@Jason: Ha, we definitely don't have any "famous" actors—we can't afford anyone famous. These are folks who are active in the indie game and modding communities. We posted auditions online and got a ton of submissions, and most of the cast came from that initial pool. Obviously they'll all be named in the game's credits, and you can always track them down from there if you want. But I don't think any of the names would mean anything to you if I was to list them off here. Hopefully that sort of answered your question.

One thing I'm really excited to see when the game comes out, is  all the different ways in which people will find to play the classes .

hey all, it's me posting here on tis topic for the first time, even I follow you excitedly
am I right all the classes in the game are mage, thief, necromancer priest warrior... and I totally forgot what I wanted to say as the sixth class
can someone tell the classes or am I missing something?

what's the difference between mage and battle mage? can't they both do combat?

Regarding classes: Someone was definitely paying attention, as that was originally the list of classes. However during a major overhaul of the skill system, we actually combined mage and battlemage into a single class. So yes, the classes are now warrior, ranger, thief, mage, priest, and necromancer.

Blindjay: Good question. You're not the first to ask about inventory management. An auto-equip option would be great in theory, but the problem is that there is no objective way to determine what piece of armor is "best." For example, which is "better"—a piece of armor that provides better defense but is much heavier? Or a much weaker piece of armor that provides a 15% bonus to your evade chance? What about a piece of armor with an equal armor rating against all damage types, versus one which has a 20% bonus against piercing damage but a 20% weakness to blunt damage? And so on.

But we have done one thing to help with inventory management, which is that when you look at an item either in your inventory/equip screen or in a shop or container, you can not only see that item's stats, but your currently equipped item's stats for comparison. So when you pick up a new piece of armor, as you're picking it up you can compare its stats to your currently equipped armor's stats to see if you want to switch it out.

And yes, you can definitely sell unwanted gear. It's really your main way of making money, along with rewards for completing quests and finding it in containers—but you probably make the most off of selling unwanted gear.

Mainstream game Gameboy advance port of final fantasy 6/final fantasy 3 had optimize, which equipped the best equipment of your currently selected character.  But otherwise, no other games that I know of.  But that was a port of the original super nintendo game so it had a bunch of added features to make things a bit easier/fun.  Great to hear about the ability to look at newly picked up items compared to what is currently equipped, will be a huge help for all levels of player.

Regarding auto-equip: I guess it would work in a game with a simple enough armor mechanic, such as simply an armor rating with no other effects. It's when you get into pros vs. cons that it wouldn't work out well.

Regarding special attacks: Each party member has unique characteristics, some of which are available as soon as you get them, others which require completing certain quests. Not all of these are special skills or attacks, but some arr. There are also some skills that only your player character can learn, by virtue of completing certain quests. In addition, each class has certain skills that are only available to that class, so depending on which class you play as, there may be party members who are the only ones with those skills. I won't say any more about the character-specific stuff because I don't want to spoil the fun of finding out for yourself.

Not only that but the optimize option only tok physical defense into account and completely ignored special protections. So it would equip the armor with the best physical defense and not that one that had slightly weaker physical protection but protected against sleep, poison or paralysis.

Are you planning a subclass system, like Dungeons and Dragons does> For example, a subclass of fighter was Eldritch Knight. In this case, could paladin be a subclass of priest or Warrior?

The more I read about this game, the more I'm looking forward to playing it, I like games where you have to work out the best combinations of equipment for your style of play

Sure. I always get more excited the more I know new things about the game. Looking forward to play this game as soon as it comes out. Great work guys.