So, currently messing around with loads of XML, even worked up a nice (dynamic) XML-based NPC conversation system. Of course I'm going to scrap the code, and get serious about things. This means yet another boring design document, in which I spend four to five hours in Notepad dredging up yet more custom datums to confer nicely with my XML schema. If you couldn't tell, I'm overjoyed. Is it sad that I'm actually pondering writing the most advanced XML datum I possibly can, which practically automagically loads all of it's data into itself, and then writing a C# program to generate such classes based on an input XML file? Curse you Deadron! Curse you for such good ideas!