undead dolphin hacker said:
I started playing POWS back before Christmas and recently got back to it. I was going to make a new thread with some questions but as long as this one is here...
*After I find the armor and purchase the ship, are there any other quests left in the game or is it just free wandering?
There are more quests. Some of them are kind of tricky to get(one involves being in a specific town wandering from place to place at night and running into a specific NPC). But yeah...there is a lot of non-linear wandering about and ransacking dungeons and such.
*Does reputation matter at all? If so, how?
Going from memory here but I know that if reputation gets too low with certain factions then you will have difficulty doing much in those faction's towns. So if you are a wanted man by the Hobgoblins then do not expect to be able to walk the streets of Helgkor for long(if at all). Same goes for Wrayland etc.
I cannot remember what the other effects are(possibly affects prices or quest availability?).
Artillery is worthless because ship-to-ship combat(with cannons) does not work right.
Haggling is broken in that, if you raise it to a certain level you will be able to buy products in a town and sell them back to the guy you bought them from at a profit.
Don't remember if Tom got around to removing "Stealing" from the game but if it IS still there then do not bother putting points into it since stealing from shops has been disabled.
There is also an exploit bug with scribing and characters who have high magic skill and a single point of prayer skill in that they wioll be able to scribe scrolls of high level prayer spells even though his prayer skill is not high enough to cast any prayers.
There may be another one I am forgetting but I will go check and come back here later...
*Are there any other Mage Guilds (or whatever) aside from the one in the starting town?
Yes. Many.
*Can Priests ever learn new spells? If so, how?
Priests are only able to cast the spells of their deity. Each deity has a specific list of spells he grants which you can read about
HERE.
For example Ont-Zlak, the death god grants spells like "Wither Head" but not spells like "Summon Dragon". You just have to raise your prayer skill high enough to cast the spells.