Life Modules Options

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I am curious. What have been your overall experieces with the Life Modules system of character creation? I have found it to be the most fiddly and time-consuming of the systems, with the least amount of fine control over how a character turns out, but at the same time, it is very fun to mess around with it.

Overall, it is a balancing act. The less education or real life modules you take, the more remaining points you have to fine-tune a character. The flip side, though, is that modules get progressively more valuable - you start off getting Attributes or skills of 1, but towards the end, you can be raising a stat or skill from 5 to 6. You have to be careful, though, because getting too many life modules can mean you don't have enough Karma left for the character's remaining expenditures.

At the moment, it is better at creating some types of characters than others (wage mages get an early start with magical education, but there is not an equivalent module for, say, apprentices or acolytes). While the progression tends to reward you for taking similar modules (raising the same Attributes and skills), you have to be careful, because skill points over a rating of 7 are lost.

It can create viable characters, but they will tend to have points allocated in things you normally wouldn't pick for them. Characters tend to have lots of skills - especially knowledge skills. The negative qualities were the one thing I was least likely to keep - they make sense for their individual life module, but often conflict with subsequent ones. I usually buy them all off and get new negative qualities from scratch.

Overall, I find it enjoyable, but quirky.