Welcome to the board, serpent janitor!!! (intersting handle!
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IT is far too easy in this game to knock off Scanthril and crew before you find out that he has something to offer. Aside from reloading a previous game (which is often way too far back by the time you find out he was the key to becoming an Assassin), the other solution is to have me hack you an Assassin's Dagger. I've hacked that dagger more than any other single item in the game. If you'd like to take that option, send me a ZIPPED or RARed copy of your gamexx.sav and be patient! Doesn't take me long to hack the file (2 to 4 minutes for this one) but it can take me hours to email it back because of the size of the file.
2) well, it depends. I never experienced any "law of diminishment" within W&W so considered increases always to be beneficial. I also wasn't trying to gain every skill possible for my characters (we skipped most of the different weapon skills) which allowed me to concentrate more on building up the few that I thought were important. I always kept bumping up my spell skills whenever possible. Since skills tend to scroll off the screen (you don't loose the skill, you just can't increase them at level up time), it has been suggested that increasing the skills at the bottom of the right hand column should be a priority before you scroll them off with the addition of a new skill.
Someone else is bound to have a far more definitive opinion on this topic than I. Hopefully they will share their insights!
Wyv