A week or so ago The Chronicles of Spellborn went into open beta. This Acclaim MMORPG is, what they call, ‘freemium’ with a free to play area and the rest for subscribers. Kind of like Wizard101 except you don’t get the choice of opening up certain zones, you just have to pay for premium time. OK, so what’s the game like? You’ll have to wait to hear on that, from me at least, I just got into it! I will say the combat is third-person and action-ish, with a bit of a twist. Also, the world is pretty interesting. More on everything later.

For this post I’ll cover the character creation! Which is actually pretty decent.

Class Selection

The first set of options you see is for the class you’ll play. There are three base selections for starting out — Warrior, Rogue, Spellcaster. All of these should be pretty familiar to any MMO veteran. For those who are not, the warrior tends to wield melee weapons and heavy armors, the rogue uses a mix of melee and ranged weapons with lighter armors and the spellcaster uses spells. There are three sub-classes for each of these and you can choose which you want at level 5.

Race Selection

Next up is race selection. Included in this step is body type, facial features and tattoos. There are two races in Spellborn: the Daevi and the Humans. I can’t tell any differences yet, apart from appearance. One good point is the number of options you have for creating your character, while the base bodies probably won’t differ a lot, there are enough options to allow a wide set of character looks.

Equipment Selection

The second to last set of options is for equipment. This will be your clothing, armor and weapons. There’s several choices and you can mix and match pieces and color them how you want. It doesn’t seem that there are any differences in armor choices between the classes, so if you want a greatsword wielding, armor sporting spellcaster you can.

Finally, after all the selection you get to name your character and step into the tutorial. Enjoy!

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