Displaying item received, spell learned or amount of gold received in a dialog box

I was actually considering adding something like this into my hack

well not so much as a savepoint

but an old guy that is wandering around the world that asks you questions/riddles

This is by far a better idea than a save point...

I used that save point because there was a one time event related to the first time you get to a save point. Anyway you could even make you old sage travel by having his appearance bit cleared at the second location if you didn't met him at the first one.