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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dr. Strangemonkey" data-source="post: 1278040" data-attributes="member: 6533">To do Archetypes right you should have specific and highly relevant characters to point to, so...There are always socially based heavy fighters:  samurai and cavaliers: LancelotScoundrel heavy fighters:  questing knights, thugs, and gladiators: Little JohnBlessed heavy fighters: the poor knight and crusaders: St. GeorgeLoyal heavy fighters: centurions and men-at-arms:  GawaineLeading Heavy fighters: generals and guerillas: Richard Lion-heartor you can divide it up by arms and technique:mounted : Bellerophonprimitive : Herculesarmored : Achillesblessed/clever/lucky : Theseusarcher: Ulyssesstrategist: Ulysses=he is the man of many waysThere are a lot of ways you can break it down.  Limiting or categorizing archetypes is difficult.Probably the simplest is to go for the common heroic ethoi you want to be present and then make an array of options for each type.Thus the flexi-classes of fighter and wizard or the classes of AU.mmm, some archetypes I haven't seen mentioned in the general lists so far are the archer, horseman, and, most importantly,The adventurous knower of secrets:  yer McGuyver, Indiana Jones, Von Richten types...</blockquote>