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Reagents, Recipes, and Enchantables.

I've been thinking about these, in connection with what TAS suggested about being able to select effects and my idea about a paint option for armor and boots and gloves, and well, I think it would be cool to have reagent recipes that allow you to go get the enchantable armor of your choice (as in the style of the armor, like for example, Tribal Armor), take it to whomever you have to take it to in order to get the color the way you want it (like maybe red and black or blue and silver, or whatever), and then take the reagent recipe, the necessary reagents, and the armor to the Enchantress/Enchanter, and have it enchanted so that it has the armor plus and other variables you would expect to get from the reagent recipe, but still look like what you selected based on style (Tribal Armor) and still be the color(s) you chose at the color-dealer (red and black, or blue and silver, or whatever), so you could have a "Robe of the Frozen North" that looks like red and black Tribal Armor (or a chainmail bikini).

On another note, headbands (as in Witness' Dark and Light Elves mod) would be a nice option for helmets, too. After all, what's the point of choosing a nice hairstyle and then not being able to see it because of the helmet? And like I said over on Siege Network a while back (and have repeated here, with the thing about illusion), just because it looks like a headband doesn't mean it can't have a decent AR.

I like Kathy's thread over on Herena Forge where she has pictures to show how androgynous (or even generically masculine) most of the better rated armor looks, and I agree that girls should look like girls, or what's the point of having a female character in the first place? And for those who might object on grounds of "realism" (in a Fantasy game?) that armor shouldn't look different on different characters, think illusion. Besides, if a Half Giant like Lothar can wear the same armor a Dwarf like Yoren just took off, and it fits him with no alterations having to be done, and no damage to the armor (or Lothar), then a female character should be able to expect to put on armor that fits her as well, in terms of not making her look like a guy.

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Giovanna