Making a video game with a similar style to Darkest Dungeon and

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Making a video game with a similar style to Darkest Dungeon and I need your guys thoughts:

> Image Darkest Dungeon
> 1 member in a party, not 4
> Set in a crusade, knights going from the left of the map to the right, killing anything wielding magic
> The player can 'give in' to magic, not going to reveal this too much as I'm writing a story

Here's where I need some thoughts: I am making this moddable from the very beginning, however I'm at a bit of a crossroads.

I can allow players to script and animate custom 'abilities', but with this being a 2D game, the character will have to be set in stone so that artists can use my characterlist and animate abilities.

OR I can allow the creating and implementing of custom items and characters, that have their own sprites etc. This means that only a handful of base characters are made, but modders can make cool equipment and new player chars all together (NPCs will always be customisable, already implemented)

The thing is, if people can create new abilities and animate them, they cannot animate characters created by someone else without knowing it. I'm no artist, so I have no idea if there's a way around this with software, but for now I'm just using spritesheets etc and planning on overlaying armour over the top.

Is custom spellmaking (as mods, spellmaking is already in the game, as in, you mod in 'components' and join them together to make abilities and spells, modding just creates new components to add to the pallette) more important than customisation? From a gameplay perspective, I think this is appropriate, but I'm trying to step away from classes, which creates the problem of just having base characters and items set in stone from the get go.

Sorry for the long post. Pic unrelated, not showing the game off yet, hope you understand