After playing here for a year and making every possible mistake there is to make on this server, I feel like I am qualified to hand down some wisdom.

1. Turn your graphics settings in NWN to the fastest possible speed - I have a 3.0 GHz dual-core with gobs of RAM and the latest, greatest video card, but I keep all the bells and whistles turned off. I want the only bottleneck between my mouse finger and the EfU server to be the internet tubes. It's not as pretty, but we're all using our imaginations here anyway, right?

The benefit: I can participate in combat with 30 other players in the same area. 'Nuff said.

2. Never play EfU unless you've had plenty of sleep and are in a good mood - One of the wisest people I know once told me, "Just get to work every day on time and in a good mood, and everything else falls into place." It's just as true for work as it is for play.

The benefit: In addition to making you a better role-player, a good mood helps you live longer. It does not make you immune to stupid decisions, but it does give you at least a +4 will save vs. foolishness.

3. Death is caused by players, not characters - If you die, it's not because you have a weak character build, it's because you aren't playing your build correctly. You did something dumb, and now you want to take it out on your character. Resist the temptation to go permadead, suck it up, roleplay a near-death experience and just respawn. Everyone else does it.

The benefit: Your character can last long enough to form the kinds of in-game relationships that will keep them alive and happy. This cannot be emphasized enough. No one character can survive alone. Your low-charisma min/max solo character is a dead man walking.

4. You're only as tough as your last level - If you're level 6, you're really level 5. If you think you are really level 6, just go out and act like it, and you will quickly be proven wrong.

The benefit: Not only do you exercise the proper degree of caution by thinking like this, you are also adequately mentally cushioned from the next thing that gets you killed. Check that, almost killed.

5. A good death is the best thing you can hope for - Your character will not last forever, and neither will EfU. Nothing here is saved for posterity. There are no leaderboards, and there is no Hall of Fame. The best possible outcome, actual escape from the Underdark, ends the life of your character on this server. You're just here to have fun.

The benefit: This one ought to explain itself.

last time i check when i was lvl 6... i sure was lvl 6 <_<

i do like number three because i see people die all the time and blaming DMs and players when really it was their own greed that got them killed!!

use your items thats what they are there for!!!

putrid_plum last time i check when i was lvl 6... i sure was lvl 6 <_<

I like these tips. Number One, I don't think I'll personally use, because I don't like the etch-a-sketch boobies you get with graphics turned low.

Number four, I have to agree with completely, and I wish so much that somebody had told me that earlier on. It's pretty much the reason why I can never manage to get past Level 6. I make Level 7, and then suddenly think I'm invincible, which gets me killed.

And Number 5, also, complete agreement. The only thing better than dying to a good death is dying to a good death -after- you've accomplished everything you want to with a character. The DMs have said since the beginning that one should always start a character with an ending in mind.

With Cail, I knew from the beginning he was either going to permadie to Orogs, or to some kind of a riot which he inadvertently caused. With Gibbon, I always intended for him to die fighting the lizardfolk of Sslal'teesh.

PlayerCharacter 2. Never play EfU unless you've had plenty of sleep and are in a good mood - One of the wisest people I know once told me, "Just get to work every day on time and in a good mood, and everything else falls into place." It's just as true for work as it is for play.

But then again, 75% were killed by Anthee; Maybe that has something to do with it.

I'd like to add, Don't play EfU while intoxicated.

I've done this, and hell, although it was funny dying three times in a row at the time. Waking up in the morning and finding your character totally naked and four levels lower than when you remember last wasn't.

2. Never play EfU unless you've had plenty of sleep and are in a good mood - One of the wisest people I know once told me, "Just get to work every day on time and in a good mood, and everything else falls into place." It's just as true for work as it is for play.

By far the most important rule of them all. Remember folks, this is a game and its meant to be fun.

Don't play while overly distracted by something else. How many times have people seen me die and heard me say "oh sorry, Family Guy distracted me." or "Sorry, the cat fell in the fish tank." or the common "Sorry, the puppy made a mess on the carpet I had to clean up."

Don't charge into huge groups of monsters just for the hell of it. Although, it's incredibly epic!

Oh oh and to echo a sentiment expressed by Howland aaaages ago :

USE YOUR SUPPLIES.

A potion of bulls strength is no use to you if you're dead!

Except, well, nobody ever listens to me, or these threads, ever (though I wish they would!)

Happy.

Nuclear Catastrophe Oh oh and to echo a sentiment expressed by Howland aaaages ago :

USE YOUR SUPPLIES.

A potion of bulls strength is no use to you if you're dead!

Except, well, nobody ever listens to me, or these threads, ever (though I wish they would!)

Happy.

I do, and it saved my dwarf's arse twice. Listen to them guys and gals, this stuff works!

You can't make me play sober, you bastard!

How else will I get into character? : (

Nuclear Catastrophe Oh oh and to echo a sentiment expressed by Howland aaaages ago :

USE YOUR SUPPLIES.

A potion of bulls strength is no use to you if you're dead!

My problem is that although I often intend to do this, when it comes down to the heat of the moment, I tend to panic and my well prepared quickslots appear to be just a mass of confusing buttons!

I would love to make enough coin to buy potions to use them. I barely scrape enough together for a few before a quest, use them up, then buy more with any gold I get.

x) Learn how to make money so you can buy potions, better armor, and bodyguards.

I agree with all of these rules. And Ruza, ignore the puppy, it only wants attention, (Like my cat when he vomits on the kitchen floor and mom has to pick it up since I didn't -see- it. :twisted: )