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Originally, I was just making a web site to make trade skills easier, but I know there are a lot of roleplayers scattered across the servers who are interested in more than just skills. There are also a couple tips in here that may make life easier for the true "newbies" among us. Unfortunately, this section is not edited/updated very often, as it's rather low on my priority list. Character description -- Random hunting hints -- RP guilds -- Language Lessons While I personally dislike all the folks who walk up without a word and start inspecting my equipment (I feel like there's a bunch of peeping toms staring down my bodice), there is a way to add to the eyeful folks get when they do that. For those of you who don't mind the folks who spam-inspect you, and then harass you trying to buy the clothes off your back, it's a good spot to put any info about yourself that you want to share. Take a good long look at yourself from an external view (i.e., press the f9 key a time or two, so you can see yourself on your screen). Right click on yourself, and it should bring up a picture of you, with a blank area below it. Type in a brief character history (or whatever you prefer) that will show when anyone looks at your equipment. ("If you're done staring, kindly remove your eyeball from my bodice" was one of the ones I heard of that got a giggle out of me.) "Hail a sand giant" - By now, if you've done much group hunting, you've probably hear this one, however, here's some RP justification/explanation for it. Your group just got done beating on something nasty, and most of the spellcasters are busy meditating. Something nasty comes over the hill, and you need to get out a timely warning before it stomps on your party. You can try, "Guys, look out, there's a ..." followed by the sounds of one or more party members getting blindsided. There's a faster way to warn, them, however, to make up for the time that it's slower to type a warning than it is to physically say it. Target the critter and hit the "h" key to hail it. Think of this as the RP equivalent of pointing at it and blurting a warning. Once you've hailed it, then you can give more accurate information about where it is and who is in danger ... as you yourself either backpedal out of it's path, or move to defend your group's spellcasters. For those of you busy meditating with your noses in your spellbooks, if you hear someone hail a nasty critter, get your nose out of that book and be ready to move or fight. It might just save your life and the lives of those with you. Corpse fetching - You died somewhere you should not have been ... again. And, well, you would die ... again ... if you tried to loot your body in that particular spot. If you're unable to become invisible, or you died somewhere that creatures can see through invisible, then get yourself, and a couple bodyguards into the general area where you died. Then carefully edge your way closer to your body, trying a /corpse every step or two. The moment the command works, BACK up many steps, and /corpse again. Repeat this process until you've got your body somewhere that is a little safer. Think of this as the RP equivalent of grabbing your corpse and dragging it to somewhere you can loot it in safety. You have to get close to it to "grab" it, and can only drag in tiny spurts because, well, have you ever tried dragging something that is as heavy, or heavier (due to gear) than yourself? Not a fun process for distance-dragging, is it? You can also do this with other people's corpses as well, as long as they have given you /consent. It helps to have /corpse pre-mapped to a socials button in advance, to speed up the dragging process.
All the races, other than human, know at least one language other than Common Tongue when they start out. You can learn other languages as you go along, both for the pure fun of it, and for things like reading odd books in various languages (several of the poison tomes, spell research books, etc. are written in other languages.). There are two main ways to learn other languages, and you can intermix them.
This second method is a great way for a group to pass 10 or 15 minutes while they are waiting for someone or something to happen. Make sure you are grouped, and in close physical proximity to each other. Each member of the party should change their language to something that at least 1 other in the group does not know, or knows to a much lesser degree than you. (/lang #, where "#" is a language number from your list changes your spoken language to that language. A full listing of the languages that you know and can attempt to speak can be found by using /lang help) Then go to your socials menu and program up some macros for language lessons. Due to the potential lag issues caused by "spamming" lots of text quickly, it's recommended that you use either single-letter lines of text or program in some pauses. Party members can also turn off groupsay in the chat filter so that they don't see all the language spam, but only the skill improvment messages ("Your language skills have improved"). However, if folks have groupspeak off, remember to work out signals in advance for getting everyone else's attention so they remember to turn it back on when you're done. With the /lang command making it easier to quickly change languages, you can also use macros to change languages, send some text, and change languages back again, so you don't forget to switch back to Common later on. Example social text
Put that socials button onto one of your hotkeys that is currently unused. Turn off group say (in your chat filter section of the options menu) so that you don't see the spam that the others are saying, only the skill increases and your own babble. Remember to turn group say back on in the chat filters when you're done with the lesson. Take a deep breath, and then everyone begin babbling at once, via the hotkeys, in the various languages. (This is called "spamming") Have one person ready to switch back to Common (/lang 1) at the drop of a hat and spam "HOLD!" in normal say until everyone stops if there is danger approaching (alternately, have someone jump up and down or do some other action to get people's attention). At random times, you will see a message flash across your screen that says "Your language skills have improved." However, you won't see those improvements on your skill list until you zone or log off and back on. You also will be unable to teach anyone else your newly-learned language skills until you have zoned or camped. It's amazing how quickly you can become very multilingual, with a few good friends from other races to assist you. If you cannot find someone who is excellent in a given language, you and a friend can slowly skill up in the language, as long as it is offered by a trainer. One of you put 1 skill point into the language. Then spam the other person using that language until they see TWO "Your language skills have improved." messages (you can train them to 1 point above your current skill). Zone. Have the person who just got the two skill increases spam the language back, until the first person gets two increases. Zone. Rinse. Repeat.
The current languages available in-game are:
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