Re: [dq-rules] DQ and newer systems

[Steven Wiles <mortdemuerte@yahoo.com>]

--- Deven Atkinson <deven@bright.net> wrote:
> The thing about DQ is that the mechanics are
> excellent AND the supporting
> materials lend themselves directly into an
> adaptation of the standard
> fantasy sword, blood, guts, magic and story.  I
> personally like the fact
> that a character can grow, and turn into someone
> that was not initially
> planned.  That wonderful assassin I rolled up needed
> to step out of the
> shadows and pick up a Falchion to survive and...
> became a Hero.

Now here's a statement that makes me want to pose a
question to the group.  Allow me to preface, though...

One of the many things about the DQ system that always
impressed me was how it allows character's to evolve
in any direction, but moreover, to -change- direction
at any time in the character's evolution.  As a
similar example to that given above, my longest
running character started his career as a white trash
thief who knew just enough pyromancy to satisfy his
occasional bouts of pyromania.  As time progressed he
became the stock combat mage.  Then, as the party and
the campaign's needs changed, he became one of the
frontline fighters in the group, well-skilled in the
use of his flaming broadsword.  He ended his career as
a Knight of Carzala.

I've gotten more of a feel of characters as organic,
living beings who change and adapt as time goes on
than in any other system.  You know, like real people
do.  I suppose this is part of its "class"-less
structure, but it also feels like more than that to
me.  What are people's experience with their
character's long-term developement, and how would they
compare it against long-term development in other
games they've played?  I don't mean just in terms of
the character's abilities, either.  I mean as a
personality, as well.  It may just be the group I
played with, but I have yet to see the same level of
character development in any other group/game as I do
in my DQ groups.  Do others feel that its just some
ineffable quality of this game that encourages rich
character development, like I do?


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