Character Creation Checklist

[vladthemad]

On page 5 of the original Core Rule Book there is a gray boxed area providing a Character Generation Checklist. Why was this removed from the new edition? We constantly referred to it during character creation.

 

[TrippyHippy]

The short answer is that it's been replaced by the flow chart. How effective this is makes the point of debate of course.

Personally, I always found the check list a bit too fiddly in it's details. I'd prefer about five stages incorporating relative details myself.

 

[Cugel]

The short answer is that it's been replaced by the flow chart. How effective this is makes the point of debate of course.

Personally, I always found the check list a bit too fiddly in it's details. I'd prefer about five stages incorporating relative details myself.

I keep this in my head, but it would be good to have it on a smaller checklist or flow chart:
1) Roll skill for career.
2) Roll survival.
3) Roll event.
4) Roll advancement.

 

[vladthemad]

The short answer is that it's been replaced by the flow chart. How effective this is makes the point of debate of course.

Personally, I always found the check list a bit too fiddly in it's details. I'd prefer about five stages incorporating relative details myself.

I was afraid of that. I'm not at all a fan of that current flow chart. It would be nice to have both, but if the flowchart is cleaned up and made a lot easier on the eyes, it would be an acceptable alternative.

 

[mlooney]

The short answer is that it's been replaced by the flow chart. How effective this is makes the point of debate of course.

Personally, I always found the check list a bit too fiddly in it's details. I'd prefer about five stages incorporating relative details myself.

I was afraid of that. I'm not at all a fan of that current flow chart. It would be nice to have both, but if the flowchart is cleaned up and made a lot easier on the eyes, it would be an acceptable alternative.

Yeah. The OCD programmer in my really doesn't like the "non standard" flow chart system used on it.

 

[MongooseMatt]

We are looking at the flow chart. We are also going to see if we can 'box out' a mini-check list on the same page spread, giving you the option.

 

[Cugel]

We are also going to see if we can 'box out' a mini-check list on the same page spread, giving you the option.

Please!

 

[Vile]

I think one has to be really careful to make flow charts immediately and intuitively obvious, otherwise they can be self-defeating. The idea, after all, is that you sacrifice space in order to provide a faster-to-use reference than the text.

At the moment I find the text faster, so I reckon the flow chart needs re-working or possibly replacing with a simple checklist. I personally wouldn't use the space for both, just whichever one is the most effective.

 

[Cugel]

At the moment I find the text faster, so I reckon the flow chart needs re-working or possibly replacing with a simple checklist. I personally wouldn't use the space for both, just whichever one is the most effective.

Could not agree more, and one vote for the checklist as more effective: it'll allow you to recover two pages for something more essential.

 

[Old Scrounger]

The flow chart is a muddled mess. A check list is easy to understand. I gave both to a group of new players to ask if they could follow it and they couldn't follow the flow chart at all.