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the part about bows being useful for hunting is a bit misleading, they're only useful if you don't like losing spears

hmm now that you bring gender into it, would a song or dance from a female bard have more/better effect on male party members, and vice versa?

this is a nice idea, pretty much all random eq isn't useful at all because either it's junk for highbies, or too hard to get for newbies if some of the random steel weapons came at good quality instead of always being poor then mob eq might be worth more than just loot, and actually be useable as eq...

the only thing i have to suggest is that artisans could build houses (log cabins) in the outworld which would stay permanently, or stay as long as "rent" for the them was paid up

not holding out much hope for the idea, but i'll throw it into the hat anyway

then you've posed a problem which has no solution etadan ;) you can't sacrifice, and the burning smell of meat would upset the animal, burying it doesn't seem to be enough because it's merely out of sight you seem pretty focused on keeping things realistic, yet the only solution to this problem on y...

saccing meat isn't really an option, if you're killing bears and alligators, these drop really heavy meat and lots of it, if you're not near vaerlon then the area is just really messy i had this idea of burning junk on the campfire, but there's so many ideas already submitted which haven't been look...

the pk switch idea could have a time limit, if you mark yourself as being able to pk, you can legally pk other pk'ers for 24 hours or so. and of course if you are marked as a pk'er, you can't issue somebody if you get killed yourself this way the people who want to pk can have their fun, and not bot...

most RL bards i know perform better after a couple of drinks, maybe this could be used somehow to help (or hinder if you drink too much) the concentration skill mentioned earlier