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Message: <blockquote data-quote="El Mahdi" data-source="post: 5823574" data-attributes="member: 59506">I think it's important to look at these classes from what their backgrounds likely are.  Though there may be some disagreement abou this, I see them this way: Warrior: A Warrior with a military background of at least an infantry soldier.  Understands military force structure, defences, and tactics, as well as being versed in the most common fighting forms of the time. Knight: A Noble Warrior, with much the same combat skills as the above warrior, but concentrates much more on Equestrian combat.  Command skills can be common to both the Knight and Warrior.  The symbol of a Knight is not their sword or armor, but their spurs. Paladin: A Mendicant Knight.  A Knight that has taken vows of poverty, piety, and yes...chastity, in the service of a god.  They have a special connection to their deity and gain special favor for their sacrifice. Fighter: A warrior without a military background.  Combat skills learned from Sword/Fencing teachers.  Professional Duelists, Body Guards, and even some Mercenaries fall into this category. Monk: an oriental warrior dedicated to both mind and body perfection.  They have skills in common with military warriors, but are at the same time much less and much more than a straight warrior.  They are not historically, a warrior that focuses exclusively on unarmed combat.  Such focus has only been during specific historical periods and always as a result of the political climate of the time. Ranger: A Woodsman.  Can fight much like a Fighter but is most at home in the wilderness.  Their skills are tracking, hunting, and scouting.  They may be part of a military group but only as a scout - not as a Warrior on the battlefield. Barbarian (Berserker):  A unique Warrior of Germanic (Barbarian) origin.  Outlawed in many places and times.  They escue the use of armor (except for Hides, such as Bear or Wolf hides), and work themself into a rage (either by psychological means or through the use of "herbal" agents).  I would really like to see the classes get back closer to their roots and original inspirations, rather than continuing in the direction they have been going.  A direction that has strayed far from their origins. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/glasses.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt="B-)" title="Glasses    B-)" data-shortname="B-)" /></blockquote>

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