Antinomia: FF6

Yeah, locking his equipment could be a problem, since the game just checks a bit associated with the actor to lock it out; I don't know if that check can be tied to an event bit... I'd have to look in both the C2 and C3 banks to find out.  According to the battle RAM, it gets written to $6286-$6289 based on character party position, but the wiki page doesn't say what it's written from.  If we knew where it gets saved on the actor data, we could write a bit check against an event bit to clear it once Leo gets recruited.  That information must be somewhere since FF3USME edits it, but I don't have it on hand.

The alternative is to make sure that Leo's starting equipment is only usable by *his* actor profile, so that if a player removes it they can't benefit from tossing it on somebody else.  It still runs the risk of the player selling it, but you can discourage that with low GP values.

Either way, it's probably something you'd want to go back and do AFTER you finish your event editing.  Custom event calls are kind of a pain to work with, especially depending on how you are drafting and coding your events.  And if you can't get the equipment locking working the way you want, you don't want to have to revise the events a third time.

It's mostly because I have Leo's equipment set as his canon default equipment from the get-go, including his Offering, Crystal sword, and Aegis Shield, which I don't want the party having access to that early in the game.  And then from a plot perspective it makes no sense for him to have access to the party's inventory (though I can't stop him from accessing their item stash or spending their money ) since he's being played as a "B Plot" character who's separate from them up until the World of Ruin.  It would be nice if I could name him at his first introduction and have it stick across Actor data swaps, but I've already come up with an idea for the scene where he joins the party permanently, where he renounces his title of "General" and asks you to call him something else, to give a story reason why he's suddenly being renamed this late in the game.