Newbie items marked with a star should be soulbound

[Dolalin]

Newbie items (no drop with a *) would reappear in your inventory if you died at low levels. This was food, water, sword, maybe tunic etc.

This post says it was level 3 or below:


8/1/99

Before, we can get free food and weapon after death if we are L3 or below.
But after the server down for an hour maintaince last night, i cannot get
food, water or dagger for my L2 NEC (in PVP server). More worse, the newbie
food, water and the dagger in the corpse disappeared.

I shout to ask any player have such problem, one answer me that his has same
problem.

Now, I advance my NEC by fight as monk, Hand to Hand is skill level 9 now.
Hehe!!

Take care, other new players! JUST DON'T DIE. It is a nightmare than lost a
bubble of XP.

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt.games.everquest/FcKcnTPvYhg/l2C1kS10v4gJ


This post confirms at level 4 it stopped:


1/20/00

There are items that are out there that once you pick them up, you cannot drop them
or give them to anyone.. Your food and drink you start the game with are like that
(weapon also). Lore means that you can only have one of those items at one time, in
your bank or with you on your character.

BTW, you eat food automatically, and cannot starve to death but you get food back up
to lvl 4 when you get nothing when you die .

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt.games.everquest/OtSEK4ieDHQ/QIOu0tUItEIJ

[Erati]

Fairly certain guild tunic robes were not Soulbound as I remember losing mine and being sad about it with an early death.

Food and drink on respawn though sounds correct, I vaguely remember someone suggesting you die a couple times to get plenty of food and drink.

[Daldaen]

I don’t recall food/drink being soulbound. I thought it refreshed you with new food and drink each death.

I seem to remember it being common advice to suicide against gate guards for new food and drink.

[Dolalin]

Might not be every item with a * then, though I would have thought so? Safe bet on the weapon and food/drink as per the above posts.

And maybe not soulbound then, simply reappears in your inv when you die.

[vossiewulf]

You didn't have to buy food and drink until level 4 or 5. First time I died here I was surprised when it didn't give me more.

And one of the primary cases it existed to handle was someone creates character, wanders around newb town, then decides to take a nap. They then wake up to an L1 character with no food or water and no money to buy any and you have to either reroll the character or have to ask if someone would be nice enough to give you a little food money.