I am not sure if you had issues when you cut and pasted the code, but some things are missing: 

print "The goblins have been zapped into toads!\n";
$gold=$gold+3;
"good job you got 3 gold!\n";
&freedale

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There is no print statement in front of the "good job you got 3 gold!\n"; You do not use warnings or strict, and you didn't chomp $name.

If you do not mind, I would like to use your code as a base, and then build it up myself. I am not an RPG type of guy, but I think this would be a great excersise in developing my Perl skills because it is a large scope project. A couple of ideas that came to mind such as storing the information into a database if someone wanted to save their game. /msg me if it is ok.

UPDATE

I am not condeming you for the mistakes. The critism is/was meant to be contructive. I really like the game and think it is a very worthy project.

Limbic~Region

In reply to Re: Wizard v1.0 by Limbic~Region
in thread Wizard v1.0 by legolas

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