Shattered Kingdoms

I agree with that.

Here is a scenario:

Your fighting some NPCs. Because you want to participate in the battle, you dirt/kick/trip the NPC. You get low on HP and even lower on PE...but before the last battle is over, you get poisoned. You try and sleep, but the poison does to much damage to try and sleep through. So you have no choice but to flee to a city. However, you dont' have enough PE to recall. So can you wait long enough? No, your HP is falling to quickly and PE regen is to slow. So you rush to leave. You get close to a city, your HP and PE getting really low. And two spaces from the city, you come across a relatively weak aggro NPC. You kill it, but now from the basic PE loss from having several attacks per round, you have pretty much no PE left...and your HP is falling from the poison still. Then one space from the city, you come across another aggro NPC...now your PE is gone, you only get one swing per round, so it takes forever to kill the NPC...your health is almost gone, but you can't flee cause of the lack of PE, you hope you will kill the NPC before your HP is gone, but wait, it doesn't matter, because the poison just stunned you. NPC leaves, for some reason, and you are laying there stunned. Now all you can do is wait for the next tick to kill you.

This just seems really screwed up to me. Could this have been prevented, yeah...but like others have said, how many newbies have left the game because of crap like this? Refresh potions cost a fortune to keep a steady supply. Having someone train with you all the time is unrealistic...I can live with most of these changes, if the regen rate was faster...but when it takes longer to refill my PE than my HP...something is wrong...

lol, I always thought stories like this were part of the beauty of the game. That [REDACTED] almost never happens, and it's hilarious.

Getting straight up killed by aggro NPCs on the road is more something to complain about.

While I want to make the play experience fun for newbies, I don't think the poison ability is something you will run into until the mid-levels. (Let me know if I'm wrong about that and you ran into it before Apprentice.)

When you think about it, the poison did exactly what it was supposed to do. Ultimately, I want to make the game be about solving problems. It seems to me that this was a great problem that couldn't be automatically solved and you just weren't successful this time around.

Hint: Find someone else online to ask for help at the first sign of this kind of problem. They could bring you potions to keep you alive until you recovered.

I imagine he might have gotten it by eating a body part of a thing he just slew. It's somewhat of a trick to know which parts are kosher to eat and which aren't.

Anything called kobold, of which there are plenty pre-apprentice.

Yeah you can get jacked up real quick messing with the Goblins in Teron, even at the level you are suppose to.

Doesn't some of the beasties in Exile's Sewers cause poison also?

There's two valuable lessons you can learn from this, holyflame. For one, don't eat body parts of things unless you're A) Sure they can't cause poison or B) are able to deal with the consequences afterwards.

Secondly, (And I don't consider this to be horrible IC Info to spread) there's an easy-to-get necklace from a newbie area that up until Apprentice or Journeyman refresh you on every tick, making the PE loss of combat and moving around much more negotiable. And they're cheap too! Just ask a person ICly for advice or help in training and they'll surely point you to them.

A last tip: If you ever find yourself poisoned or plagued and at a point where you feel you're not going to make it on your own, then look at the who list and ask people whose titles indicate priesthood or healing to gate to you and offer some emergency healing. Make your choices wisely, though, because while poisoned or plagued, ALL regen is slowed, including ME and PE. (Plague actually detracts from all three, while poison just slows them down)

In conclusion, feel free to ask for help ICly: We're all interested in helping out new players ICly and OOCly.

Yeah, pretty much every player has gone through the initiation of eating random creature's guts and getting poisoned until they learn what to eat.