>
>I'm glad you posted this as I had also heard it but my source wasn't
>quite as unimpeachable as yours so I didn't want to get into a big flame
>war about it. My same source (another beta tester from P2 on) also said
>JM's main char through most of beta was a rogue. Still, he seemed to
>know a fair bit about bards and had some useful information. Shame he
>seems to be gone.
>
>

Well having been in beta since phase one, Capozzi's name was awefully
familiar to me from chat sessions, but untill you posted this i couldnt
place it. He played the highest level character in beta for the longest
time, Kendrick the rogue. My first run in was with him at level 12 and me
as a level 4 erudite wizard named Emandin. He saved me from some particular
nasty klicknik worker and gave me 100 silver to boot! I was thunderstruck,
a level 12 character! Was very impressed, but that was the last i saw of
him as he quickly advanced and started hunting in places i could not.

< starts talking like an old timer, muttering about the degeneracy found in
today's youth>
Back then i remember when you died you lost a bubble and half from dying!
And you needed a topaz if you wanted to be bound, and those where only sold
in Highhold! Kids today got it too easy!
< nods off and starts to snore in his rocking chair>

Gendal Concorden, lvl 50 bard of Tunare
Who is very glad that bind no longer requires a topaz and you lose little
to no xp from dying anymore (compartively anyways).