Shattered Kingdoms

Hey all, newbie here, found this game on TMS after I left my last one. I just started playing and I'm enjoying every moment of it. I had a few questions though and I was wondering if anyone that's played a scout could help me out.

1) Does anyone know of any good trainers? I've outgrown the academy and it'd be cool if I could interact with people and advance my skills.

2) Are there any suggestions on what I should focus on first in terms of stats? It seems there's so many options here and I don't want to make my character unplayable.

3) My friend's starting out here too, he's a shaman, can anyone answer the above advice for a shaman too? Thanks!!!

I look forward to meeting all of you =)

Hey bud! Nice to have you joining us. The easiest way to get help is either using the mentor command in an inn or training academy or simply tell to another character that you can see on the who list. Tell them you are stuck in such and such place and see if they will come help you out. Try to stay in character with it. Have fun.

Fist of all, welcome to the Shattered Kingdoms!

The best way to find about trainers is Ask In Character. You can either find NPC's to help or other players provided they are experienced enough. (help mentor)

Another thing that I did while on my newbie days was reading the help files. a LOT. SK has a very solid Help System and help <anything> will work for 99.9 % of what you will want to know. Especially having something interesting to read while your character is sleeping.

I am sure that everyone will be more than willing to help you if you ask nicely and IC.

The newbie forum is a very good place to search for quick answers but from my experience the game is so much more fun when you discover it while playing.

Once again, to you and your friend, welcome to SK, we hope you enjoy your stay here.

Welcome to SK. While I may not have been able to help much last night, there are others who can. Just be persistent and keep asking around.

Good luck. Glad to have you here.

sleeper

hrm. Scout advice, is it?

Keep on trucking. The suggestions made to discover things in character is a very meaningful one.

Each city has it's own little quirks that set it apart from others - some are friendly to scouts, others not so much. (some are friendly to scouts, but have crappy materials.)

Get to know people in the game. Some of them are fairly reclusive and hard to track down, others are well-known and reliable.

You will have some trouble doing things at lower levels (like tame), but with advancement, you'll be able to compensate, and really get the most out of it.

Choose your affiliations wisely! (most advisable, remain neutral as a newbie for as long as you can!)

Enjoy!

and yes, I'm sure someone will see what I did here.

You mean other than hitting enter entirely too many times? :p

My suggestion: try to find these things IC. Don't be afraid to speak to other older players to get directions, or even ask them to take you to places. You'll find most of us always have the time for a newbie

I hope you enjoy the game

Try any major city, most have trainers for things. Also, talk to other players. They'll point you in the direction of other places to learn.



Most people avoided telling you any of this, but I am A Friendly Guy (tm), so as a GENERAL guide I'll give you "GENERAL RPG ADVICE" that you can use pretty much here (and probably d20 games, and just about any other roleplaying game I can think of):

- Strength makes you hit harder in melee. It also lets you carry more stuff, since, well, you're stronger.
- Dexterity makes you harder to hit and makes you hit more often. You PROBABLY also do more damage in ranged combat. It gave you higher reflex saves in d20.
- Constitution makes you last a hell of a lot longer. You can probably also walk farther. It gave you higher fortitude saves in d20. Out of ANY stat suggestion anyone can ever give you, I can't think of a single reason why you would not want a good amount of this stuff. It makes you die less fast. That's amazing. And take it from me, I've died a lot.
- Intelligence makes you smarter, so you could probably concentrate on more things and make you a quick learner, so you'd pick things up faster. It helps with spells.
- Wisdom makes you wiser, so you could ... I don't know. I seriously have no idea what this does other than help with spells.
- Charisma makes you more attractive to living things (no, the broom does not think you're attractive, stop trying to dance with it). This includes people and other animals (there's a hint in here, somewhere). Also, and this is actually important and everyone should know this when they make a character, your NATURAL charisma determines how much experience you get whenever you do something that gives you charisma. Having really high natural charisma means you level up damn fast.



Hard starting class, but the above stat advice applies the same for shamans. Remember that it's a shaman and they cast spells, so think if you need them to hit very hard or just need them to cast hard instead.

The other stats (move, mana, hp, and art) are a bit more one dimensional.

Training HP will only increase your HP
Training mana will only increase your ME
Training move will only increase your PE

Generally, it's better to increase the corresponding stat shown in the post above as much as you can, before using these three stats. The last one is art

Art determines how difficult it is to resist spells. For instance, you're more likely to summon someone against their will with high art than low art.

Shattered Kingdoms welcomes you
With PvP and RP too
Enjoy your stay and have some fun
For SK is the number one

lol, Erevan told me when I asked her about something OOC that pargon doesn't mean help desk.