A random surfer found by coinsidence the prizes on the new windoez vista on the canadian microsofts hp

vista home = 275.777 usd
vista ultima = 448.227 usd

quite outrageous, imagine that a couple have to upgrade os, and only knows about windoez, maybe they only need 10% of what is on vista... that would mean they are paying for something they don't need, which would be a robbery.

This is not the entire cost, I'm afraid. All prices - regardless of version - also include exactly one soul.

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Personally I think that if permament enchantments that aren\'t incredibly weak are to be added, it should require a large sacrifice from the creator of the enchantment to make sure enchanted weapons stay rare. Like transfering (thus losing) a large portion of the knowledge in the way the enchanter enchanted the item to the item, or having your body become weakened by all the energy flowing throught it (losing Endurance and strenght) of course, there should also be a posibility of backfiring while enchanting which would make you lose the power you invested into it for nothing.
Enchanting items permamently should permamently weaken the enchanter, and the power sacrificed should be proportional to the power of the enchanted item.

@Nikodemus: My goal was not to make combat hard which is all your idea does (it is still a resource), but to make it a problem rather than the resource right now...

Also, I did not suggest removing a hp based system, just balancing it so that a few hits usually empty ones hp, thus making the system depend much more than luck.

@Draklar: I suppose that you know alot more than me about medieval Combat then, so I suppose this system is unrealistic if it is impossible to beat a superior regardless how many times you try... /me wanders off to think of another way to discourage combat.

*raises a white flag*

It has always seemed odd, unrealistic stupid and un-rpish to me that in many games enemies were a resource of power rather than a problem, I believe this can be avoided by doing three simple things.

First and most obvious is a high punishment for dying, if the Death Realm is painful enough and takes enough time to get out of (preferably RL days), it might be enough.

Second is Making combat give you very little in terms money when compared to crafting, and very little of combat experience when compared to sparring or training (with the time the deaths will take taken into acount).

Third, and most important is making it combat extremly risky, this is best done by making even the most resilient of warriors go down after three, at most four hits (this should probably be reserved for Krans and Ynwns), and making normal people go down after one or two, and make the chance to hit slim, this way, with a little bit of bad luck an experienced swordsman can be brought down by an untrained newcomer (this should also discourage constant challengeing of the newcomers, since even the most experienced of warriors should have a, say 20% chance of losing instead of the 0.0000001% chance most games have between even short intervals of experience).
But won\'t this make ranged combat overpowered? make it so that most objects launched by various bows and crossbows often miss and even more often can be absorbed by even light armors, and make it so that spells usually either miss, backfire or are resisted.

My third point in short: have combat consist of mostly dodging/absorbing blows with your armor/parrying/resisting spells/missing, but make it so that a few hits can take down even very resilient krans or ynwns, making combat depend a Great bit on luck thus making it so that no one can fight safely even against a much weaker opponent.

If we do all this, combat will be so risky and unrewarding that people will try to avoid it most of the time, making the stalacite much more realistic and in my opinion rp friendly.

I feel that this is a good time to point out that there is, in fact, no moon seen from Yliakum, as it is underground, unless a thoughtthrought backstory (somehow) is behind this, the guild contradicts the PS settings, thought I suspect it is just another stupid, pointless, mass-recruiting OOC guild (probably with a leader who doesn\'t have a clue about the PS setting).

ooc: seems I\'m the only one who showed up, so we\'ll have to postpone it, do you think you can get the client working until tomorrow?

Won\'t this provide the kind of guide for powerlevelers (like which glyphs to combine, which way is best to kill a certain monster, etc) with info you don\'t want the players to find in an oocish way?