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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GMMichael" data-source="post: 8713011" data-attributes="member: 6685730">Welp, a little of both.  Actraiser 2 requires the player to become better at using the system, since there is no character advancement.  Can players get better at a DRPG?  Sure, why not?On the flip side, a player shouldn't have to, for example, shoot marbles to accomplish something in-game.  I've never shot marbles; I don't want my character's archery success to be tied to my shooting skills.  So we have the question: if the character doesn't advance, what/how much can be expected of the player to represent PC progress?Increasing difficulty could be fighting more lethal opponents.  Think: schoolyard bully or demonic knight?  It could be about locomotion: is the PC walking down a sidewalk or springing across planks in a rickety rope-bridge suspended over lava?  These are the difficulty scales that you get in Actraiser 2; some opponents move toward you slowly and die if you stab them twice.  Some have arenas that are surrounded by deadly spikes and the opponent is a demon that flies on a sentient cloud of misery that can blow you into said spikes. PC knowledge is one way to go.  Numenera touches on this: when something works in your favor, you get to knock the difficulty down by a notch when you make your roll.  So if you learn beforehand that the cloud of misery will try to blow you away at a certain point in combat, you, as a player, can decide that your character grabs onto something fixed at the right time, which could increase your odds of making the corresponding die roll without your character sheet having a growing list of bonuses for the same purpose.</blockquote>

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