What tips for new players vs experienced ones?

[tortle]

New Players

If you're a new player, don't worry so much about avoiding combats, focus more on avoiding instant death.
Book 1 is the exception.

If you are playing New order; Kai-Alchemy, Assimilance, Grand Huntmastery, and Elementalism are generally handy for this purpose.

Experienced Players

If you're doing a new playthrough avoid the first 3 books, they should be considered "training wheels" because of the items that they provide.
Book 4 is a really fun place to start.

[Ofecks]

New Players:
- Start with book 1, if possible.
- Use a 1d10 instead of the RNT.
- Take Sixth Sense and Healing.
- Book 1: consult the map often and never venture away from your destination.
- Book 2: Take Animal Kinship and make sure to get to Ragadorn with 22+ crowns.
- Book 4: be very, very cautious of your surroundings.
- Grey Star book 1: don't even bother playing a character with less than 15 CS.

Experienced:
- Hoard consumable (Alether, Laumspur, etc) items for books 9-12.
- Weaponmastery, Huntmastery, and Nexus is an ideal starting combo for book 6. Replace Nexus with Curing if starting a fresh character there.
- Book 6: win the archery tournament. Bring an Alether and use Psi-surge if you have to.
- Book 8: skip Tharro. The Grey Crystal Ring isn't worth the danger.
- Book 10: avoid Cetza and the Isle of Ghosts if you have the Sommerswerd.
- Grand Master: the new disciplines, Kai-Alchemy and Magi-Magic, are incredibly useful, although usually situations in which they come up will ask for either. MM can skip a nasty (and otherwise mandatory) boss fight in book 14.
- New Order: Valiance is probably the most useful Kai weapon.

I could probably spend all day writing these.