>I dislike the relationship with the Scions. I lived up to it.. but
>honestly, and even from a game mechanics standpoint.. Empire is
>really impudent without the kind of mages they are now lacking,
>most notable.. invokers. Ease the restrictions, please..

You say that like there are restrictions...

>at least
>until the ratio of goodies to evils is more in line. A perfect
>example is regearing.. hard enough to do with 10 goodies in your
>range, even harder, cause you just don't have the firepower to
>take down mobs with clothes. (IE: Lich in Barovia, etc..)

An invoker isn't going to make or break a fight with Xoltrindar. I've solo'd him with a few different characters (and seen others do it as well)

>I'm sure there is an arguement for adapting and overcoming
>somewhere in there, perhaps Nepenthe can give us a few
>examples on how to take down the afformentioned lich, with a
>kobold set of clothes and a practice dagger. But for the rest
>of us skilled and not so skilled players, well, it sucks and
>you just die trying.

I can also tell you, that even knowing how the prog works (since I wrote it) that bastard has killed me a couple times too

>Zulg: Well, what can I say. When you said what you did about
>me, I about fell out of my chair.. and there was no way I was
>going to stay quiet and take it.. so I ended up smited and
>plagued. Woe is me. Not sure how we were going to recover
>from that, even with the bug fix. About my only regret in
>deleting is not getting to find out where it would have all
>went.

Well, what I said was what I'd seen, apparently I didn't watch enough. I talked to a couple other people afterwards and they agreed with some of what I said and disagreed with some of it. I was making a point to pay attention to you more for the next talk. Yeah...the bug...damn that bug...and I wrote that code too! Right after our talk I went and dug through the logs and felt bad because you were right and had fixed it before you posted. I too was waiting to see how you'd handle it when you came back, but I guess we'll never know.

Good luck with the next.

So long, and thanks for all the fish!