Like D&D and indeed many games over the years, Dragon Age is a class and level system. Like the computer game, the RPG features three classes: mage, rogue, and warrior. It’s different in many ways. It uses six-sided dice only, it uses a spell point system instead of Vancian magic, and it has no alignment system for starters.
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So the computer game and the tabletop game share certain core conceits, but from the beginning BioWare understood that our game couldn’t just be a transliteration of theirs. The lead designer told me straight up that I wouldn’t want to use their resolution system, for example. So you’ll see the same spells and classes, but you shouldn’t assume that everything is just like it is in Dragon Age: Origins.​