I'm back! In fact, I got back last night, but was so busy / tired that I didn't get a chance to update this until today. (I'm still tired, actually, and a bit sick, but the show must go on!)
So, I made some changes based on feedback at PAX:
--the actions menu is now always visible alongside character movement tiles, resulting in far fewer clicks to get what you want done. You'll never see that "Actions" button again, and you'll seldom even see the Move button.
--the actions menu now stays onscreen after characters attack and after you hit Done.
--for those occasions where you don't want move tiles cluttering the screen, you can now right-click them to make them disappear.
--all of the action buttons with hotkeys now display their associated keyboard shortcuts on mouseover.
Also: there are now a bunch of new item graphics! A few are getting edited now, but most of them are done and ready for use. A few are for quest items (letter, package), a bunch are new weapons (rapier, main gauche, halberd, throwing knife, throwing axe), we've got decanters of wine, two varieties of boot graphics, and color variations on the gem graphic. Once edits are done, we'll have orb graphics available as well.
