For future updates the game needs more quality of life junk. Personally I’m an avid lover of all things magic. I'm terribly disappointed by how the game functions for that class. After a ton of playthrough on multiple saves, you’re better off choosing the warrior class. First of all, mana, unlike stamina, doesn't refresh between encounters. Meaning I have to pit stop for a rest between fights often if I wanna be of any use during a fight. Mages have the lowest strength for a class, which you can't put very many points into at the start. No weapon means I can't beat off an opponent every encounter, low strength means I do next to tickle me Elmo for damage. Why? Why doesn't a mage not possess a weapon? A staff or wand will do. Could use either to whack somebody over the head; or, you know reduce the cost of spells like most RPGs? Personally, in my experience the pauses between fights aren't manageable. Resting means you grow hungry, even the hunger charm barely reduces drain to my food stock that could've been used to travel places.
A good remedy for this is either upping gold drops, raising the sell price on items (seriously one measly gold for wine? lol), and building a system where the general store restocks their meat! I cannot tell you how screwed I get when I have money to spend but stores aren’t selling meat, instead selling duplicate items like the bedroll, condoms or wine; I’m having terrible luck running into the guy who sells 40 meats for 10 gold. He’s a one in a blue moon character. I’ve had to resort to grinding an hour of dick sucking in the tavern's glory hole restroom to keep my character fed for the road. It took me so long to reach 400 food. :')
Another gripe is why is there no charm to increase mana regen or through a perk, or perhaps through a dark spell meant to drain whoever for their untapped mana reserves. Be pretty cool to have an option to do so while in town tapping a passerby's shoulder and draining 'em dry and having you way with them in their weakened state; if you're up to being devious. Idk, so many encounters in game make you a bottom, be nice to have some more dom content.