[Design] Character Generation: Detail vs Opportunity Cost

[ice land]

i got that game -_-
i can get my hands on any game really -_-
player stats are important it gives the player a chance to play the game
diffrent everytime.. ethen known same role play..
like i sead look at rose online uses stats its player leveling.
but its also a role playing game (Quest`s).
-ice


>From: Lev Lafayette <lev_lafayette at yahoo.com.au>
>Reply-To: Design at mimesisrpg.com
>To: design at mimesisrpg.com
>Subject: [Design] Character Generation: Detail vs Opportunity Cost
>Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 16:42:49 -0800 (PST)
>
>
>Last night Erica and I visited Kyle's place to play
>Ars Magica. It's a game I've read and wanted to play
>for many, many years but have never had the actual
>chance.
>
>It's got great ideas. A mythic Europe, which you all
>know I like. An interesting magic system based on
>nouns and verbs and in Latin (e.g., "Creo Ignem" =
>"Create Fire"). You roleplay a troupe of characters, a
>main wizard, a couple of companions and a bunch o'
>grogs. Your group forms a covenant.
>
>All very exciting, quite inventive and after ten-plus
>years it's still a good game. But dammit, we spent the
>entire night on character generation and we're still
>not finished. It's not as if Ars Magica has a
>particularly complex character generation either.
>
>Tell you what, if I get killed in the first hour of
>actual gameplay, I'll be royally pissed!
>
>My thoughts compared this to HeroQuest/Hero Wars where
>you can walk in and say "Heortling Warrior, devotee to
>Humakt" and your character is ready. I want character
>generation to be that quick if necessary. But I don't
>want every "Heortling Warrior, devotee to Humakt" to
>be the same either.
>
>In this case the golden mean applies, I think. How
>much time should character generation take? How
>individual should a character be?
>
>One thing I've noticed. Random rolling of
>characteristics can often be faster than players
>having to choose stats and traits!
>
>
>
>Lev Lafayette
>lev_lafayette at yahoo.com.au
>http://au.geocities.com/lev_lafayette
>
>
>
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