First off, I've never said my system would be set in stone. There would be all sorts of tweaks available in terms of what the criteria is to get a small reward. That would depend on the stats Zulg has available to him in terms of player numbers/average lifespan etc.

I don't think game-changing rewards should ever be given. That's why they are called "game-changing" heh. What would be awesome is if these types of rewards were tweaked so that they were not game-changing. Such as instead of getting barrier as a quest spell, why not just give them protection (for a shifter) or stoneskin (for an invoker) or giant strength/whatever (for an AP). All of those skills are very useful for those classes, and don't "break" the fun-stick for other players.

Why is it even necessary to give "game-changing" rewards in the first place? If every reward was cosmetic and low-end in power, I'm sure at first people would bitch but eventually it would create a system whereby each player had a chance to reach a certain power thresh-hold without having to worry about IMM involvement (let's just pretend ABS and the shifter lottery doesn't exist in this case). Therefore, you'd completely invalidate many of the arguments and vitriol that exist in CF currently. No longer would you have people complaining that RayBaer is killing CF, because her followers would have the same chances to get rewards that followers of Eshval would have.

As to your point about Immortals being reticet to give rewards, read Iunna's post. She basically illustrated what I think her and Thror have stated in the past about rewards and how they give them out.

Hope you get that memo done I've resigned myself to getting no sleep tonight and finishing my case study at 4am