If you are using stormfront you can right click a npc and get a list of questions that npc will answer. As for maps you can get those from gswiki.play.net which is the official game wiki. Also for any questions ask us mentors at silverwood manor. You can type DIR SILVER inside town for directions. Ring the doorbell and one of us will answer the door.

Pups player

Welcome to Elanthia!

I'm still learning things about GS after 20 months. I quite agree, the learning curve is stiff.

Some things that helped me:

1. On Windows, use StormFront, not that thing that it defaults to when you enter from the web. You actually have to go hunting how to get to SF. :( If you have not found it yet, let us know, and we'll help you with that web site log on for it.

(StormFront gives you clickable underlined text that work out really well for helping you figure out what you CAN do with an object. And a bunch of other stuff.)

If you're not using Windows, there's a new wiki page for players with Macs (welcome to my world last week), start with this post: http://bit.ly/2a6zwuJ

2. Use Lich right on top of StormFront. Lich is a third-party program that overlays the SF front end with a powerful scripting interface that you can use, ignore, or create scripts with. But this is where the maps are, and all manner of quality of user-interface solutions.

3. Mentors are awesome. They will help you with so many things as you need it. Ring the bell at Silverwood Manor.

4. There are guides at the gswiki for most professions. These are helpful, just trust them. I still don't understand what half of the mechanics in the game actually mean, and it all still works out! :)

5. When someone calls out for mass spells over lich chat or the ESP amulet (amu-net, they call it) go, get spells. If you are in the Landing, Mister Dreaven does ALL the buffs and the mass spells every few hours. It's quite the thing to behold THAT much screen scroll for a higher cause!

6. Find someone in your profession that is older and wiser than you and willing to help you through the delicate parts of understanding that profession. I have 2 bard mentors (no, not from the Mentor society...) that have saved me from SO much discouragement over the months.

7. Find people your own level and hunt with them. Hunting buddies make the CHORES of hunting, advancing, and those Adventure Guild bounties much easier, and lots more fun.

8. Make fast friends with a bard. :)

9. When you get lich working, ;tune TownCrier for all the news and tips we can find, whether you are new to GS or not. (I might be a little biased about that...)

10. Ask lots of questions. I did, and found the community ever so helpful.

WELCOME to GemStone!! :)

What Luxelle said ...

... and welcome to Gemstone.

The only thing I might offer an additional thought to is ... instead of
"8. Make fast friends with a bard. :)", try being a bard.
That way lots of folks who want to be friend will find you.

Just about any of us who have been here a while will try to help, once we figure out that the player behind the character is new to the game too.


And, I think the reason Luxelle says 'make friends with a bard' is that we all are far more capable when grouped with a bard.




Clunk

(Buy your swords at CBD weapons in Zul Logoth.)

Great advice here! If you have very basic knowledge of computers, I'd HIGHLY recommend Lich.

Which city are you in? Luxie lives in Ta'Illistim, so Ta'Vaalor and Ta'Illistim are within range. We can very likely find you a suitable few characters to offer assistance in any city you can name, though!

It is not easy being a young bard. And Bard help is the ONLY kind of help I can offer. I'm pretty sure that other players I've handed off friends who need help that are Sorcerers, Rogues, Warriors, Wizards, Empaths, and Rangers ... are amused by my lack of help to the new players!

Expressive speaking is a learned thing, I fear. I have yet to learn it and I stand in awe of those whose fingertips the commands roll off of for repeating, whispering aloud, lamenting, emphasizing, etc!

My best suggestion for RolePlay interactions is to not hurry. It will seem like the pace of everything is so fast. Slow it down on your side will necessarily slow it down for everything around you, too. :)

If you want to play with the random symbols that is speech verbiage look at the help files by entering:

say
speech verbiage list

It's worth getting Lich running. There's an entire forum where people help with it that might be faster than the messages here.

http://forum.gsplayers.com/forumdisplay.php?104-The-Lich-Project

~L.

Thanks so much for the link Allereli I was looking for my post because I realized I'd forgotten to link up to the wiki!!

~L.

P.S. I made a couple miniscule little scripts that invoke the correct random punctuations in the right order for a couple of the verbiage things. When I get used to using those, I will select more candidates! After almost 2 years, I think this is the only way I'll really be able to be effective at it.

Google search for maps. I have all of Tsoran's old maps; they are still available on the web even though he took down his website. Newer areas that have opened up have been mapped by other folks. Definitely download them.

I don't use Lich myself; I have most routes to major areas memorized, and use the maps when I get there for minor route adjustments.

There are a couple of professional guilds worth joining, if you are one of those groups. Warrior and Rogue have the most fleshed put skills, although sorcerers have some useful things as well.

Warrior is probably the easiest profession to learn initially; get some heavy armor and a big stick and whack things till they die. Other professions can get a bit more complicated. There's a HUGE number of spells, combat maneuvers, guild skills and such to choose from. When you start playing a profession, go to the forums for advice from your peers on training, tactics, etc.

>I had to create another character, my last one was stuck crawling everywhere on the exterior of town, and I couldn't figure out what was going on.

no one's ever truly stuck in GS. If you're wearing a crystal amulet, rub it and THINK (message) for help, or ASSIST to talk to a gamehost if one is online (use WHO or STAT to see if one is). If no one is visibly on duty and you really like the character REPORT and GMs in the background will see it.

YELL (message) will be heard in adjoining rooms.

>>I had to create another character, my last one was stuck crawling everywhere on the exterior of town, and I couldn't figure out what was going on.

>movement
This feature is used primarily to choose a default movement style, which will be used in normal travel situations.

MOVEMENT AUTOSNEAK {on | off}
Autosneak allows you to automatically attempt to sneak from place to place while hidden. If set, this will override any default movement settings, where applicable.

Movement styles currently available to you are:
Normal
Crawl
Limp
March
Sashay
Skip
Sneak
Stride
Stumble
Trudge

Current movement style: moving normally.

As someone once posted:

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say ]]bench ::tree :soft =ask ~elven Busy?

Speaking softly in Elven to a tree, a voice behind a bench asks, "Busy?"