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Anonymous04/22/26, 20:46No.3971165
>Fighter
>Mage
>Thief
This is all you need for an rpg; anything more is just bloat.
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Anon04/22/26, 20:47No.3971166
Ackshually, it was "Fighting Man", "Magic User" and "Cleric".
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Anon04/22/26, 21:18No.3971185
>Sword
>Board
This is all you need; anything else is bloat.
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Anon04/22/26, 21:30No.3971197
Fighter
Cleric
Mage
Is the truth in encapsuled the very essence of being a man:
>Fighter
The essence of strength itself to improve oneself
>Mage
The power of mind to think and preserve
>Cleric
The power of faith and to endure any trail you may face>Thief
Pussy shit
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Anon04/22/26, 22:33No.3971227
>white male two handed fighter
rest if bloat
wizards are evil btw
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Anon04/22/26, 23:28No.3971265
Actually, you just need "Hero"
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Anon04/22/26, 23:38No.3971275
Thief is unnecessary, and only exists because common sense skills were arbitrarily ripped from everyone else.Lemme guess, you want magic, reality bending butter knives that ignore armor, and spindly, scrawny fucks using bows, too?
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Anon04/22/26, 23:55No.3971296
A fighter that doesn't carry a bow, a two hander, a blunt weapon, and a sword and board is a fake fighter.
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Anon04/22/26, 23:59No.3971300
>tfw no Kineticist or Bloodrager
But I'm SPECIAL! I need a special class!
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Anon04/24/26, 19:58No.3972608
styled contrarian in hopes it will make you an intersting person.
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Anon04/24/26, 20:20No.3972623
>>Fighter
>>Mage
>>Thiefneed a heal slut priestess to suck my RPG(really perky gonads)
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Anon04/25/26, 01:11No.3972829
>Fighter/Mage
>Gish
>Spellblade
>Spellsword
>Magus
>Bladesinger
>Mysic Knight
>Mystic Fencer
>Battlemage
>Bladecaster
>Witchblade
>HexbladeThis is the only class that has ever, or will ever matter in any RPG. Everything else is boring bloat.IMHO
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Anon04/29/26, 13:38No.3976197
>class slop
yawn
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Anon05/01/26, 09:16No.3977533
Who's healing this party? The mage?
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Anon05/01/26, 13:35No.3977611
The difference between bloat and variety is implementation.
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Anon05/01/26, 21:35No.3977743
To me, the most sensible is:
Fighter (Focuses on combat)
Rogue (Focuses on tricks, slight of hand, stealth, charisma)
Magic-User (Focuses on powerful spells, but only has a few available for any given situation so you better be ready)
Cleric (Focuses on a bit of everything, plus faith)
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Anon05/02/26, 01:54No.3977917
Paladins are the only class anyone needs.
>Beat the shit out of monsters
>Heal yourself
>Bash open treasure chests with warhammer
>Just walk through traps and heal yourself
>Bring some friends along if you get bored, resurrect them when they do retarded shit
>All the women lust after your purity, so you can choose the most virtuous one to impregnate
Easy life, blessed be God.
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Anon05/02/26, 06:15No.3978031
It's still funny that being a criminal became a fundamental role in rpgs.
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Anon05/02/26, 20:08No.3978332
What's the SF equivalent of these?
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Anon05/02/26, 21:54No.3978386
no matter what you pick you only get a fraction of the experience. the hero should be a fighter who can use magic and sneak around
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Anon05/03/26, 03:29No.3978468
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Anon05/03/26, 16:44No.3978680
>Thief
Nah. Trash archetype .
>stealing
Either a side activity that can be performed without a dedicated thief or immersion-breaking savescumming/metagaming bait.
>disarming traps
Dogshit mechanic. Skill monkey dispelling invisible environmental hazard is antithetical to Indiana Jones style set pieces that dungeon traps are trying to replicate.
>stealth
Consistently shitty and underdeveloped in every game where it's not the main focus, especially in RPGs.
>lockpicking
Held back by level designers' skill issues.
>bows and daggers
Ah, yes, the arbitrary "dex" weapons that are somehow too sophisticated for a fighter, an expert in all things martial.
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Anon05/03/26, 16:49No.3978683
You need a THF in the party because without Treasure Hunter your chance to get that rare drop off that enemy that only spawns once every 72~86 hours is going to be at a 2.1% rate instead of the optimal 6.275% rate
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Anon05/06/26, 07:37No.3980074
I am a strict purist when it comes to adventuring party size in RPGs. It should be either solo, or 6-8. I don't like the mediocrity of 3-4 niggas (in a row or otherwise), which a lot of games have settled into. Very few of them do something different with that limited party size. It's usually the same strict class distinction as in bigger party titles, but you have fewer people.
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Anon05/08/26, 17:46No.3981196
>less options = good
Missing the point entirely. There should be as many options & variations as possible so you can tailor your build & character concept any way you want. This approach only becomes a problem if it’s half-assed and filled with trap options that are just mechanically the same as others but worse. If you simplify it to the basics of just three pure classes then your title will be flooded with casuals because you’ve made it too accessible & bland.
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Anon05/09/26, 03:18No.3981536
>Warrior
>Paladin/cleric (faggy warrior)
>Mage
>Priest (faggy mage)
>Thief
>Archer
These are the 6 true classes.
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Anon05/09/26, 14:49No.3981713
I only play games with monk class.
I love use my bare hands
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Anon05/09/26, 17:23No.3981764
>A monk with self buffs; using the totality of yourself to get through the enemies in a solipsistic manner.
>An illusionist with rogueish inclinations; the proclivity for using others as your playthings to self-destruct and avoiding sullying your hands.
>A pilgrim with silver tongue and charisma; the pacifism that seeks to quell the needles strife with a kind word, but not fearing to use force when necessary.
>A human fighter in heavy armor; the quintessence of humanity that, while not burning for long, showcases the will and limit of man's tenacity in face of void arcane gifts.
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Anon05/10/26, 03:17No.3981996
If an rpg magic system wasn't lying gamified horseshit you only need a mage for anything.
>he can change of the rules of reality, but we had to cripple him with asspull caveats just to make the game fit the only mould our peabrains could conveice of!
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Anon05/15/26, 13:49No.3984942
But i like the bloat anon. I like advanced classes that require specialization proficiency and to master certain skills first and i like to be able to build my classes as i think they should be. While i´m no fan of overpowered characters that can do just about anything to the point classes become meaningless i find dipping or even multiclassing acceptable for the sake of achieving a concept.For example in pathfinder WoTR i had to mix like 4 classes to get my thief to actually be cool. I wanted a thief that could use smokescreens to teleport to crit from the shadows and throw it´s knives while remained obscured but the default rogue was incapable of doing that by itself.Or say you want a spellsword? More often than not the build in spellwords are trash>INB4 that´s because the concept of spellswords is trashCalm your tits. I just want to roleplay Elric. That´s as classic as high fantasy archetypes get. It´s not as if i want 6+ tier level spells and 8 attacks for turn or something. In short, it´s not about min maxing, it´s about to having the tools to build the character you want to roleplay and creating synergies. Finding the best ways skills and feats complement each other to build that.