Guild System (The Final Fantasy Legend)

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The Final Fantasy Legend used a guild system allowing the player to select from a variety of characters, each with their own strengths and flaws, making customizing a party either remove most of the challenge to the game, or adds greatly to the challenge of the game.
 * Human - They have no magical capabilities and must buy their upgrades, the main difference between the genders being that males have a higher STR stat while females have a higher AGI stat.
 * Mutants/Espers - They grow naturally and are the only ones to use magic. They also learn magic and various skills at random, but they can disappear as quickly as they come. They cannot use the stat upgrades that humans need though.
 * Monsters - You can start out as a variety of monsters, or recruit one. They do not develop by normal means, instead relying on the meat that is sometimes dropped after battle. Depending on what kind of monster the eater is and what kind of monster the meat consists of affects what the resulting monster will be.