Music

Ashes of Creation's Lead Composer is Bear McCreary. His music will be unveiled in Beta-1.

The Bard archetype is intended to have musical abilities.

• Bards may be able to play musical instruments, such as Flutes and Bagpipes.

• Custom music creation (using the likes of the Music Macro Language) will not be present in the game on release.

Tavern music

Music within taverns can be set by players.

Roleplaying

Backpack sockets (slots).

A big component of the MMORPG that - half of that you know acronym is RPG role-playing game. And in order to role-play you need to be able to represent kind of what your character is doing in that world and you know part of what animation is doing is creating these sockets on the let's say the belt or the back that you know can plug in certain types of props or items that are created by the character team, like Carson, you know might be a scroll tube, it might be a potion, it might be whatever: Those players will have the ability as we've discussed in the past will have the ability to select what they want to be represented in those sockets and then animation will make sure that jibe well in movement. – Steven Sharif

There are different systems that allow stories to be told in Ashes of Creation.

• Musical instruments.
• Dance.
• Easter eggs out in the world.
• Social buildings provide spaces for players to gather and tell/share stories, while also affecting the game and interacting with the world.
  • The node government system builds into this.
• Parlor games.
• Players can run a business based on role playing.

A MMO lives and breathes on its community and we don't really want to give short shrift to any one of those types. All of them are important: the RPers are important, the people who just want to hang out in the Inn and talk are important, they all add to the game and so we want to make sure that we take care of all of them... You can run a business based on RPing. – Jeffrey Bard

See also

• Bards
• Taverns
• Roleplaying