Personally I think few thinks should be added in the next avernum, what about you?
To me there should be:
-Murders (you can kill someone silently if you have a great assasination skill)
-more houses that can be bought, and of course, the recall stones would teleport you in them!
-trhowing knives or daggers
-houses that can be built
-Zone spells (like flame cloud or fireball, or ice wall and ect...)
-an ability that makes you can have one weapon on each hands.
-generally more spells and thathave differents effects (icelances should paralise at hight level, fireblast should make people burn for a duration ect..)(why does the lista llways have the sam numbers of spells?)
-definetly more unusual abilities, like to fly or to make a special attack that hurts and drain life, or an attack that teleports you, or an attack that makes you defend this turn and if someone attacks you, you block his attack and you make a conter attack)
-generally more plasticity (well it isn't a god translation of the word in french) you know, for example, you shoulkd be able to work as a mercant, or to be a bad guy and ally your foes against your friends and the like.
-a safe travel that enables you to fly at the third level.
-a more realistic thievinng feature, you might have to hide to break a door or to pick it's lock, but the magic way wouldn't ahev such problems, but might be harder to use (tryely harder to use) and you shouldn't be able to moove a create like this, ni front of everyone, and the items that you put on the floor would be stealth if they arent in a chest or in you home)
-Chest in witch you can put object, better for the roleplay.
-a skill that makes you can have more that 20 items in your bad (like dexterity or the like)
-And maybe, but that would be really the best, the fact that, you can take notes with paper and ink (you know, you can write what you want) or maybe you souldn't be able to take notes if you haven't such things.
That is all for now, Avernum is truely a great game, full of great idears (for example, that the city gets destroyed if you don't defend them) and that would be really great if thoose things are added, but I think I am not the only one that have such ideas (please add the two handed way of fighting! that was sooo coool!!!)