[Sawrock]

I think this has been brought up, but. Having a visible equipment is bad for the game due to the 30% resist items, and enchantments such as Holy. If, for example, I see you're using an earth sword, I would equip an isespian charm, which in turn my foe would switch to no longer using an earth sword, etc, until the battle actually started with one of us not secretly switching out items in time. I wouldn't actually switch my items, mind (I believe in the one-loadout-per-character method), but I can see that scenario easily happening. With the holy example, I have a character who always has dual holy weapons equipped, even if not fighting a vampire. If a vampire character would look at my equipment, they could do two things that would be negative to roleplay: they could flee and make up a reason for such, since they OOCly know holy is a weakness, or they could accuse me of metagaming that they are a vampire, which I would not be, as I always have them equipped.