Still not feeling the need for a little timing/admin-advantage subgame where the latest-hour commenters get the best hats.

Hooded.

With likely about half the hats in question to be assigned at random, and the Unique mechanic now on the table, I don’t see how such a game exists in this version.

Whether you’re aiming to be Unique or Trendy, it’s still better to choose your hat when you can see which hats a bunch of other wizards have chosen, than to choose one early and walk away.

per Kevan. Being able to change your move to match / avoid others is pretty important which puts a lot of advantage on replying late and being able to be the one that admins this

Pointy

If the issue is that it takes to long or is too much of a disadvantage to use the Attire spell, then let’s change that Spell to make it more advantageous, especially in light of “Dressed for Success” incentivizing having anything other than “None” for accessories.

Perhaps a more favorable way would be to have everyone tell the battle master what hat they want and then he can set all the hats once everyone has chosen, or at a certain deadline.