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And a warm welcome to the board from me as well. [img]graemlins/happywave.gif[/img]

I cannot help you much with your main question since I have never played the Wizardry series. I can however heavily endorse this game.

Do feel free to ask us about game details that you want to know more about. Also if you use the search engine you are sure to find many threads around this forum where people, new to the game, have had questions answered.