My own ideas and not necessarily the best but it can be used as a start.
Building A Human
As a human I would roll for an air mage, you get multi target spell before the other elements, electric shield + flames will make levelling super quick. If you use the Rolling your character questions to your advantage you can get a good start.
Early Levels
Brother Rune gives out free spells if you ask him.
Complete the errand quest to get started.
Hunt the goblin thief for some noob items you will want to get a mantle and a blessed rusted dirk as they both give an AC bonus.
Once you have these items, I would work on the Crimsonscale quest to get the spell “Wrath of the Ancients”.
You can open your welcome to Realmud package it will give you 2x Gold Doubling Orbs (30mins) and XP Orbs (15 mins). To use these double click on them.
You can access Arakas VIP free until level 21 as a taster session. Monsters drop Evil items they can be handed in for additional items, see the vip for more information about these. Monsters also drop grimoires, to sue these make sure you have the sword under your Player Tag to toggle this use Ctrl – C. Double click on the grimoire to activate the book, single use only. There are 4 levels to the grimoire red and blue increase with int, green increases with wis and yellow wis and int increase.
By level 21 make sure wis and int are both greater than 36 each for word of recall.
You can enter VIP at level 21 and stay in there as long as possible. If you are evil make sure you have completed the black market quest up to talking to Lord Suncrest the first time before this last session.