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Lord of the Rings Online has a legendary item system, in which the item earns experience and unlocks/powerups "legacies" in the item, with a myriad of effects (usually increasing the effectiveness of class skills somehow).

Everquest also had items which take a portion of your experience. The items usually, at least back when I played and they were first implemented, just gain more and higher stats, although sometimes the final level will add a on-equip or on-use ability to the item.

But these are MMOs. LotRO can be free and is pretty solo-friendly, but also very grindy unless you want to shell out the ~$15 a month for VIP status. The grind would be in completing the various zone 'achievements' for Turbine points, which you'd need to unlock other zones for free-play. VIP get an allowance of Turbine points per month in addition access to a lot of content without the need to spend points.

Tornado was probably Terrible because his int was 0/negative, rather than starting at terrible and therefore causing miscasts (even though, as you note, air miscasts don't cause int loss). If you had a crystal ball I'd wager a bad run at that would do it, although you're likely to notice losing int just once let alone enough to get negative from 38. I'm also pretty sure I've had energy ball failures drain more than 7 int, though I don't know what it'd fall under in the stat drain entry. But you don't have one so it wasn't the case either way.

Naga Transmuter of Chei. Good idea? Bad idea?

Orcs are BOOOORRRING. Have some hydras! Wee!

But Trog is pretty indiscriminate about what you kill, versus TSO preferring you kill 'evil', or at least in the name of 'righteousness.' In the dungeon, where there are no innocents, Trog is probably chaotic at best (being not necessarily evil), but I doubt he'd be a functionally civilized religion on the surface. Some overzealous TSO worshippers could probably be called evil from an ethical standpoint ('righteously' killing whoever they view as evil), but the ideals would be for The Greater Good.

Have book spawns been adjusted (in the dev builds) or am I just unlucky? Level 12 mummy (of Ash), cleared about 15 levels of the dungeon and 6 levels of the lair and I have found 0 books.

Going to be a pain doing Orc for the guaranteed shops with only Shock and Lightning Bolt. Lacking books wouldn't be so bad if Meph Cloud hadn't been removed from the Book of Air (but I guess it was a balance problem or something, Meph Cloud is pretty OP no matter where you put it).

Fair point. I am not that interested in just adding more monsters, but I am interested in most everything else. More crafting, more blocks, that sort of stuff would be interesting.

IndustrialCraft adds more blocks, more crafting, and even an entirely new 'fluid/power' system with electrical energy (not really a fluid in the sense of a liquid like water, but it obeys its own somewhat complex rules based on the blocks you use). I believe Plasmacraft adds more crafing and blocks (centered mostly around some new liquid-like substances like acid) and plays nicely with Industrialcraft.

That's about the extent of my knowledge of MC mods.

I wouldn't mind seeing the ability for ghosts to possess their original corpse, creating some kind of super-zombie-undead. Sort of, having the strength and physical presence of a zombie, but requiring whatever special steps ghosts need to deal with it. If, for example, spectral undead can be fought only with silver, then you'll need a silver weapon to deal with this "zomghost" (or banish/calm the ghost portion via proper burial rites). Dismembering the zombie may still remove the physical part, but the spectral part will still exist and may still allow for physical activity.

Perhaps this could also allow for things like floating heads/skulls, headless corpses?