Radix Malorum Est Cupiditas

I think both ways suck, it should be that if you steal something, the person who owns it should go hostile, and if you steal around three or something then the town.

that "payed a mage" idea is all very nice except there was another topic called "in the sewers of shaydar" where someone showed that the anama kill all mages they don't like which would be all mages except the ones in your party (as you are a potential convert).

ask the mind for the second test, go into the room below him to get the bracelet, go to the only room you havent been in before (NE in the training complex), step on the rune kill the golems, go back to the room you got the bracelet in step on the rune and viola a gemstone in the bracelet, at lvl 32 you should be able to pass the first few easily.

I play either a 2 character party (A2/3/BoA) slith spear/tank sluggish/sickness prone nephil bow/tool use sluggish/brittle bones or 1 character (A1/2/3/BoA) human mage/priest natural mage/comepletely inept huge amounts of exp, levels go by in minutes, pretty soon the disadvantages disappear beneath piles of skill points. EDIT: i mixed up the game I was playing at the time (for variety) with the one I like playing as.

or you could just save before difficult fights. if it fills over a slot that you didn't want it to, just reload.