tinyE: Will do. Fun game but Gamespot was dead on for a change when they said it had it's share of minor annoyances. :D
Coelocanth: Yeah, there are a few minor things, but I really do find them just minor. Once I got rolling into the game, all that was forgotten. I'm far enough into it now though that I see what the complaints are about the second half being pretty much a hack and slash dungeon crawl. But still I'm having a blast with it. Far better game than I was led to expect.
Yep, amazingly fun game! I played it extensively some years ago. There is a vast expanse of equipment, you will never see it all in just one run through the game.
What i like to do at the start of every game keeping it multiplayer, which works fine for single player, get a big boss Character from a previous game to join in from a second PC, go to the crystals that spawn monsters when you touch them, save game, touch crystal multiple times quickly, kill all the monsters with the boss character using multiple area effect magics (*kill quickly*), check loot, if good enough, move to next crystal, repeat, after 3 crystals exit boss character and start your game with some amazing equipment, and don't worry about money anymore!!
Or you can do the above trick just for the purpose to see the variety of equipment that can be possible in the game. (reloading and killing the monsters many many times that is)