[Doctor]

But there IS individuality, BECAUSE of the freedom on the liscence board. You can customize each character all you want, and assign them the roles YOU want them to have. From what you observe (or at least what you can get the gist of) about the character's personalities can even help you determine what you really want them to do. You can have everyone learn everything just for the benefit, but you don't really HAVE to think of it as something that's not unique enough, because you can make the experience as unique as you want to make it.

And, just as an add-on, I believe that the liscence board in FF12 is merely a step-up from FFX's sphere grid system. Wouldn't you say? =}