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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Shaman" data-source="post: 5553398" data-attributes="member: 26473">Every roleplaying game doesn't need to be a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bildungsroman" target="_blank">bildungsroman</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero%27s_journey" target="_blank">hero's journey</a> affair.Adventurers may begin powerful and remain such, superhero games being the obvious example. Adventurers may also begin as experienced and competent and change only very gradually, if at all - Traveller follows this model.Of the games I've played in the last year, most of them include rules to make the adventurers at least average and often a bit better. Top Secret characters get a bump to their ability score rolls to make sure that even if you roll 01 on d% six straight times, your character is average in all abilities; Boot Hill does the same thing. In most cases, characters from both games will be above average at start, vis-à-vis an average person.Adventurers in Flashing Blades roll 3D6 in order to generate their ability scores, but the sum of all the scores must be equal to or greater than fifty-four (54) and the player may move points on a two-for-one basis to bump up a particular score. Characters may also begin with a noble title, up to and including duke (or, by house rule in <a href="http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/le-ballet-de-l-acier" target="_blank">my campaign</a>, prince), filthy rich, or with a very powerful and influential contact up to the king himself.The only game I've played in the past year without any rules for insuring the that starting adventurers are at least somewhat above the norm in terms of ability scores is OD&D.Even by-the-book 1e AD&D offers a plethora of methods for character generation which give the starting adventurers above average - often considerably above average - ability scores.In my experience, mechanical adventages relative to the average non-player character of the game-world don't detract from the adventurers distinguishing themselves by their actions, and in no way does this mean they are destined for anything.</blockquote>

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