If happy of the warm welcome this idea got! I think elminster\'s post reflected most of my idea for those who didn\'t understood my primary post. Now, since it\'s an open project, anybody can help developping the game. I do have some c++ experience and am willing to invest time coding, even if i don\'t have much of it free(sick!).

First, let\'s say it is some idea we could apply to any class of character. Let it be fighter, rogue, wizard, monk.  Each of those need to learn their respective skills which, for now, are given with level acquisition.  For exemple, a fight could learn his moves: by experiencing by himself or by being thaugh how to. I remember the game \"die by the sword\" where the character could make a whole lot of specific moves, some of which where really wicked!, by using the keypadnumbers. Each number was refering to a movment dirrection so a character could use his own sword the way he wanted. I\'d say that before the movment become fluid, he need to practice alot !!! again there is the armor weight, weapon weight, etc. One\'s character should be able to develop the ability to lift more weight as time goes on and as he\'s been lifting some weight near his weight lifting limit... etc.  Let\'s say that way he would develop his muscles with \"efforts\" through \"time\".

Now about a spell language.  I need some ideas on how you would like to see it become. I mean, what do you feel your character must learn to say a spell. I think part of a spell should be obvious and part should be irrelevant, hidden, unknown, etc. In this game we also have schools of magic in which the character can be \"born\" proficient. I think those school and the amount of focus\"points\" you put in each specific area, should enabled all the school specific magic keywords for a character, not the other keywords for other classes. Therefor, one who his proficient in blue and death could learn those spells by himself but, to learn other spells outside of them, he would need to relly on other party help(teaching but not necessarily from books because it would allow to many cheats but we could get rid of most of those cheats i think).

The way i currently see it :
A-  -> those would refer to the school/god of magic and the server or the client side would use it to check if the user as the keywords enabled to use it. One or more schools are usabled i think up to some kink of max.

B- \"now the hard part!!!\"
    1)here the user should specify which components of the world/magic he wanna use in his spells. -> only server would check if he can use thoses.
    2)after that, the wizard whould need to specify how he want to manipulate thoses forces, what he want to do with them! This is where i would put any type of locking based on the user level/experience and on the user use of specific forces manipulations! -> both client and server side checks.
    3)his spell closing in which he would also give a spell name. -> server side check only.

C- not yet sure what to put in there. suggestions?

Of course, everything in those areas would be working with sentences but the checking would be done with keywords. That way a user could use his own language to create the effects he wants!

This system would work well as a sub-class of a more general character class and it would be alot of work!!! but i think it worth it.

what you think ?

muf

P.S.: Sorry for any spelling mistake