Industrial Scribe

I Think Dragon and Dungeon magazine were taken out back & shot. Then the Zombie Magazine that calls itself "White Dwarf" Danced on its corpse... I wish there was a decent magazine that covered everything like the early Dragons & White Dwarfs. The covers and artwork was just great.

Again I'm not trying to support a hand holding, one size fits all character creation. Just trying to see what people enjoy about different games. Think of it more as an attempt to make the deep complex version of character creation something that everybody will want to do and not just a glorified filling in of the back of a beer mat with a note about how you really like swords the best. Also I want these choices to matter and be represented in the story. If you want me to pick a favourite colour or an evil childhood nemesis it better appear in the game.

I'm not really focusing on Story rail roading or conversation options, more on the feeling of the act of Character creation and if some people can come up with a system that is both intuitive & highly customisable. When I talk of Mass Effect it is purely to state what I thought was done right about it not to be a Bioware Cheerleader Yes we could of been given more options but the way it dealt with the limited hand of cards a player was presented with was well done in my opinion.

So I got to thinking about Character Creation and how different games have handled it. One of the most enjoyable times I ever created a Character was Mass Effect 1. Even though it was basically a step-by-step progression Character sheet the trappings used in its construction allowed you to either play straight away as Sheploo or build your own Shepard without a jaringly different experience for the self created avatar. The failing computer records system (That occurred when you Generated your own Shepard) felt just as much a part of the story as the plot that followed. (This was lost a bit in ME2 & ME3, in fact Character import being broke was a major negative) It was neither to confusing or sparse in appearance and the music was a dream. The different themes really thrust you into the story and your Origin choice had a real game effect in the tone setting of the opening sequence. This was enough for me to still love the game even after the A,B,C pick a colour ending and RUSH JOB that was ME3 that made me spit bullets. What do people want to see (or don't want to see) when sorting out an Avatar to play P.E. [Answers on the back of a postcard ]

Red 5 Reportin.... Oh I mean Industrial Scribe *Cheesecake of the Obsidian Order* but with only 40 characters it's just "Industrial *Obsidian Order* Scribe" on the kickstarter project