Tips for SluggyMARE Beginners

This document is a work in progress, and honestly beginners are the best to make it grow! After leveling a few times, it can be easy to forget how challenging the first level or two can be. As you work your way up, please augment this page with tips for our level 1-3 companions to help them on their journey.

Money

SluggyMARE uses gold pieces as its primary unit of currency. You start out with some GP to begin with and are quite likely to lose half or more of it very quickly if you don't become aquianted with the ATM's throughout the game. When you are killed by a monster, the monster will claim half of your gold - for this reason it is advisable to not carry around much money especially when new. Look at the ATM in the Cafe for help with this.

Equipment

While you can use bare hands to fight your way through the mare, you'll find even a basic weapon very helpful when starting out. You can buy weapons and armor at either the Shop in town or visit the Pawn Shop for a good deal.

Healing

After a particularily ferocious battle, you'll need healing. You'll heal and regenerate health points, magic points and endurance points wherever you are in the MARE - however you'll find certain places are better for making you feel whole again than others. The Cafe in the middle of Sluggyville is one such place. Hang out there, and you'll feel better all the quicker. You can also buy healing potions at the shops around town to revive yourself while on the run.

Once you reach your second level, you may want to invest in one of the single most important spells you'll even learn - Heal. Find your way to Hogglerynth on the other side of the park that lies west of town to enroll and learn some spells (at least Heal.)

Fighting

You advance in the MARE by fighting monsters. Regardless of what level you are, theres always something lurking out there to kick your butt in battle. A command exists to help you decide whether or not to pick a fight with any given monster, it is consider <monster> - learn it early and use it often. Your best bet for monsters to battle when first starting out is the Park to the west of town or the forest to the east.