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[Steven Wiles <mortdemuerte@yahoo.com>]

--- davis john <jrd123@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> i think this is also a weakness of the system in
> that given enough time 
> every character is pretty much the same..everyone
> has similar combat, spell, 
> social etc capability give or take a little bit. 
> Guess thats one bad issue 
> of a  'class/order/occupation less' system.
> 
> John

I wondered that myself when I first looked at the
system.  However, I never really noticed that
happening in my groups.  Now, we all diversified a
bit.  Everyone had some weapons they were good at,
some skill, and a lot of us were mages.  However,
everyone also had their specialty and their niche in
the group.

Part of that, I think, is built in.  The division
between non-mage and mage tends to stick, since
someone who starts a fighter tends to give their MA a
5 and someone who starts a mage is commensurely less
physically gifted.  Among mages, specialization is
maintained by the College system.  We were also real
strict with the "you use to use a skill/spell/weapon
during the campaign (at least once) to Rank it after"
rule.  That kept people on the straight and narrow,
once they had invested Ranks in certain things
already.

You see much the same thing in D&D 3rd ed.  Most
people end up taking two or three levels in an
off-class, but mostly they stick to one class.  As a
friend of mine found out, being a 5th level Cleric and
a 5th level Ranger in a 10th level party means your
really just 5th level.  In a 10th level party.

Everyone in my old DQ group had a pretty distinctive
character, even as we hit Hero level.  However, I've
never played in a really "high level" campaign with
DQ.  I could see the homogenization thing being a more
serious problem once characters are getting such high
XP awards.  It would be comparitively easy to increase
stats, etc.  Does anyone have experience with this
type of campaign?

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