I had a brief chance to create a character in the new free to play Neverwinter game.  I didn’t get far but liked character creation choices, particularly the array of race and class choices.  You can only have two character slots, which is a bummer but likely you can buy more.

Character Creation

I went with a Wood Elf Control Wizard.  I’ve traditionally preferred melee classes but I think so many dungeons under the bridge has made me appreciate a bit of distance from the monsters.

There are three servers.  I wonder if they had an idea it would end up at three servers of people once the new shiny wore off so they began that way.  I would think would be easier to add new ones than have the Cone of Shame thing of server mergers just a few months after launch.

I enjoyed picking out the skill set numbers for Intellect, Wisdom and Charisma.

You can come up into the world in quite a few locations.  Despite my desire to see the city of Neverwinter, I went with a place on the far side of the continent.  There was something in the description that made me think my character would do well to begin her adventures out in the wilds.  It may make no difference, but we shall see.

I’m not a fan of Mouselook.  You can toggle it off with Alt but that just freezes the screen so you can make choices from menus.

I picked a few things up off the beach for an npc then headed up to a camp.  Two seconds into the game some person wants to form a group.  Maybe grouping is a good thing in the game, but that early on I’m getting used to the interface and taking things in and don’t care to be dragged along by someone who may have been through this area multiple times already.

I’ll be back adventuring again soon.