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[xXHalloweenTrixXx]

I think the people that call themselves RPers and fail all logic (like the armor - I'm a tanking girl with a bikini) are failing the RP and are more like DP - dream playing. Role playing requires you to actually inhabit the role.

As role play is more then just the story. Also to those single player games they purposely designed it so you equipped accessories and never armor - your strength for taking damage was always determined by accessories and the inner power.

In this game you use gear to inappropriately tank therefore the gear is important to the rp element. ITs not associate-able in the same way.

And you see right there is your problem :P. It seems you have an elitist mentality on how an RPer should be like. There are many kinds of roleplayers, and vanity system is actually helpful to some roleplayers in portraying the character they want to be seen as. As I said you want realism, but a rpg doesn't necessarily has to be realistic.

Also I've played many single player rpgs where armor can be equipped, so where are you getting your information from? We must be playing different single player RPG games. Maybe expand your library of RPG games?