
Level 27 (1/22): sneeze (Makes everybody surprised).Level 25 (1/21): image lewd situations (Nothing).Level 23 (1/20): roll a die (Nothing), sing loudly (terrible voice - makes enemy flee, beautiful voice - makes enemy lose turn).Level 21 (1/18): make up a pun (Makes enemy laugh).Level 20 (1/17): become plagued by self doubt (Nothing).Level 19 (1/16): pray for peace (Nothing).Level 17 (1/15): keel over (Paralyzes Gadabout), cast some gibberish (Nothing).Level 15 (1/13): preen with mirror (F)/goose other party member(M) (Nothing).Level 13 (1/12): spin finger at monster (Confuses monster).Level 11 (1/11): tap dance (Gadabout's evasion rises).Level 9 (1/10): flick disheveled hair(F)/put on tough guy act(M) (Nothing).Level 7 (1/9): sing and dance gaily (Nothing).Level 5 (1/8): juggle stones (4~8 damage to Gadabout or monster).Level 3 (1/7): smiled serenely (Nothing), keeled over (Falls asleep).Level 1 (1/5): struck a defensive pose (Defends), just gawked at the scene(Nothing), yell for help (Nothing), run (Nothing), fell and tripped (Nothing).Every few levels, a new action is added to the list: Rather than take a gadabout from the beginning of the journey with this career advancement in mind, some players opt to instead turn an existing character in to a fop and level them up in the safety of their much stronger peers.Ī gadabout will only follow the player's instructions 75% of the time, disobeying with a randomly selected action. The gadabout is the only class that can turn into a Sage at Alltrades Abbey without the Words of Wisdom, merely needing to reach level 20 to do so. The trade-off for this is the fact that these clowns have minds of their own, and the player cannot always control their actions. This allows them to avoid the affects of debilitating spells more often than other characters. Gadabouts, originally localized as goof-offs, are pretty much useless on the battlefield, but do have a great amount of luck.

The effects are still unpredictable, however.ĭragon Quest III: The Seeds of Salvation In X, the gadabout is not as foppish as in past games and players can control their chaos by selecting when to goof off instead of at random. Quite literally a joke character, the Gadabout is poor in nearly every attribute, save for their incredible luck in III and a small style boost in VI and VII. The number of possible antics increases with their level or rank, depending on the game, with more extreme actions becoming available. Gadabouts march to the beat of their own drum, often ignoring any commands from the player for their own buffoonery that can have positive or negative impact on the party. 4 Dragon Quest VII: Fragments of the Forgotten Past.3 Dragon Quest VI: Realms of Revelation.2 Dragon Quest III: The Seeds of Salvation.
