Ya this kinda hurts my head too!
Atm I\'m a thief (I screwed my char gen big-time) and killed some defenseless rat beasts for two progress points. I then went to the magic shoppe and bought two skills in \'the dark way\'. my green bar moved up slightly (but only a very small bit) into the yellow but I didn\'t level up. Was this a silly thing to do? is it impossible (or at least v.hard to become a semi-magic user type spellsword?)
can you advance in skills without training? I.e advance in the sword skills just by fighting monsters alone?
On a comic note I got killed by the Carkcass (sp?) in the death realm for 3890 hit points

Oh btw I\'m settin\' up shop selling potions in dsar Akkaio if anyone wants to drop by...
EDIT: OMG! that sounds complicated Demar! /me pouts