- Choose house - Allocate characteristics - Choose virtues & flaws - Allocate XP to abilities - Allocate XP to arts/spells - Add flavour (background, sigil, appearance, etc - based on the above)
Not much different from:
- Roll stats - Choose Service - Decide whether to go for pre-enlistment - Roll for survival etc - Choose skill tables and roll on them - Decide on detail of skills, and whether to re-enlist - Muster out
Or
- Choose class - Roll/allocate stats & HP - Track down all your race/class specials - Choose feats - Allocate points to skills - Choose spells - Add flavour (if desired)
I think the main difference is that virtues and flaws allow for a much richer variation between characters than most systems give you, so you want to think about it a bit more.
I like the idea of reviewing Christmas. I was waiting to see your star rating out of five, and the bit where it said "Customers who liked this Christmas also liked..."
I fancy trying to keyboard on Rock Band 3. I do play the piano, so it will be interesting to see how it translates. I'll wait for it to come down in price a bit, though. Plus, we've just ordered various Guitar Heroes for XBox, so we can play all the old songs on sensible guitars not those horrid little old Playstation ones, so I've got loads and loads of unlocking ahead of me.
I like Ars Magica character generation. I takes quite a bit of thought, yes, but I feel that I emerged from it with a living, breathing character who I could reasonably hope to roleplay, and not just a collection of stats. Though maybe that's just because I created him myself. Other characters - Traveller, Game of Thrones etc - have been created for me, which makes a difference, I think.
You had a lot of input into the AGOT one, though :-) And given that you tend to ignore the stats on the sheet, I'm not sure what there is about the character that you didn't create ;-)
We have a keytar and, assuming it's interface is the same as for the full keyboard (and that the interface doesn't suddenly change if you move up to hard or expert) then it's not all that much like playing a piano, I find. You only ever play up to ten white notes so I find I tend to position my hands on the keyboard so that my fingers each cover one white note each and then just move them slightly as appropriate to hit the black notes. Your hands basically never move from the spot (no arpeggios or similar). Obviously, given the interface, organising fingering would be a nightmare so I can see why they've done it that way but I do find the immobility of my hands feels very different from actually playing the piano.
That said, if you were playing a piano piece which only used 10 white notes then it would, indeed, be exactly the same.
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Pen - that would totally have put me off buying from that shop too. What you really ought to do is go in some time and wave your new Conway Stewart around and say "You refused to wait on me. Big mistake. Huge." a la Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman :-)
...and all right, I'm still wondering about Una Stubbs...
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Always sad when companies like that go under. Possibly taking irreplacable pen making knowledge with them.
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- Choose house
- Allocate characteristics
- Choose virtues & flaws
- Allocate XP to abilities
- Allocate XP to arts/spells
- Add flavour (background, sigil, appearance, etc - based on the above)
Not much different from:
- Roll stats
- Choose Service
- Decide whether to go for pre-enlistment
- Roll for survival etc
- Choose skill tables and roll on them
- Decide on detail of skills, and whether to re-enlist
- Muster out
Or
- Choose class
- Roll/allocate stats & HP
- Track down all your race/class specials
- Choose feats
- Allocate points to skills
- Choose spells
- Add flavour (if desired)
I think the main difference is that virtues and flaws allow for a much richer variation between characters than most systems give you, so you want to think about it a bit more.
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I fancy trying to keyboard on Rock Band 3. I do play the piano, so it will be interesting to see how it translates. I'll wait for it to come down in price a bit, though. Plus, we've just ordered various Guitar Heroes for XBox, so we can play all the old songs on sensible guitars not those horrid little old Playstation ones, so I've got loads and loads of unlocking ahead of me.
I like Ars Magica character generation. I takes quite a bit of thought, yes, but I feel that I emerged from it with a living, breathing character who I could reasonably hope to roleplay, and not just a collection of stats. Though maybe that's just because I created him myself. Other characters - Traveller, Game of Thrones etc - have been created for me, which makes a difference, I think.
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That said, if you were playing a piano piece which only used 10 white notes then it would, indeed, be exactly the same.
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Pen - that would totally have put me off buying from that shop too. What you really ought to do is go in some time and wave your new Conway Stewart around and say "You refused to wait on me. Big mistake. Huge." a la Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman :-)
...and all right, I'm still wondering about Una Stubbs...
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