I'm just started, but the balance between stamina usage and stamina restore from the food is awful. You need 1 meat soup just to move from one location IN THE TOWN to another. This alone is close to disqualify that product as a playable game and rate it 1/10.
What are you tips for dealing with stamina? Is there any easier way to gain food? I was lucky and killed 2 boars at day 1 (2?). So I get 20 meat = 10 meat soups which was enough just to come back to town. I'm starving.
I heard about different races e.t.c but I wanna play as normal (and if I can not prostitute) human in my first playthrough. Just this stamina/rest mechanics is awful.
I'm ngl, I usually recommend a slut run for noobies just so they can get used to the mechanics. But if you fr wanna do a normal run like a regular rpg-
I recommend doing the quests that are near you as others stated. The cemetery and getting dragon weeds are both pretty easy. I wouldn't worry about doing the waitress/dancer job.
The woods right outside of town can get you wood/food. Don't forget to keep everything you find to sell. Survival skill will be your best friend as others said.
You'll want to eventually get an idea of what kind of weapons you wanna use. You can do magic or melee. Spec your points into whatever you plan on using.
Don't neglect constitution. I know it's mostly for a slut run, but keeping such small stamina will hurt you in the long run.
The world difficulty does go up, but you can donate to priests during world encounters to lower it.
Keep companions with you. Cecily and gray rat are the two best in the entire game. You'll be able to recruit them for free after doing their quest. The quest becomes available after the missing caravan is completed.
Don't neglect sneak. Lona will never be strong enough to face tank everything, having 5 points in sneak will allow some missions to become a breeze. You can go further into this if you wanna do a sneak/backstab build. It's pretty strong because of the free stun.
Idk how serious you wanna take this game, but the best farming method is probably hiring a horse for 14 days then grind orkind nests and saving hostages. You can get loot+meat from doing nests. Over and over. But I would wait until you have a decent shot at doing damage. Also try doing this while the world difficulty is low. I'd say 25 or under.