos sorcerers, on the other hand can, and often do, wear full plate armor.

** Some AD&D2 materials mentioned that this outfit rarely is the first choice of people who work outdoors rather than in an iconic tower with high ceilings. So even if they don't hide their occupation, there are less pointy hats and more pouch belts.

** From 3rd Edition onward they've shied away from pointy hats in favor of a more [[Dungeon Punk]] look. Not even [[Forgotten Realms|Elminster]] wears a pointy hat anymore!

* Thankfully avoided in [[Mage: The Awakening]] and [[Mage: The Ascension]]. However, since both games reference [[The Invisibles]] in their source material... the new Robe and Wizard Hat is usually a trenchcoat and a punk haircut.

** For the sake of accuracy, it would be difficult for [[Mage: The Ascension]] to reference [[The Invisibles]] in its source material, since the game was written at least a year before the comic was - and the design/thematic elements of the game that led to a lack of robes and hats was in place right from the very first edition. That being said, it's interesting to note that both Mage and The Invisibles were later cited as sources the Wachowski Brothers were inspired by (or stole directly from) when writing [[The Matrix]].

* ''[[Shadowrun]]'' subverts this trope. Mages can wear body armor—just like anyone else—and fire a gun—just like anyone else. Provided that their stats are high enough to allow the armor (mmm, encumbrance) and skilled at firearms (mmm, defaulting).

* [[Iron Kingdoms|WARMACHINE]] mostly avoids this trope, as most warcasters prefer to go to battle wearing a full set of [[Steampunk|steam powered]] platemail. One's even fused to a [[Humongous Mecha]].

*** It's averted by the many pre-set spellcasting builds that include some form of armor training, then inverted by the many acrobatic/thiefly/monkly classes, for whom the high-enchant and low encumbrance of a robe and hat ensemble is more valuable.

* Melody, the bath house keeper from ''[[Rune Factory]]'' wears one, even though she doesn't know any magic.

** Sort of a [[Deconstructed Trope]] to many players and [[Game Master]]s, most agree that anyone telegraphing that they are [[Squishy Wizard|squishy]] by wearing this garb is guaranteed to be the first target of any intelligent creature in combat.

** And then Baldur's Gate rolled along and subverts it and provides Player Characters with ''no'' pointy hats to put on. But then still cameo's Elminster with one! Party mages have to settle for imposing looking hoods instead.

* Pretty much everyone wears some variation of a robe and pointy hat in the Spellcasting 101/201/301 series. In fact, depending on the game mode, {{spoiler|that's ALL the protagonist wears}}, which is used for comedic effect on a lot of occasions.

* ''[[Magicka]]'' depicts all wizards in hooded robes, and some may opt to wear a wizard hat instead. It also makes a [[Shout-Out]] to the [[Trope Namer]] in the name of the achievement for picking up all the spellbooks.

* In the ''Avernum'' games, wearing armor makes it impossible to cast higher level mage spells (unless the character has the Natural Mage trait) so they usually end up wearing robes.

* Worn by the title character in ''[[Soulcaster]]'' and ''Soulcaster II''.