To Lanarel:

The Hurd is the official OS of the GNU project (a sort of replacement for the linux OS, which is by GNU, but is a not a GNU project). It is a very ambitious project, with the slowest possible development you can imagine. It supports almost nothing (in terms of modern hardware), and takes a lot of time to install (it took me a week).
It has many interesting features due to its very unique structure, but it is very unlikely that it will be working before 10 years (lower bound).

 I don't really see the comparison of the Hurd, an experimental OS, with PS (apart from the fact that PS is not finished as well), a game (engine).

If that means having an activity as intense as the Hurd (close to zero), and releases as often as the Hurd (close to zero), maybe, the developers should stick with what they do now.
In any case, if the point is having more modularity, do not take it lightly, I worked on a project which was completely rewritten in order to gain more modularity, the results were good, the amount of work required were huge and painful.

Here are my thoughts on the DR, I have been PS not for very long, but I have played and organized many, many (not video games) role playing games.

I'll say that DR lacks two things at the moment.

1- It is too small to be a realm.
2- It should emphasize the fact that dying is important, not just a few minutes which keeps you away from the game.

For the first part, I would add a big city, a castle, a temple, and enough activities so that the DR becomes really a place where one can roleplay all the time (I'm sure some players do that now, but there are probably extremely rare).

The second part is much more tricky. What is important to keep in mind is that people will die often, especially beginners/new players/new characters.

In a role playing game (not a video game), beginners are guided by the Game Master in order to prevent them from dying. If, by badluck, they die for whatever reasons, the GM will often allow the player to throw the dice again, or/and be relatively lenient. Moreover, no one dies in a real role playing game because of a bug (out of bound...). On the other hand, in PS, it is very different. At the beginning, it is not clear for everyone, that this or that will be dangerous, and of course, everyone will die one day or the other because of a bug.

Thus, I believe the most important thing is to try not to penalize too much/make life difficult for people dying in the case where :

- they are weak
- they are new players
- they died because of a bug.

I believe that before introducing a complex set of rules and lots of work for the dev and settings team, one should try to find a system where the above problem is solved.

For instance, one could do the following.

Based on stats/levels, when one dies, one arrives in different places of the DR, very far away from the exit for people which are strong, relatively close (as it is at the moment seems balanced to me for instance) for weak people.

As from dying from a bug, maybe one could get a script which checks when someone dies what happens. If there is an out of bounds a few minute before or after dying, then one should get automatically spawn in Hydlaa, Oja etc.. If during a fight, one should die and go to the DR.

The above points above are for me, the most important points to adress.

Now, assuming the above points to be treated, as many other people, I agree that dying should be important, and people should really understand that it is not a good thing (unless you belong to a very special group of fanatics of some religions etc...), that you should do everything t avoid it, etc.

I don't like so much the idea of a maze. It will be fun the first time, and then it will be annoying. Playing should always be fun.
One could impose on the other hand that, based on stats/level, one cannot escape the DR before a certain time, or impose a stronger curse. What is important is that people dying should be able to play and at the same time, their character should not be able to maintain a strong position in the real world. One could impose that after going into the DR, one loses a lot of social status in real life, because of the curse, diseases, or a huge drop in charisma etc...
One could also impose that if killed by a professional assassin, following a certain set of rules (given by Dakkru???) then one cannot escape the DR before a certain time. Of course, this time will not be known exactly.

Thanks to the dev and setting team (and the players) for their involvements in the game.

Waouh, I can't wait to see this launcher. Congratulations to the dev team.

Thanks for all your suggestions. I've watched the beginning of the Google tech, and will watch the rest soon.
Congratulations to all contributors of PS.

First of all, let me congratulate everyone who has been working on the quests, they are fantastic. I've almost finish a particular quest, but I found it very hard  because the NPC did not accept the right sentence which was something like Thr[...] the Dw[...] [....] where I have removed many letters to avoid spoilers, but it did accept  Thr[...] Dw[...] [....] , where you remove the "the".

I spent quite a lot of time on it before I found a post where a similar issue happened which helped me.
Perhaps, you could also make the NPC understand similar answers (which I have tried), such as "in the sky", "above your head..."

(we should perhaps erase this post once it has been treated to avoid spoiler).

The quest I am referring to is D[...] W[....] wants the messenger b[...].

Sorry, I've read again the post of Lanarel, and understood something which I did not before about the blue bars. So I guess apart from the crash, the rest could be fine. Just ignore the previous post and accept my apologies.