Power-ups

Not sure you need both the Fireball and the Bow; we don't have too many actual sources of damage yet and taking two ranged weapons feels a bit like overkill this early on. On top of that, with either the Bow or Fireball you'll be at range and want to stay at range, so probably better to take Speed+1 (to keep you away from enemies) over the Health (only useful if you're taking damage, which as a ranged attacker, you shouldn't be).

Personally I'd leave the Fireball for Trout (who has decided to take Magic+1, which is useless without a spell).

Trout isn't taking fireball because Schazer doesn't want it (Schazer: Do you want it?) and someone else is already taking speed (plet, i think). Also, what if I come across a link? It would be useful with this selection. Running out of arrows or mana is also something that can happen.

So, although you're right, some of these things are beyond my control (the fact that others want different things) so i pretty much have to take what I can get. And then trade things off between my inventory/other people when I can.

Lankie: Going north is something that I'd like to do after retrieving such koolio powers.