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Old 04-21-2006, 08:36 AM   #8
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We just gave people three character slots and allowed them to reroll their characters at will. Unless you enjoy playing the same character in every game you try, it's impossible to know which race fits you best without actually playing. We encouraged players to roll up a human (since most people know how to be human already) and try the game for a few days before deciding what character they really wanted to play.

Now, that's from the role-player's perspective, which was most important to us. But I realize that in lots of games race plays a large part in how well you do with skills in certain classes, etc. To me it's just logical to let people play a bit to learn about the game and then make it easy for them to delete their characters and recreate them how they really want. Changing race mid-stream wasn't an option for us. Joe Dwarf showing up as Joe Elf two days later wouldn't have fit the atmosphere of consistent RP we were trying to establish.

Multiple slots helped some as well. It allowed experimentation with several character configurations without necessitating reroll of what you'd accomplished.
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