Well for me there's a point where TOO much realism takes the fun out of the game... I mean I like to play these games to get AWAY from reality
Eating I personally never liked, like in the ancient rogue or nethack - ALWAYS you had to think about food and I found it distracting my attention from the rest of the gameplay, I would give up if I didn't have a slow-digestion ring
Degrading armor reminds me too much of games like Diablo or Morrowind, I HATED getting items fixed constantly
The clothing idea I like, there's some funny scripting possibilities if you wear weird clothes, or no clothes [img]graemlins/hehe.gif[/img] and yes you might actually have some more use for charisma that way
- ahh, just my opinion -