Today I am going to focus on 4 interrelated systems in GS. They are: Combat, Friend of Foe, Breakage, and the inevitable ending, Death ( Read more... )

Obviously since leveling in GS, whether 3 or 4, is primarily dependent on hunting, knowing the new skills was important, as was the totally new CM list. But what about spells ( Read more... )

Well, it happened. What we've all been waiting for: The new experience system. I am going to put all the url's here just in case you want to see the real thing, but I am also going to break it down a bit after that ( Read more... )

As well as changes to stats and racial bonuses and modifiers, there are also changes to the CM list ( Read more... )

(When I spell checked this before posting it, I could see that all my neat charts have gone haywire again. I apologise once more, but try as I might, I am too much a software dummy to see how to prevent it. Help, anyone ( Read more... )

When I reviewed the previous entry to check for spelling errors (naturally, there were none, I am after all, a Scorpio!) the chart I had made for the skills looked just as it should. Somehow in posting it, it became the nasty mess it did. If anyone has a solution to it, or can even tell me if it's possible to correct that mess for future viewing ( Read more... )

Before you can actually play GS for the first time you have to go through the torture chamber called the character manager, known to us fondly as The Mangler. It is in the Mangler that you create your new character from head to toe. We are promised a new mangler, a graphical one, whatever that may entail, in GS4. Perhaps we'll get to 'see' our ( Read more... )

Alright, we now know that there are to be huge changes to GemStone. It will no longer be the game we knew and loved, according to a lot of people. If, in fact, the GM's come back with some gawd-awful change to experience, something not much better than they proposed at the end of March, then I think the exodus from GS will continue. (I won't be ( Read more... )

The next question on your minds might be "what are the new professions?" Here's the answer to that ( Read more... )

Let's start with some of the really interesting stuff ... the new races ( Read more... )