Here is the tutorial maps HW uses. Deivatives of Deliantra's tutorial set with an expanded face changer. It has been optimized for the JXclient I believe.
The face changer is cosmetic only and only works on humanoid species.
A modification I made on my server was to make sure that no matter what, new characters went through the tutorial, In this respect it would be easier to diseminate new rule changes or features details.
There is also a way for veteran players to skip right to the face changers.
Feedback appreciated!
-titus
Minor change I made was making the doors 'randomitems none' so there's no chance a trap will go off in some new players face. You'll have to make this change in the map editor.
Doors are in tutorial part 2 and 3.
Oh there's also a few items like a healing potion and a stack of gold you probably want to make no_pick.
The various tutorials are a more extended version of Scorn's house of beginners, and could probably be added in another town (eg Navar?), instead of replacing the ones in Scorn. Note that there are some mistakes in messages that should be fixed before committing.
As for the face selector, I'm not sure we want to allow players to all those faces, that probably be discussed.