Humanoids drop silver (as do creatures without a "family") http://uorforum.com/threads/renaissance-guide-to-slayers.1601/#post-9505
Is there a blacksmith guide you can push me in the way of?? Been years since I played this game happy I found a shard back to t2a/ uo:r
There's a few schools of thought on that. Please check out the main website. There you will find a breakdown of all skills and most of which have links to player created guides. For example... http://www.uorenaissance.com/search/blacksmith
If you go to main web site and search any profession or skill there are generally links and guides under the description
When I started here I found that the Liches are pretty badass here vs new players. They seem to cast higher circles more often than on other servers. Peace or provo dexer helps a ton. Watch/learn about mind blast and having your stats adjusted for it.
Hey there Patrick! Welcome to UOR. You have found the best era server there is. Let me know (or others, I am sure) if you need a starter silver wep so you can start deleting the legions of the undead. Its October, so that means undead spawns are going to increase, so lots of us have silver weps available. Also make sure to join IRC and get to know the community in a more real-time sense!
This is the best blacksmith guide: http://uorforum.com/threads/gming-blacksmithing-under-40k-ingots.7094/ Also, check out this post with a huge collection of guides: http://uorforum.com/threads/one-guide-to-rule-them-all-one-guide-to-find-them.682/