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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 9249095" data-attributes="member: 4937">Talker is part of the Sneaker skill set.&nbsp; Really, if you are talking about the purpose of archetypes, the idea is to allow every participant to play a unique role.&nbsp; So how many roles you have really depends on how many participants you see as being the maximum provided for the game.&nbsp; Typically, after generating Fighter, Sneaker, Mage the next proliferation is over offensive minded (DPS) or defensive minded (Sustain) where the offensive minded archetypes try to end the fight quickly while the defensive minded intend to lose the fewest resources possible in the fight.&nbsp; Obviously, ending it quickly is one way to sustain conflict, but offensive minded characters tend to suffer when they can't end fights quickly and defensive minded characters tend to suffer when you need to end a fight quickly (because the foe ramps or scales or is a glass cannon).So you might break that three into like Berserker, Bastion, Hunter, Rascal, Conjurer, and Priest.&nbsp; Further proliferation occurs when you start multiclassing to take parts of the concept from two classes and merge them.&nbsp; For example, &quot;Paladin&quot; is a Bastion/Priest and Bard is a Rascal/Priest.&nbsp; How free you want to allow for multiclass archetypes is up to you, but I'd suggest probably only like/like pairings - no multiclassing offensive minded with defensive minded archetypes.&nbsp; You want to avoid &quot;Jack of All Trades, Master of All/None&quot; combinations.&nbsp; And that would get you from 6 to 12: Paladin, Bard, Paragon (Bastion/Rascal), Slayer (Berserker/Hunter), Witch (Berserker/Conjurer), Ranger (Hunter/Conjurer).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 9249095, member: 4937"] Talker is part of the Sneaker skill set. Really, if you are talking about the purpose of archetypes, the idea is to allow every participant to play a unique role. So how many roles you have really depends on how many participants you see as being the maximum provided for the game. Typically, after generating Fighter, Sneaker, Mage the next proliferation is over offensive minded (DPS) or defensive minded (Sustain) where the offensive minded archetypes try to end the fight quickly while the defensive minded intend to lose the fewest resources possible in the fight. Obviously, ending it quickly is one way to sustain conflict, but offensive minded characters tend to suffer when they can't end fights quickly and defensive minded characters tend to suffer when you need to end a fight quickly (because the foe ramps or scales or is a glass cannon). So you might break that three into like Berserker, Bastion, Hunter, Rascal, Conjurer, and Priest. Further proliferation occurs when you start multiclassing to take parts of the concept from two classes and merge them. For example, "Paladin" is a Bastion/Priest and Bard is a Rascal/Priest. How free you want to allow for multiclass archetypes is up to you, but I'd suggest probably only like/like pairings - no multiclassing offensive minded with defensive minded archetypes. You want to avoid "Jack of All Trades, Master of All/None" combinations. And that would get you from 6 to 12: Paladin, Bard, Paragon (Bastion/Rascal), Slayer (Berserker/Hunter), Witch (Berserker/Conjurer), Ranger (Hunter/Conjurer). [/QUOTE]

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