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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Barastrondo" data-source="post: 5046507" data-attributes="member: 3820">There's advancement, and then there's advancement. Consider a game like HERO, where your overall offensive prowess might see a gradual uptick, such as in a game where there are caps on damage, defenses and the like — but where you branch out and pick up more tricks, more skills, better-rounded attributes, and so on. Characters grow by branching out, not by climbing a ladder. Social and personal advancement also might not have anything to do with mechanics. The "peasant marries the king's daughter" fairy tale might not have a thing to do with experience points; it's just a dramatic amount of social advancement. Similarly, there's the character who gradually heals a broken heart, or the character who finds renewed purpose when he adopts a child, or the character who comes to realize he hates his family and always has. Dude to badass might not be a dramatic uptick in power. However, that's not really a measurement of how much a character may have advanced in that time. Robin Hood's story isn't about how he goes from barely able to hold a bow to best shot in England — he's an excellent shot from the first. His first dramatic advancement instead comes he challenges a big guy to a stick-fight over a stream. And loses.</blockquote>