THE REALM WIKI

How a hit lands

Nothing in the realm hits for a fixed number. Every blow is rolled, and then your gear takes a bite out of it before it reaches you. Two creatures of the same kind will not do the same damage twice, and a creature far below your gear will eventually do nothing at all — that is not a bug, that is what armour is for.

A monster's swing

Every creature has a softest and a hardest blow. Each swing rolls somewhere between the two, evenly. The numbers on the Monsters tab are the hardest ones.

Your armour absorbs

Everything you wear except the shield adds up into one armour value, and your level adds a little on top. Armour then eats a random slice off every physical hit — never the same slice twice, but always a meaningful one. Enough armour and a weak creature simply cannot get through: you will see a green spark instead of a number.

Your shield blocks

Your shield is judged separately, and its worth is decided mostly by your Shielding skill rather than by the shield itself. A rolled amount — anywhere from nothing to the full block — comes off after the armour. A distance weapon needs both hands, so carrying one means no shield and no block at all.

Where the numbers are

Open SKILLS in your backpack: the ARMOUR line shows exactly how much damage your gear absorbs, and the DEFENSE line how much your shield can block at your current Shielding. Both update the moment you change gear, so you can see a purchase pay for itself before you leave town.

Skills

Skills are trained by doing, not by spending anything. Every landed hit trains the skill that matches the weapon in your hand, and every blow you take trains your Shielding — even a harmless one from a training dummy.

• Melee — close weapons and bare fists. Trained on every hit that connects.
• Distance — bows and guns. Two-handed: you cannot carry a shield with one.
• Magic — wands and rods. One-handed, so a shield stays with you.
• Shielding — trained by being attacked. It decides how much your shield blocks.

Early levels come quickly and later ones take a very long time. Each level above the base adds damage to the weapon it belongs to, so a well-trained cheap weapon can out-hit an untrained expensive one.

Outfits

Your equipment is no longer drawn on you. Helmets, armour, legs, boots, weapons and shields all still carry their stats — they are simply invisible. What everyone sees is your outfit, chosen from the OUTFIT button in your backpack.

• Free — available to everyone from the start.
• VIP — wearable while your VIP pass is active. VIP covers your whole account.
• Quest — unlocked by finishing the mission it belongs to, and yours for good.

Chests & missions

Talk to the townspeople. Some of them will ask you to fetch something, and what they want is sitting in a chest somewhere out in a hunt — usually at the back of one, behind everything that lives there. Walk onto a chest to open it. A quest chest stays shut until somebody has actually asked you for what is inside, and a chest you have emptied stays empty.

If you die carrying a quest object, the chest that held it will open for you again. Nothing else in the realm gives you a second chance like that, so do not get used to it.

Dying

Death costs you experience and a share of every skill, and your backpack is lost. What you are wearing stays on you. Below level 10 you lose nothing at all, and up to level 20 you lose half. The Aura blessing, bought from Aura in the city, softens the loss and saves your backpack — and burns up doing it, once.