Thanks for answering, folks. It's plain that Genesis is just not for my friends and myself -- for one thing, we're just plain weirded out that we can't get clear answers on training our characters but can get step-by-step on dozens of quests (which ought to be Top Secret info if anything is). Good ...

how this is bad money? you sound to whine. don't sound as this spend it and do it. is not a trick My apologies; my usual expectation is that learning how games work is a good thing, and muddling around on my own asking as few questions as possible wasn't accomplishing much. Me not being the one sta...

No, I haven't maxed every pertinent skill in the Academy. Is that what needs to happen before any of the spells work in combat at all? If so, then that goes back to my earlier speculation that it's just not worth someone's while to seek to be a wizard as a newbie, when one can pour all that trainin...

Exactly. Whats the point then? I'm thinking much the same. I've joined the Academy, and sunk a great deal of time and coin into a bunch of magic and spell skills, and have been taught all the spells the Academy accords, only for game messaging to tell me that I'm still not advanced enough in the pr...

So OK -- I'm new here, and I've been playing text-based games (principally Gemstone, Dragon's Gate and Fed II) for 25 years now. So far, people have been helpful; no one can say otherwise. I recognize that folks don't want to hand out a heap of quest spoilers, and that's good, but there's a lot tha...