And maybe there's a better use of the BoL on the worldmap, check this out:
https://attnam.com/posts/30444

also, i was thinking about a way to go off the world map, and die by falling onto the frog which holds the world on its back.

ooh definitely go for that!

On a similar note , how about 'bottomless pits' that kill you instantly, death message "(player) fell all the way through the earth to the Great World Frog"

i'm not sure about this. it doesn't look fair, and IVAN is the fair game. i mean, most of the time you die by doing something stupid, and most traps are not insta-kills.

on the other side… it might be possible to blow a hole in level floor if you'll try hard enough, and fall down to the dungeon below. like, stack a lot of backpacks, mines and such, blow them away, and voila. it will require adding HP to floor tiles, though, but it should not be that hard to implement.

but i'm more about making various "end game routes" mutually exclusive, because OP player will prolly wipe the floor with Oree and his minions, for example. it might be fun to show everybody who's The Boss, of course, but… i don't feel like it plays good with "the spirit of IVAN". also, this adds some strategy too: should i go for Elpuri and Petrus? or help Aslona officials? or rebels? or became a wizard? choosing one of those should close other routes. at least that's how i envision the game.

Yup, that's the way it works in vanilla and I think it works well. Getting the loot from several dungeons quickly makes the player way too powerful. CLIVAN had this problems and it's also the only variant where I killed Oree.

hm. interesting idea! there is a wizard in Aslona, and he prolly could have some more sidequests. prove yourself, and the wizard will make you his apprentice.

this should be something simple, though, because a huge quest will make the player overpowered. maybe yet another route to finish the game? i.e. instead of doing favors to Aslona officials, screw them, and go learning magic?

I don't like the save loading idea, I think that was a joke suggestion anyway. That could really piss people off

But I do like the moving back and forth in time, if done right that could be really cool. Question is how exactly it would work

If jumping into the future:
* would the player's hunger be affected?
* would food they're carrying spoil?
* would things that are on fire burn up?

if jumping into the past:
* would the player teleport back to where they were at that point in time?
* would mobs that had been killed during that time come back to life?

Being able to track and restore their state would mean it would have to be limited to a certain number of steps... but I think that's better anyway. It would be much more clear to the player that they're jumping back in time - I'm thinking something like Dr. Strange fighting Dormammu where they get frustrated having to fight him over and over again (but are also forced to try something new each time, since the pseudorandom seed would be the same, repeating the same actions would result in the exact same outcome). How cool would it be if we could actually animate things "rewinding"?? And if you encounter him above ground being able to see the light change as the sun rises/sets.

Also, an idea to keep him from being overpowered - his time traveling ability could be limited to a certain number of uses, it could even be a "staff of time travel" that he uses, and then if the player manages to kill him before he uses all the charges, they may even be able to time travel by their own choice!