Welcome - unfortunately due to a HD crash I have lost all my Darkstone stuff including my level 120 thief
Never mind, I can still answer the odd question or two...........
Sadly, there is unlikely to be a Darkstone 2 in the forseeable future. It seems that this game did not generate enough interest to warrant the development.
As for hotkeying spell and skills, you need to open the spell book, select an available number in the list box on the interface bar (this is the box under the character you have noticed), then hold down the shift key and click on the spell you want to bind to that hotkey.
Hope that helps [img]graemlins/wavey.gif[/img]