Dragonrealm

Other topics of reference:Magic in Nigeri | Empires of Nigeri

When you join Nigeri, you start at level 1. While you are at level 1, you can only use spells on the spell chart that are under the level 1 category. There's nothing too spectacular there as you can see, but hey, that's why it's level 1. I'm sure you want to get to the better stuff, huh?

Every RP post you make will gain you 5 experience points. Reaching 200 experience points will bring you up to level 2, where you'll have access to the level 2 spells. But that's going to take 40 RP posts, no easy task. There are other ways to gain experience.

Missions

Every once in a while, the admins will create a storyline with set missions. Any number of you guys can choose to take part in this story. When you do, you can choose which mission you want to undertake (multiple players can take part in any one mission). At the end of the story, we the admins will judge you based on your performance. We'll take several criteria into account when we judge you, including teamwork, story writing skills, and creativity.

You won't get to see the judging, but we will give you pointers on what we thought you did well, and what you could improve for future missions. You will then receive the amount of experience we have decided upon, which could be anywhere from 20 to 200 (or more or less, it really all depends).

The Arena

You will also notice an area we've called The Arena. What's this all about?

We have caught many monsters and trained them for the Arena. Whenever you please, you can sign yourself up for a bit of a brawl. Choose any of the monsters to fight - however, they come with level and experience recommendations to guide you. You don't want to be fighting a level 8 dragon while you're still down at level 1 or 2; you won't stand much of a chance.

Be careful here - if you lose the battle, you'll lose experience (the amount will be determined by the admin overseeing the battle). However, if you win, you'll be rewarded with experience, among other things. What you win depends on your level and your opponent's - if you defeat a dragon at level 8 when you're at level 3, you'll get a huge reward, but if you defeat the same dragon when you're at level 7, the reward won't be so good.

If you are interested in hearing more about the Arena, PM one of the admins. Remember - you can only enter the Arena once per day. If you manage to defeat all the monsters we throw at you within a certain time frame, you can be in for a bit of a surprise...

Admin Overseeing

If you reach a particularly climactic point in your story, call an admin's attention to it. That admin will pay attention to the story and, if we feel the situation has been handled especially well, we will reward you.

Admin Meddling

That's right.

At any point, in any story, an admin might jump in with an OoC remark about some event that's about to occur in the story - don't worry, these events will never change the storyline or step on its toes in any way.

It's then up to you to deal with the situation. Like above, if we feel it's been done well enough, you'll be rewarded for it.

Forbidden Spells

Due to the insane amount of power they hold, some spells simply ruin storylines, sucking the fun out of it all. As such, use of these spells are strictly forbidden:

 Raising the dead - Character death is a huge thing in a story. It loses all impact if you can simply resurrect them. If a character dies, they stay dead. Simple as that.

 Invulnerability - Resistance to certain things is fine. It adds an extra element of depth to certain things. However, you can never be invulnerable - anything that would kill you, kills you. If a dramen gets a spear to the heart, that dramen is DEAD. This includes spells that act as pseudo-invulnerability, such as instantly healing any wound, or constantly teleporting away from attacks.

 Insta-death - Combat needs to be a conflict. It needs to have tension. That's the whole point of having it. If you can just snap your fingers and destroy a dragon, not only does it make things entirely unfair, but it makes thing unfun and, to be honest, BORING AS HELL.

 Shapeshifting - The problems with shapeshifting are threefold. First of all, it defeats the purpose of the whole race system that we've taken so much time and effort to craft. Second of all, it's massively powerful - practically having the strengths of all races and none of the weaknesses, and then some. And finally, introduce shapeshifting, and all of a sudden, the whole story's about shapeshifting. We have a specially crafted race of shapeshifters - if you wanna be multiple things, go for them.

 Uber teleportation - Teleportation itself is fine. However, stories can get incredibly boring if teleportation can just get you instantly exactly where you need to go, if it can get you out of imprisonment in a snap, or out of any conflict of dangerous situation. Teleportation is fine - just keep it under control.