Well fare enough if you think that fits better with the game, though personally while I am really not into racial disadvantages or minimaxing, I actually rather like having a racial advantage or miner quirk to play with just to remind me that I am! that race, indeed this is largely why I chose human since it really didn't seem to matter to me where as having an addvantage might have made me consider the choice a bit more. Also of course, If you made the racial advantages more in the manner of specific editions each race started with you might even consider letting characters earn those abilities later through quests given by each race, indeed rather than the above suggestions about certain races gaining skills mor quickly, you might just have it that certain races start! with some skills at higher levels to reflect their early life and racial culture.

So, a dwarf would start with haggling at 5 and axes at 5, but obviously other races would catch up soon, and even if the dwarf had the ability to get better prices for goods, other races could learn that ability by doing a dwarven quest.

As I said, this is your game and your decision, it was just that racial changes were something that occurred to me.

Hi all,

Thought I might post a small update on novelties as discussions about quests and features have moved in-game.

The craft system has been tested, approved and extended (e.g. crafted wooden things will have different characteristics depending upon the essence of wood used). Bows and crossbows have been made more natural: you will now need arrows / bolts to deal the full damage.

It is also at last possible to reset an area instead of having to wait for everyone to reset the whole world. Furthermore, command aliases are now implemented in Frandum. Eventually, miscellaneous changes include information on kingdoms in directions, easier manipulations of items in containers, more diversified invocation possibilities, new items, shops and quests...

Focus will now be put more on new content and areas, until you guys pour new ideas all over the place!

Okay, so I started playing again today, had to start over but that's okay because I got a little more than I did before. I'm not sure what to do about the bar. The basement only has beer and stuff but nothing else that I can see that could be important.

Oh, thanks.

Lol, classic rules for Frandom are rather like classic interactive fiction rules, look at anything that isn't nailed down, or indeed anything that is and try to push, pull or move it . Fortunately in Frandom the number of object interaction verbs is actually sane, I recall one very irritating experience where I spent ages trying to get some stuff inside a large fireplace, and after trying all varients of look in fireplace, get all fireplace, enter fireplace, crawl into fireplace, it eventually turned out the single only correct command was "in"
This is why I don't play classic If anymore, since for every great game I found, i tended to run into five more where I'd be utterly stuck trying to do something like "put box on table" to be told "I don't know how to put" or something like that.

I've been a trifle busy with my doctorate and other things, but I do want to get back to Frandum and see if I can find that dam Eucalyptus forest for the quest, and also do my innitiation into the church of galahir.

@Orin: the person you are looking for is quite obvious, but maybe you did not visit all the rooms in the city itself? No need to get into the castle for this quest.

@Dark: indeed it never occured to me that Frandum could be similar to an interactive fiction, given the complete set of RP features, but since our goal is to tell a story and make you feel like you belong into a consistent and original world, it does make kind of sense. When you come back you will be glad to notice that the paladins guild has just opened for followers of Galanhir (in order to right an ancient wrong as this was the only missing alignment guild).

A major and vast high-level area is also entering its final stages of building, but you still have time before the riddles will send you there, eh eh.

When I read the scroll in the farmhouse, it was marked in my diary but does not seem to be there anymore. Where should be marked as in the diary?
Also, what is the command to see how much of an area I've explored and how many qps I have left to get? Still looking for the person I have to see in the city but it looks as though I've explored a good bit of it.

@orin the spell riddles are under spells / secret of new spells (type diary home first if you're somewhere else in the diary). Don't forget the mission command that sums up all unfinished main quests. Eventually, you should explore the eastern part of the city: there is someone who matches exactly the description of the riddle. Cheers!

@everyone: due to a change to add "finger / whois" information, the game crashed whenever a new player connected for the first time. This has been fixed, our most sincere apologies.

@nuno69: There is a plot to follow to finish the game through 20 level quests and 20 spells quests. Indeed the game starts with a mystery and only by following the main quests will you get to the bottom of it. I have to warn you, though, that you will probably need to do other quests along the way to have enough points to go up to the next levels. But side quests will give more spells, allow you to rank in guilds for skills, lead to magic items or valuable stuf, so they are not here just for show.

You issed something for sure (the same mistake as I did), or may be you just...didn't look at that gift from the guard...

Buy one from arnold, or if you're lucky enough to get stuff from agnor, that'd be nice too.