How about this, and yes I'm crazy - everyone wants a full cabal change but how about a little change?

-Make resist based on level (good suggestion I heard elsewhere)

-Make deathblow based on # of opponents and protection (same, heard elsewhere)

-Make deathblow have the chance to know someone out of the room (if I got hit with an UNSPEAKABLE mace blow, I'm assuming it's on the chin and throwing me across the room)

-Give villagers the ability to NOT kill someone (aka, knock um down to 0hp) because as the best warriors of Thera, they should have the ability to also limit their strength. This would allow villagers to train and not kill each other, and to not kill opponents who they don't want to necessarily kill (they've killed um 4 times already) or for roleplaying purposes (make um listen to your rants). Ya killing is all nice, but I think giving them the ability to NOT kill would be useful in many aspects (and people like not dying).

-Have spell evasion effect some bard songs (like fire and ice, since it's not necessarily sound) - it would still effect spellbane.

-Give defenders some type of meditation - as I've watched a friend play a giant defender, it was near worthless with his regen and makes the defender unwanted by a big majority of warrior-isk races.

-Force berserkers to have auto-assist off when grouped with other villagers - this is a horrible idea, but I can't think of any other way for the ganging to stop when they get attacked. With auto-assist off, all you'd have to do is blind them and then hit them....well, anyways, there should be something to limit villagers telling each other to flee while they massacre someone like this - http://www.qhcf.net/cforum/logs/vpost.pl?53357

I like villagers, just make it a bit more sane for same classes to fight villagers - it's not always an option to gang a villager, especially if honorbound or something to that effect. A class I once considered was a maran transmuter, then I realized how horrible it'd be against villagers - and getting wands as a trannie isn't exactly an easy option. Yes, there are ways to dirty fight (wait in duo), but what if they wanted to be sphere honor? Anyways, enough ranting - I like the cabal just wish some things were stronger in some areas and weaker in others.

NewTrapper