When you first connect to Materia Magica you will need to first choose your character name. You can either use one of the randomly generated names or create your own. Some names will not be allowed, but with a bit of trial and error you can find yourself a name that will suit you and your character.

After this you will need to choose your Race and Class. These are very personal choices and each race and class has advantages and drawbacks, but we will not deal with them here. For this guide I have created an Elf Ranger with the name of Bateater.

This is the most important part of creating your character; this is your statistics or `stats` screen. Here you will choose your starting stats for your character. Here you should aim for a well rounded character with your primary stat (found when you choose your class, see image) quite high. The reason you want this quite high is there is a higher chance of two betters when you level if this stat is maxed. You are able to re-roll your stats 25 times before being forced to either take the last set of stats or restart the creation process.

As you can see here, we've taken the last roll for the purpose of this character. His strength is really bad, but his agility and knowledge are good and the rest of his stats are ok. Personally we would have rather had his strength at 10 at the least, but this would have caused some of the other stats to be lower.

Whatever stats you keep here are not the be all and end all for the life of your character. You will be able to train stats with either practices or manuals if you are lucky enough to find them in the game.

HARDCORE CHARACTERS: these are characters that have cheaper training costs, faster leveling, unique equipment etc., but are NOT for the novice player. They have limited lives that can be used up very quickly.

Welcome to Materia Magica, you have just created your new character and you are now ready to start adventuring. On the image to the right will be the first room you see after creating a new character.

At the top is the standard login information that you will see each time you log in. Below that is the room title and compass. Below that will be the room description and finally below that will be any mobiles (mobs), players, or items that are located in the room. Below that on the last line is your stats bar. This shows your Hit points (hp), Spell points (sp), and Stamina (st). This is where it will also display if you have mail [Mail], or if your marked away [Away], or if your in a safe room [Safe] (Safe is in bright white, but we cant display that!).