Tabula Rasa Preview

The folks at GamingExcellence are offering up a short preview of NCsoft and Destination Games' sci-fi MMORPG, Tabula Rasa.
Massively multiplayer online games used to involve spending hundreds of hours building up a fantasy-based character only to find out that the choices you made have a negative impact on your current gameplay, causing you to die repeatedly and lose experience, gold, items, your own sanity or other valuables. Well, it appears that this could also be a thing of the past with Tabula Rasa. Not only are the penalties for death almost non-existent, but in another extremely innovative decision, players no longer choose their character class from the beginning of the game, instead making choices later on. With this comes the fact that Tabula Rasa has a system allowing players to save templates of their characters as they progress and clone them to re-play the game with different choices, eliminating the unnecessary time spent creating and building up a new character when things go wrong.