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Commoners are characters that have not joined a [[Guilds|guild]]. |
'''Commoners''' are characters that have not joined a [[Guilds|guild]]. All characters in [[DragonRealms]] begin their adventuring careers as Commoners. It is largely assumed that Commoners intend to join a guild, typically very soon after they are created. |
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Commoners drain all experience [[Guilds#Skill Sets|skillsets]] as if they were secondary, but all [[Guilds#Skill Sets|skillsets]] pool sizes are tertiary. |
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Commoners train all [[Guilds#Skill Sets|skillsets]] as if they were secondary. For this reason, some players will train their new characters for a while in the tertiary skillsets of the guilds that they plan to join. For example, a player who intends to start a Moon Mage character might train his/her armor skills as a commoner, knowing that the game mechanics make learning those skills more difficult once the character actually joins the guild. Unlike guilded characters, Commoners do not gain skillset perks associated with skill-secondaries (e.g., Commoners do not get to [[Forage command|<tt>FORAGE CAREFUL</tt>]] and are limited to small-sized arm-worn shields). |
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==History== |
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| ⚫ | A rash of trained |
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| ⚫ | A rash of trained Commoners sprung up around 2002 and 2003, after it was announced that the Necromancer's Guild was nearing release. Players have been told that the joining mechanics for the [[Necromancer]]'s Guild would not be startlingly different from that of other guilds, and they would therefore be able to keep their skills. As a result, many players trained Commoners in the hopes that they would have a head start among the eventual crush of new Necromancer characters. Though the delay has caused the initial surge of Commoner characters to diminish, many still keep well-trained Commoners, and recent developments with the guild have caused another surge of Commoner characters. These Commoners are sometimes called "necroCommoners." |
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The GM's originally responsible for developing the Necromancer guild are no longer on active Simu staff, so since that time it has become more or less accepted among players that the release of the Necromancer's Guild is on hold indefinitely. However, it continues to appear on the [http://www.play.net/dr/news/2007/goals.asp goals list] that the [[Gamemaster]]s release yearly. Many necrocommoners have joined other guilds or been shelved completely. |
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Although Commoners clearly lack the powers of guilded characters and are not mechanically balanced to be their equals, a rare few players have Commoner characters that remain so for the sake of role-play. |
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Latest revision as of 11:15, 29 August 2020
- Returning players may want to read the page for Returning Players before continuing.
Commoners are characters that have not joined a guild. All characters in DragonRealms begin their adventuring careers as Commoners. It is largely assumed that Commoners intend to join a guild, typically very soon after they are created.
Commoners drain all experience skillsets as if they were secondary, but all skillsets pool sizes are tertiary.
History
A rash of trained Commoners sprung up around 2002 and 2003, after it was announced that the Necromancer's Guild was nearing release. Players have been told that the joining mechanics for the Necromancer's Guild would not be startlingly different from that of other guilds, and they would therefore be able to keep their skills. As a result, many players trained Commoners in the hopes that they would have a head start among the eventual crush of new Necromancer characters. Though the delay has caused the initial surge of Commoner characters to diminish, many still keep well-trained Commoners, and recent developments with the guild have caused another surge of Commoner characters. These Commoners are sometimes called "necroCommoners."
Although Commoners clearly lack the powers of guilded characters and are not mechanically balanced to be their equals, a rare few players have Commoner characters that remain so for the sake of role-play.