...besides Welcome to Armageddon!
Don't be afraid to experiment with your first several characters. :)
Play your PC like you believe they are real people separate from yourself, in a world of real people.
Be nice on the boards as best you can. Be mean in the game as best you can.
If you're a nurse, PM me.
I hope you're not attached to those boots....
If someone says, "Follow me" and then procedes to walk you into a building and shuts/locks the door...turn up the volume on your computer so you can get the full experience of your first mantis head beep.
Bow to the templars.
IC consequences of IC actions are not a reason to act out OOCly.
Don't leave the gates unless you plan on dying exploring, which is really fun.
Don't avoid dangerous, exciting, and fun things just because you're afraid of dying.
Leave yourself at the door, you'll want to be your character for this.
Quote from: Talia on March 12, 2015, 05:57:07 PM
IC consequences of IC actions are not a reason to act out OOCly.
Quote from: RogueGunslinger on March 12, 2015, 06:08:13 PM
Don't avoid dangerous, exciting, and fun things just because you're afraid of dying.
Quote from: Hicksville Hoochie on March 12, 2015, 06:25:22 PM
Leave yourself at the door, you'll want to be your character for this.
Amazing advise, all things i'd say myself, for any RP setting!
A leash can be pulled from both ends.
All elves are evil fucks.
This world desperately needs a hero... are you him?
Ask people questions in game.
Never trust elves.
The giant turtles aren't your friends.
I feel like all of these are secretly one thing.
Join a clan your first time out so you don't have to worry about making money and food and water.
Join a clan as quickly as you can. Playing solo is infinitely harder even after you are a vet, and you will probably die very quickly if you don't. A clan will teach you, help keep you alive if you listen and pay attention, and in the end, you are more likely to enjoy and stick with the game.
Quote from: Desertman on March 12, 2015, 07:40:52 PM
Join a clan as quickly as you can. Playing solo is infinitely harder even after you are a vet, and you will probably die very quickly if you don't. A clan will teach you, help keep you alive if you listen and pay attention, and in the end, you are more likely to enjoy and stick with the game.
Playing solo harder? Debatable! But I hear you.
Help spoken. Review all those individual commands.
You WILL encounter things in the game that will make you squirm in real life.
"Murder, Corruption, Betrayal." These things are around almost every corner and the one who does them most will eventually have it all catch up to them...
...which may well be one of the most fun moments of your game life.
Crackageddon.
Don't be afraid to get drunk, when you do get drunk actually act like you are drunk and have fun with it!
Watch and learn, young sandhopper.
Twenty deaths is a good point to start saying, "Okay. I can have a fun, fairly knowledgeable long lived character now."
Quote from: Jihelu on March 12, 2015, 07:29:46 PM
The giant turtles aren't your friends.
No they are not! (smirks)
Also don't eat the shit-berries (even though you can... just don't eat them)
Oh and if you're playing a fighter class who wants to do battle, RUN from a fight before you get below half of your health. Its a lot easier to roleplay being hurt and shrugging it off than it is to having to sleep to gain back those points.
Always haggle with PC's. I'll like you more.
Quote from: Jihelu on March 12, 2015, 07:29:46 PM
The giant turtles aren't your friends.
:D
...neither is much of anything else....
My advice?
Find a mentor who likes teaching newbs to play the game.
Leave the city gates. Run the Narrows. Hunt the exotic critters. Explore the World for all it has to offer. Die Loudly. Then, once you've got that out of your system, play a zalanthan that only does those things if and when they should.
Quote from: whitt on March 13, 2015, 09:30:13 AM
Leave the city gates. Run the Narrows. Hunt the exotic critters. Explore the World for all it has to offer. Die Loudly. Then, once you've got that out of your system, play a zalanthan that only does those things if and when they should.
After you tell your newbie that, I'll sneak in to tell him "That never gets out of your system."
Quote from: whitt on March 13, 2015, 09:30:13 AM
Leave the city gates. Run the Narrows. Hunt the exotic critters. Explore the World for all it has to offer. Die Loudly. Then, once you've got that out of your system, play a zalanthan that only does those things if and when they should.
I like to consider that a warriors death.
A dumb ones.
But a fun ones.
Quote from: Armaddict on March 12, 2015, 04:40:05 PM
Be nice on the boards as best you can. Be mean in the game as best you can.
Man, Armaddict, I want to agree with this one so hard, but I actually have account notes for being mean to "an obviously new player".
Don't worry about gear, money, they mean little.
Instead worry about RP and interaction...they mean everything.
And another, The scene is more important then the outcome.