I'm wondering- does Skill Focus affect a skill's base training %? Say for example there's an NPC that can train Mount up to Journeyman, but I get Skill Focus: Mount when I'm an apprentice. Can I only train up to journeyman still, or can I train until the BASE mount ability is at journeyman, plus the...

Isolrem wrote:Besides, why are you wandering around without lights, considering the RP thing to do would be to set camp, build a fire and rest?

It's not a roleplaying concern, it's a technical concern. Whether or not I'm roleplaying at the time, the problem persists.

Ah yes, apologies- I didn't realize that the room name did display when you do Look <direction>. Last thing (I promise): the ? that denote entrance areas on the VT minimap aren't visible from doing Look <dir>, and I personally spent many newbie hours wandering around wondering how to get to that far...

I use zMud, and FK's VT feature to display a minimap while I'm travelling outside of cities so I can see the road. At night, the minimap disappears (..because there's no light) unless I hold a lamp, which gives me a much smaller minimap. This reduced minimap shows 9 icons: me, and the terrain of the...

This echo bugs me a little.. what if it's not in my character's nature to smile? Or, for that matter, for the green-winged macaw that I'm fighting? :-/ I would suggest in its place a series of randomized strings with more of a non-human-specific tone, something like "$N misses $T by scant inche...

I've always had my own idea of what it means when one of my characters "levels up". Wanted to ask you guys what you think it might feel like. Levelling (in most games) means more HP MP and stats of some kind. In general it seems you're able to take more abuse and keep kicking, physically a...