6.2 Selecting a profession and changing to a new one.

Your profession is gained after serving an apprenticeship in a guild and choosing to join the guild as a full member. At that point, you will assume whichever profession that guild is associated with (see HELP PROFESSIONS). Once you have taken a profession you will be tied to it, and your skills will develop according to the specialities of your guild.

Changing profession can only be done at great personal sacrifice using the CHANGE PROFESSION command. If you choose to reject your profession you will lose all of your specialist guild skills, and the time spent learning will simply be deemed to have augmented your general skills, at three-quarters of their effectiveness. Your general skills though will not be able to progress beyond Ultimate, so it is possible to actually lose skills that would have been gained on general skills that are Ultimate or above. You will then be free to join a new guild and start afresh.