Wizard Clothes

[LordFowl]

This is an issue that I've been mulling over for quite some time, and while I've thought of many solutions, the one I propose is the simplest and cleanest to facilitate.

The primary mechanic of wizards is that they need special wizard clothes to cast many of their spells. Without their special clothes, they are severely nerfed.

However, this present a severe roleplay drawback, and that is that pretty much all of the wizard clothes are built with one specific purpose - to replicate the traditional medieval fantasy fireball flinging fanatic (say that four times fast). In my mind this severely hampers the roleplay a wizard can pull of because it is very distinct, meaning that the clothing and the wizard's roleplay doesn't really correspond unless they are roleplaying a fantasy wizard. The least offensive is the psi-robe, and thus it tends to be the most used.

My proposed fix:

Keep wizard clothes as a mechanic, but add the unique feature of them acting like changeling clothes (The type that traitors get). If they want to act as a fantasy wizard, good for them. Just set the specifics to match. If they want to try something else, set it as needed.

If necessary, it could also be made so that the clothes can only change in the wizard's tower (Much like how the spellbook works.)

This keeps the central mechanic of the wizard, but gives them more diversity in what they can roleplay as.

[Jboy2000000]

I like and dislike this, I like it because I love the idea of giving me clothing options to wizards, but at the same time it would give them access to all kinds of uniforms to blend in at first glance, and that feels cheaty to me, for some reason.

[Lady_of_Ravens]

I like it. Clothing options are always good, and it's not like wizards are anything like overpowered so a little extra disguise ability wouldn't hurt. However, if balance is a concern, chameleon robes could always be added to the list of magical artifacts you can get.

[LordFowl]

Wizards can't really blend in because they don't have IDs, which is a pretty big give-away.

[Jboy2000000]

Only if you you examine, you can't tell by just looking at them as they run by if they have an ID or not, even mousing over them to see their name might not be of help because people on station have weird ass names too.

[Killerhurtz]

I love this. Plus it opens so many roleplay possibilities - while the official lore is that wizards are a group with highly advanced tech, I've seen people roleplay so many different things, from a retired captain from the future trying to help Aurora by selling wares until he gets pissed off, to a lost wanderer, to a trickster demigod, to an unemployed ex-birthday-entertainer that got lost on the way to the bar because they tried teleporting there. With actual clothing, we could go beyond that and say that they're from different stations which focus on different kind of research, or from different worlds in the multiverse and the shuttle got lost during bluespace transfer, and so on.

I NEED THIS.