Tabula Rasa Review
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Tabula Rasa brings in something genuinely innovative to the table with clone "alts". When you start your first character and gain the needed level to specialize (or complete certain quests), you gain a clone credit. This means you can create a clone of your character at that point, and save it up as an alt. Different first name and different looks, but the same level and specialization tree point. All skill points are refunded and can be reallocated, and the clone starts with no money or gear.
Cloning at Level 5 is mostly pointless, as you can reach that level in just a couple of hours with a fresh character, but the principle is sound, removing the tediousness of replaying same low level content again just to experiment with another character. By first cloning your Soldier character just before Level 15, you end up with one Soldier that can proceed as a Commando, and another that can proceed as a Ranger - and both get a fresh clone credit at Level 15 that you can save until you are about to hit 30, so you can produce two further clones, ending up with four characters covering all the Soldier sub-types. This is a definite improvement over Everquest 2, removing the need to re-play the first couple of zones eight times over.
