More duffle back options, please!

[biostem]

So I've taken to using the "money-duffle bag" in many of the costumes I create, because I like the strap across the chest, but also how it's a fairly generic piece, that doesn't shout "I'm tech" or "I'm magic", but kind of dislike all the cash spilling out.  It's fits some themes, sure, but I'd really love some variations of it;

 

1. Plain duffle, (no cash or anything else spilling out, for that matter).

 

2. Ordinance duffle, (have grenades, dynamite sticks, blocks of C4, mines, etc, in place of the cash).

 

3. Chem-duffle, (filled with various sealed vials, flasks, injectors, etc).

 

4. Arsenal duffle, (filled with some pistols, rifles, some daggers/knives, etc).

 

5. Gruesome-duffle, (might be too macabre - filled with random limbs).

 

6. First-aid duffle, (filled with various medical kits, injectors, etc).

 

7. Caught-while-changing duffle, (filled with some articles of clothing, hastily stuffed into the bag).

 

8. Snack-duffle, (filled with donuts, beverage bottles & cans, random food packaging).

 

9. Arcane-duffle, (filled with bits of crystal, and some random artifacts).

 

10. Empty duffle, (a basic version of the duffle bag, opened, but visibly empty).

 

[Rudra]

Please note before I post my actual response that I am not against the OP. (Though the Vahzilok parts duffel may be too macabre as stated. That is tempered with the Wicker Basket 2 costume item's dangling arm.) More options is a good thing and the OP has my support. Now on to my actual post.

 

While you wait for the possible additions, you may try using the method I use for the same thing. I use a re-colored school backpack as my adventurer's backpack or my soldier's field pack. For the strap(s), I use either Bandolier 1 or 3, Ring Strap, or Resistance Strap. (If I'm going for an armored adventurer/soldier style look, then I simply use an armor chest detail with the backpack forming the back.)

 

(Edit: If you use a black or dark grey on the bandoliers, the bullets partially sort of disappear, giving the bandolier more of a ribbed or studded band across the chest look.)

 

Edited Thursday at 04:17 AM by Rudra

[biostem]

27 minutes ago, Rudra said:

I use a re-colored school backpack as my adventurer's backpack or my soldier's field pack. For the strap(s), I use either Bandolier 1 or 3, Ring Strap, or Resistance Strap.

Those aren't bad suggestions, and I have used something similar in the past, but I still find the school backpack to sit weirdly on the character's back, and it isn't the same kind of "casually slung over one's shoulder" look that I sometimes am going for, but I appreciate the input!

 

Edit:  Now that I think about it, do we have 2 vertical straps like a proper backpack should/would have, as a chest detail option?  I don't recall seeing any...

Edited Thursday at 04:27 AM by biostem

[kelika2]

we need more backpacks in general.  theres only so much pretending i can do with huge male with max sliders and a school backpack

[biostem]

I think I came across another one that kind of works...

 

With optional surprise!

[MTeague]

My non-super Thugs/Traps MM uses a "school backpack", mild headcanon for lugging around all the devices they setup everywhere. Honestly, it's not big enough for most of them... I mean, just look at the size of the FF generator and the Triage Beacon...  so you kinda have to assume some degree of miniturization tech going on. 

 

Same way my non-supers typically wear some kind of flak jacket looking thing that.... wouldn't be enough for most of what they fight lol. Lost Swordsmen using a sword 8 feet tall? No that hits you you're just dead. But gameplay concessions and flavor, and as long as it's fun, I shouldn't overthink things the way I always do....

[TheMoneyMaker]

I'd like to see some more compact backpack options made available, like what the Knives of Artemis have or the explosive pack on embalmed Vahzilok, and also the sack of explosives that the arsonist Thugs pet has.