Category:Player's Handbook

The Player's Handbook helps you learn the game and find an answer while you play. Start with the first section if you are new; use the topic lists when you need a reference.

Start playing

1. Connect and begin the tutorial.
2. Choose a character with Quick Start or the custom path.
3. Reach Vaerlon, join a guild and save your game.
4. Learn combat, healing, food and death.
5. Find early adventures and earn silver.

The new player guides collect these pages in reading order. Type newbie <your question> to ask players for help.

Build your character

• Races and race comparison
• Backgrounds
• Main guilds, secondary guilds, racial guilds and professions
• Experience and advancement
• Skills and spells
• Divine favour and rebuilding through reincarnation
• Reinc simulator

Adventure and earn a living

• Combat basics and playing in a party
• What to do after death
• Work and trade
• Province settlements, jobs and citizenship
• Items, weapons, armour, repairs and shards
• Maps and prestigious monsters

Find help while playing

• Display, combat settings and shortcuts
• Command reference — type help <command> for its current syntax.
• topics — list the in-game help topics.
• gameinfo — read recent game changes.
• Game rules and reporting bugs, typos and ideas

Looking for the setting and its history? Read the Worldbook. The full category index follows below.