- studying creatures collect research points (mages and owls best, higher levels faster); studying gives less mana than before - free play starts with the basics; campaign missions know what their story allows and can research what the next four missions would bring - research shown in the top bar; the library's info lists the current item and what comes next; locked tools say whether they can be researched Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>