Character class

A character class represents a character's archetype and career in some role-playing games. Usually, players choose their class when they create their character and may not completely part from that class during the life of that character.

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Character - Archetype - Career - Role-playing game

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Dungeons & Dragons introduced the usage of classes, and they are now found in all games which use the d20 system. They are also found in many Computer RPGs. D&D also provided a set of four classes that many players consider prototypical among games with classes: fighter (combat-based abilities, but almost non-existent magic), thief (in non-fantasy games) or Rogue (in medieval circumstances) (with stealth- and socialization-based abilities), magic user (powerful magical abilities, but physically weak), and cleric (healing and supportive magical abilities, and minor combat abilities). Non-fantasy role-playing games often fill the place of the magic-user with psychic- or scientist-like classes, and the cleric (healing class) with a medic or similarly supportive role.

Related Topics:
Dungeons & Dragons - D20 system - Computer RPG - Fighter - Thief - Rogue - Magic user - Cleric - Fantasy - Psychic - Scientist - Medic

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