Down the left is a huge selection of sliders that affect minute changes in the face structure. There is a randomise button should you be struggling what to pick.

Two slider bars for Age (going to the maximum forces white hair) and hair colour. The skin type also defines the range of hair colour, some only allow going as dark as a light brown, others can go all the way to black. The three main options are skin, hair and beard. You can’t change the statureuild of your character but you can change a lot about your characters face. Lastly in the character creation process comes your characters looks. At the top of the page you also enter the name, I always struggle with this, I come up with Feldorn. I assign some points to balance out to the kind of character I like to play. For a more realistic game you shouldn’t be allowed to quit without saving, that way there is no going back, but they still left the option there for those who don’t like this style of play. Just before that it gives you the choice of allowing quitting without saving, I like the fact that they added this. Next up you are given the chance to further customise your character by spending a few points on the stats page. The last question asks what started the change to adventurer, I couldn’t come up with a good reason so in the end I decided on ‘The loss of a loved one’, specifically his mother.

The next question has your life change in a large way, thinking more along the lines of the military and honour aspects compared to his lowly beginnings, my character was ‘discovered’ and ended up becoming a squire no less. Next is how your early life was spent, at this point I was thinking about my characters motivation for aiming for a position as high up as Marshal, I decided that the travelling merchant father was to be killed while my character was very young, so his early life was spent as a street urchin. The first actual question revolves around your heritage, our parents have a big effect on who we grow up to be whether you have good or bad parents, my characters father was a travelling merchant. There is a good argument for heterosexual males to select a female avatar, but I’m not really worried, I opt for a male character. Speaking (typing?) of he, the first question is gender. You could look up the stat changes so that you get a balanced player, but I tried considering them the parts that make my character who he is. When you start a new character in Mount & Blade you are asked a series of questions. Having set my goal all that was left was to come up with some characterisation, it’s not needed but I am a dedicated RP’er (Roleplayer) and I like to come up with a motivation for my characters before (or while) I play them. Obligatory stupid joke out the way, it’s time to recount my adventures. This game is very painful, I now have scratches all over my backside.

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