If you've been following the development of Tabula Rasa, the upcoming massively multiplayer game from NCSoft's Austin studio, you'll know that the team had been taking an experimental approach to its development, to say the least. Unlike most standard massively multiplayer games that usually put you in the role of some sort of elf wizard who repeatedly kills rats and skeletons until you race through all the game's experience levels, last year's E3 demonstration featured some genuinely wild stuff, like techno-bard characters that attacked their enemies with swirling verses of poetry. That kind of thing is gone now, though the new Tabula Rasa retains some of the innovative features that were shown last year.