What is a guild?
A guild is an association of persons of the same trade, interests, or pursuits. You can think of it as a type of club. What that means is a group of like-minded people have decided to form a club or guild in order to communicate ideas, play games, socialize or whatever they wish. In NWN, a guild can be game-related like a Thieves Guild, or can be based in reality like The Old Timers Guild, or technical like a Guild of NWN Scripters. Just about anything can be basis of a guild. Some guilds have over a 1000 members others have 5; it really depends on what sort of guild you want to create or join.
The word “guild” is used two different ways in EQ and they have nothing to do with each other. In the game’s cities there are buildings called class guilds (the warrior guild in Kaladim, say); not every city has a guild for every class. In each guild are NPCs you interact with: one or more guildmasters where you train your character’s skills, and vendors where you can buy your spells and some other stuff. The other form of guild is player guilds, which are voluntary associations formed and managed by players themselves on each server. The name of the guild displays in the game under the character’s name, and guilds get their own private chat channels in-game and access to the Guild Hall, a special zone with amenities suited to guild-related activities. Many guilds have websites with discussion forums and schedules of group outings in the game. 3.
