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<blockquote data-quote="lordabdul" data-source="post: 7914633" data-attributes="member: 6994956">Very good point, yeah. And of course it depends on each player -- I know that some of my players for instance love systems with advantages/disadvantages (like GURPS or FATE and such), because they use these traits and rolls as a support for their roleplay, but I know that some of my other players see it totally the opposite way, as something that constrains and formalizes their roleplaying performance in a &quot;crude&quot; way, and that they feel gets in the way... so I use other systems with them.But that has to do with session-by-session roleplay though. The OP was talking about character arcs over the course of multiple adventures. In many ways, systems that formalize a character's traits (&quot;who they are&quot;, as opposed to just &quot;what they can do&quot;) actually help with character arcs because they almost always include mechanics for adding/removing traits during play (like &quot;buying off&quot; your drug addiction or kleptomania or selfishness or whatever), so they effectively promote character arcs, even if they do so in a way that some players will consider as clunky or as an &quot;emotional barrier&quot;... in which case, those players tend to play with systems that don't do that, and therefore really only have the GM and other people at their table to rely on to be able to engage in a character-changing narrative arc, so you either have the right group or you don't.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="lordabdul, post: 7914633, member: 6994956"] Very good point, yeah. And of course it depends on each player -- I know that some of my players for instance love systems with advantages/disadvantages (like GURPS or FATE and such), because they use these traits and rolls as a [I]support[/I] for their roleplay, but I know that some of my other players see it totally the opposite way, as something that constrains and formalizes their roleplaying performance in a "crude" way, and that they feel gets in the way... so I use other systems with them. But that has to do with session-by-session roleplay though. The OP was talking about character arcs over the course of multiple adventures. In many ways, systems that formalize a character's traits ("who they are", as opposed to just "what they can do") actually help with character arcs because they almost always include mechanics for adding/removing traits during play (like "buying off" your drug addiction or kleptomania or selfishness or whatever), so they effectively promote character arcs, even if they do so in a way that some players will consider as clunky or as an "emotional barrier"... in which case, those players tend to play with systems that don't do that, and therefore really only have the GM and other people at their table to rely on to be able to engage in a character-changing narrative arc, so you either have the right group or you don't. [/QUOTE]

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