I know that you control a gang of up to five characters. There are six races and 15 professions to chose from when creating your characters. Of course, race and profession are only two parts of the character creation system. For example, you can customize each character's portrait in the game - right now there are over six million possible portraits in the game. We wanted the characters to be as customizable as possible without sacrificing game balance and game play.
Character development is based on experience.
So it is, in a sense, level-based. However, how you earn those experience points depends on the actions you take, like using skills, so in a sense it's also skilled-based. We wanted to keep the skill system fairly simple. Without going into too many details, we have five skills in the game right now. Each skill is separate and distinct, but they are designed to work together.