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Dead Souls LPMud Character Classes
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Originally written by Mikla and Xymox 95111
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Last Modified: 951111
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As a character on Dead Souls, your learned abilities, also known as
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skills, are determined by your class. Before you join a class, you
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have no skills and are able to do virtually nothing. It is thus
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essential that you join a class as soon as you have determined how you
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wish to play Dead Souls.
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How do you wish to play Dead Souls?
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Dead Souls can be played towards many different ends, limited only by
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your imagination. Each class is designed to fit a different playing
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philosophy and experience. For example, some people prefer pure
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"hack-n-slash" gaming. Fighters are well suited to this type of
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player. Other players, however, prefer socialization and role-playing
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over monster killing and adventuring. Fishers are ideally suited
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towards this end.
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When you join a class, you will be provided with set of skills both in
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which your class excels over others as well as which determine your
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success within your class. In addition, you gain an improved ability
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for learning, both through training and experience, those skills that are
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associated with your class.
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What you choose to do with these skills is up to you. Membership in a
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class only suggests that you have certain talents that you tend to
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specialize at or that you are simply just naturally good at. Once you
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join a class, you are a member for life, and it becomes your primary
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source of power. In the reality of Dead Souls, there are four basic
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classes of people:
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clerics, fighters, mages, thieves.
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There are help files on each of these.
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Each class has four primary skills, as well as other skills which are
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important to them. The primary skills determine your level. Level is
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simply a way to measure how good you are at your class. It does not
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serve as a method for comparing players of different classes. In
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other words, the only thing you can say about a level 10 fighter and a
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level 10 mage, is that the mage magicks as well as the fighter
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fights. It does not suggest that the fighter should be able to cast spells
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as well as the mage, nor that the mage should be able to fight as
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well as the fighter.
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