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> I don't trade items or gold between parties. I like it for each of my parties to go it themselves, and I feel like they've earned the Items of Extra-Specialness that they find. I wouldn't feel right giving them a free ride.

Yes, you like a "high challenge" game. After the first one, I kind of like a "low frustration" game. The fact that I use dial up may have something to do with it.

BTW, I considered posting about this at the time,
but back then there wasn't as much interest in "who did what". The game in which I retired a single character was not a true one character game like yours, squidgunners or Darien's.

He was a level 8 sorcerer dead at Kaliti from a party that didn't work out. I kept flitting back and forth between wizard and sorcerer to get the spells I wanted, and in the process, he was dead broke and needed his pals to give up their gear or go on a gold-seeking mission three or four times to keep his drive alive.

So mine doesn't go in the record book even with an asterisk.

Barb