I love what Lecter made

Because it's so blurry I suppose you didn't draw it yourself, but got it from somewhere and resized it?

As to this point I am also still in favor of the underlay effect for water. We could at least test it and make it an option for high performance PCs.
I think one under layer may be enough, especially if it were to be combined with transparent animated tiles drawn over them.

Looks great. Maybe it could use a bit more contrast by adding some darker pixels.

Maybe the outline should be darkened a bit. But yea, the third looks best so far. Good work.

Using blobs/dots for every detail is very inefficient resulting in thousands of particles. It's better to use more detailed sprites like with the waterfall. This can greatly reduce the number of particles needed. Spinning the particles (in a random direction with random speed) also makes it more int...

I understand that it is a fabric, but no matter how you move, the fabric wouldn't suddenly enclose the wearer's fist entirely as if it is a pair of golves. http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r156/SnEptUne/robe_p.png That's not the characters' fist. This is the frame where the player get a new arrow...

Or maybe a bunch of spikey things:

I agree with Crush. The contrast of the shading is ok, but the texture of the wood makes it stand out too much. Love it though.

How about some gears?

Also the letter system could be used to send items to players that are on the other side of the world. Just like princess Peach Toadstool did. I think letters and packages should be picked up at a post office. If a player could instantly send 10 new potions to a fellow party member that is in the mi...

...or milk can become cheese. http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y203/Modanung/fly.gif Yea, like this morning I opened my refrigerator and where there was a pack of milk yesterday now there was a lump of runny cheese. Sarcasm aside, I like the idea of changing items. http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/...

I'm more for trains, (air)ships and caravans.

We already have the giant maggots as well... so maybe you could make this one an in between version of the two. And looking at the mandibles of the giant maggot, maybe these all could me larval stages of the Bitan.

NPCs could wear high heels but it's not worth the effort to make a special player set that fits with high heels. All footwear should be wearable without the need of changing the stance of the players' feet.