Haha, well I appreciate the reply. I actually just posted a progress report here, before xlw00tlx posted.
*There is already the equivalent of an "Alchemy Shop" if you play a Mummer character. It'll cost ya an arm and a leg, though...
*Not sure about the battle size changer. I have never had any crashes using the vanilla battle size settings, but I leave them on default - for the record, the only changes I make to the controls/difficulty of the game, when playing/testing, is which button is the action button (I bind to the E key), and which button is used to sheathe your weapon (I bind to the middle mouse button). I really try to make Solid and Shade quite difficult at "normal settings" allowing people who want a more hardcore experience to severely up the difficulty, and murder themselves sufficiently, so as to provide hours of entertainment.
I am looking forward to a certain devotion to playing this game in hardcore style - totally random characters, no re-loading save games, if you die you start over, and possibly playing at higher difficulty levels. This would be thrilling to me personally, and very Dark Souls/ADOM-esque.
*There will not be a final battle with the Bloodfountain. The Bloodfountain is truly immortal - on Calradia. That makes it the ONLY truly immortal being on Calradia - you may note that even Gods who come to this land (Hades) can die. Why do you think Athena and Zeus (from beyond the sky) and Poseidon (from beneath the sea) only speak and interact from outside the worldly sphere? Why do you think they are so angry? There is a realm that challenges even their dominion as Gods - they shamefully left Calradia when the Bloodfountain came, and now they are insanely vengeful. Not even they can fight the influence of the Abyss, it seems, and the Bloodfountain IS the portal to the Abyss...
*The demons come from the Abyss itself. That is why they have no skin - the Abyss is a universe of caves filled entirely with blood and skeletal undead; The Bloodfountain, Demons, and... other nameless, enormous things like bony jaws that grind anything in their path. There is no light there. There is no life there. And the Bloodfountain will end all life on Calradia as well. If it can find a way...