Yes. One can usually pummel monsters whitout changing active skill. e.g. : praying But sometimes you will change skill, and then you lose the gods force: You avoid attacking cleaning woman . You pushed cleaning woman back. You start to attack cleaning woman !! You can no longer use the skill: praying. Your lifeforce returns! You feel much more healthy! You feel your digestion speeding up. Your resistance to fire rises to 0%. Your resistance to cold drops to 0%. Your resistance to draining drops to 0%. Your resistance to ghosts drops to 0%. Your resistance to poison drops to 0%. Your resistance to fear drops to 0%. Your resistance to depletion drops to 0%. Your resistance to death attacks drops to 0%. Skill tools are broken too: This is my "skills" output after picking 2 doors: disarm traps............................lvl: 1 (xp:175/2000/0%) evocation...............................lvl: 1 (xp:1717/2000/0%) find traps..............................lvl: 1 (xp:315/2000/0%) literacy................................lvl: 1 (xp:700/2000/0%) lockpicking.............................lvl: 1 (xp:0/2000/0%) lockpicking.............................lvl: 1 (xp:0/2000/0%) lockpicking.............................lvl: 1 (xp:0/2000/0%) one handed weapons......................lvl: 4 (xp:8671/16000/0%) praying.................................lvl: 6 (xp:44984/64000/0%) punching................................lvl: 1 (xp:0/2000/0%) smithery................................lvl: 3 (xp:4825/8000/0%) throwing................................lvl: 1 (xp:0/2000/0%) use magic item..........................lvl: 1 (xp:0/2000/0%) 3 entries for lockpicking - all of them at zero. Bernd Edler _______________________________________________ crossfire-devel mailing list crossfire-devel at lists.real-time.com https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/crossfire-devel