Originally Posted by Sozz
How is a transmogrification system have anything to do with what your character would do?
I don't know, you'd have to ask the minds that imagined some kind of negative connection between controlling a character's appearance and the concept of roleplaying in a fumbled attempt to justify a need for control.

As a reminder, the sequence of events is I suggested an outfit system, like most RPGs made in the last decade, and then got a string of increasingly incoherent replies about the insult this would do to the lore behind Hide Armor's appearance, or how it might interfere with the NPC commentary on player equipment that doesn't exist, culminating in how this somehow meant I "have no interest in roleplaying in this setting". So you now asking me what transmog has to do with roleplaying is a little cartoonish.

If anything, allowing a separation between the player's concerns (stats, abilities, "player likes best AC score") and the character's concerns (appearance, "Drow supremacist likes Drow armor") would improve the latitude given to roleplaying. It certainly can't diminish it, once again being totally optional.

A better question might be how do you envision forcing a conflict between player interest and character interest to improve roleplaying?

Originally Posted by Sozz
It doesn't have anything to do with the setting, and where it might through illusion magic, magic has rules you'd have to abide by.
It doesn't need to have anything to do with the setting. We're talking about the player controlling the character's appearance in a video game menu, not a character having a spell to change their underwear with an accompanying five hour quest line for Withers to explain the lore of thongs to you.

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Look at that, Astarion is wearing a helmet, and receiving the stat bonus of that helmet...but it looks like he isn't. The visual and stat components of the item have been separated. What an outrage.

Can you imagine if some guy in Tajikistan had The Hairnet of Vecna equipped...and it didn't even show!? Personal roleplaying experience: DESTROYED. Totally disrespectful to the lore of "Leather Helmet" as well, not to mention all the various NPC comments* on Astarion's helmet that don't even make sense now. He didn't even use illusion magic, disgraceful.

*doesn't actually exist