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It's not fully translated, no. But from my understanding, you really won't notice unless you're worshipping the new god or in South Tyris, and since you have to finish all of the standard "story" for that first... it could be a while. You may as well hop in now, especially if you're starting over with a new character.

I see items like that here and there. With my luck, though, they're never of the type I'd use. I never use axes or stones on my characters, for example. I'd probably keep the stone for Performing, though. That invoke on it is a rare thing for me to see, though.

However, I have to agree that the RNG seems more open -- I had a "Search the remains" random event the other day that landed me a potion of descent. Now that's something I'd never seen in Elona before, despite hundreds of hours on 1.22. This event was also in a low-level dungeon.

A little off-topic, but my favorite item I'd ever found for a character was my Yerles Farmer finding a shotgun with "Invokes Draw Shadow (####)". Hence I'd shoot them from far away, which did little damage but drew them into melee range, and then BLAM! It was glorious. I don't think I even have that character anymore, sadly... I tended to start over with each new version, sometimes for fun and sometimes for compatibility reasons.

Yes, I agree Leo. I see no problem with an "I win" button. In fact I like so-called puzzle bosses, as long as they're not literally the only way to win. If they are there needs to be some ingame hints, because nobody likes getting stuck. Essentially I want to reward ingenuity in a boss fight, not just make it a bigger mob that takes longer to kill. In-character reasons for why things don't work are also good.

For instance, say you're playing some generic Final Fantasy game. You run into a boss that has respawning mooks. You use Stone on the boss, and surprisingly, it works... but then the mooks use a gold needle on him. Since they respawn and have infinite items, this is not a good way to kill the boss. But, used strategically, it could cause him to lose a turn, or at least, the mooks are too busy un-stoning him to attack you. So it becomes a plausible strategy without being an "I win" button.

Ah, you're right. It would help if there was clarification on whether Korbac meant colors of spells, elements like in MoM, or something else. Kind of my fault for dragging one back that's several months old, but I have no answers to any of the recent questions.

Most everything I wanted to say on the subject has been covered by the posts already here. Even though I rarely play spellcasters in games that are flexible. Well, pardon. I generally play "x class with a healing spell tacked on", except for the elder scrolls games where I throw in some other utility spells. I love having the options open, though, and one of these days I'll go back and play a pure spellcaster.

I guess the big thing is that having a million spells is great as long as you provide an in-game way to deal with the inevitable clutter. For example, even though it was basically undocumented and should have been explained in the tutorial, you can delete spells in Morrowind. Like Saturas, I often deleted the spells I was sure I didn't need anymore. Now, without getting into a flame war over which game is better, I will say that Oblivion removed some of my favorite spells, like levitation, while at the same time removing the ability to delete spells. At least, if memory serves. And even with less spells around, if you played a mage in Oblivion you would inevitably run into the issue of having spells you never wanted to use again cluttering up your spell list. Of course, most games in general don't let you remove spells because you "learn" them, instead of buying them. And it wouldn't make much sense to "forget" them. But even then, being able to hide them would be a godsend.

*shrug* I've used XNA before... it's fairly nice, but you run into brick walls if you want to do anything sophisticated (like import models that aren't .x format)...  It seems to cater to the Xbox Live Arcade right now, and while I wouldn't mind seeing it grow, it doesn't have enough library support.

It's been ages since I looked at coding in DirectX itself, but last I checked it looked like a nightmare to code in. I might give it another try sometime. But, I think Mono works okay for plain C#, and I found OpenTK which claims to be cross-platform and easier to work with than plain OpenGL. So I'm giving it a try.

W...wow. Coming upon this story a couple days ago, and reading through it, enthralled... was really something. Especially as I worried that it was dead, only to be reassured that it had started once again.  I've just now caught up, and I have to say, bravo. Your skills with the written word are amazing.

That being said, this seems almost like the grand climax of the story, although I doubt it would end so quickly. I can't say as I trust this guy, but... while backing away and generally siding with Anne, ask the figure how escaping the cycle would enable you to save everyone. It's in-character to ask such a thing, and as a reader, well, you just have to know. Even if it's likely that his words are deceitful.

There are some raw materials that you won't be able to sell in stores. Though I don't remember what they are at the moment. You should still never, ever discard something from the warehouse. If a store won't take it, list it on the B2B or export it. It will disappear eventually.