Game concepts (General Help)

This help file is a short summary of all help topics in the 'general help' category. These are the things you should be generally aware of when playing The Two Towers:

• helpers - Helpers, or Newbiehelpers, are players who have volunteered to spend extra time helping new players get familiar with the game.
• hints - How the in-game hints are structured and how they work.
• experience - Your point reward for fighting.
• alignment - Your perceived "goodness" (or "evilness").
• levels, levelling, level quests, highlevels - Requirements for and detailed description on how to advance your character.
• skills, skills2, skills3 - Description of available character skills.
• stats - Your physical and mental attributes.
• hitpoints, endurance - Also known as HP and EP, your current health.
• age - What do we understand by "character age".
• services - What useful places you can find in most towns.
• speedwalking - How to travel faster.
• combat - Quick description of the combat system.
• pvp system - How fighting other player-characters works.
• death - What happens when you die.
• encumbrance - How much you can carry before you become too encumbered.
• drunkenness - How does being drunk affect the gameplay.
• spellcasting - How spellcasting works in Arda.
• tongues - Description of different spoken languages in Arda.
• sight - What happens when you cannot see.
• channels - Channels, or comms, are the communication lines with other players.
• abbreviations - Common abbreviations used by the MUD players in tells and on comms.
• parties - How to adventure together with other players.
• semotes - Detailed description of the soul emote system.
• idle, lag, linkdead - How your connection can affect the gameplay.
• reboots, portals - Information about the cyclical "reboot" of the game world.
• respawn - Information about quests and areas resetting.
• surnames, titles - Some options to customize your character.
• autoloads - Information about items that stay with you when you quit.
• unique - Information about special, powerful items in Arda.
• namechange, racechange - Details of special one-time changes you can make to your character.
• mud alignment, regions - A system of global messages roughly representing what NPCs get killed more in the MUD: the good ones or the evil ones.
• serving - Details of the serving system, allowing members of the Free Races to betray their side and collaborate with Sauron's forces.
• maps - Information on where to find detailed maps of Arda.