[Xietor]

Excellent guide.

I will add my pretender choice/scales after i complete my current mp game. It is no secret who my pretender is-Master Lich. But his paths are unknown to my enemies. He is of course, high in death magic.

This ties in to the guide's astute observation that when elephants become obsolete, you need thugs to contend. Rather than tie into death, I embraced it as a major theme, and got well of misery up fairly early.

As clams were expensive to make, with a mod increasing their cost, making clams was not a theme i embraced.
Mods increasing the cost of clams in mp seems to be on the rise.