Hey kazakking! How are you?
Thanks for playing TAE RPG and thanks a lot for your feedback. Indeed we have a lot of work to do on the combat.
There is a lot to come, status effects (poison, stun, for instance), mobility skills, ranged weapons, consumable runes, resource veins on the grid. All of this is coming.
About the sword, TAE RPG has a death penalty, you loose your items on the inventory (not equipped) and your current level xp (not the level itself). We'll have a shared stash as well.
But that was a great feedback, thanks again!
Will be playing Spinatusplaytest!