Would love to see a picture of Max! You may have read somewhere on this board, that I do Border Collie rescue with a terrific group of people! We saved over 60 dogs this year! I have always had a lot of furry friends!! You can see some of mine over on the BC site
www.armbcr.org - in the section Our Pets and "Jeanne's".
Ironworks already has a Wizardry 8 forum. I had intended to be fairly involved with that but found that I didn't like the game and stopped playing it. My complaints were/are: The character development is very unappealing to me. The game really is biased against changing classes so you best choose the right class from the start and of course, unless you read a lot of the posts on forums ahead of time, you can't really figure out what classes that might be until you've played for quite a while. The other factor which is really what stopped me playing the game is I don't like my genre mixed. I don't like a medieval world constantly being inundated with sci-fi. The latter Might & Magic games tended to do this but only at the very end of the game. Wiz 8 starts out with your characters in a spaceship and then you end up crash landing on what appears to be a medieval world. The further I explored in the game the more computers and robots appeared and the less and less I liked it. I started playing before Christmas last winter and needing to take time off to mass produce Christmas ornaments for my son's teachers I used that as an excuse to stop playing and never bothered to pick it up again. W&W is the only game I played beginning to end and really enjoyed in many years. I was playing Dungeon Siege and enjoying that but got busy. I may pick that one up again when I find I have the time.
Jeanne