Wow, the work going on behind the scenes here is insane. I really like your ideas here.
My concern looking at this is we need to be very on top of our help files. This type of combat will be different from almost all MUDs out there which is good if people understand it and bad if people can’t figure it out. Once it is in place I can work on adding it to the tutorial zone. We need to make sure all of these incredible additions are understood properly by the players. It sounds like DnD people will pick up on it quick, but non DnD players will be confused which is fine as long as we explain it properly.
I seriously can’t wait to see this + feats live.