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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rechan" data-source="post: 4400300" data-attributes="member: 54846">Interesting. Does the Monk do any sort of body augmentation ("Congratulations, you're bulletproof for the next ten seconds" "Tada, I can walk through fire by just harnessing my chi")? Yogi/Mythical Chinese Martial Artist type stuff? I wonder how the mentalism-monk in the monk book functions. Do they augment their attacks with telekinesis? Heh.I do not know if he has the Monk companion, but he does have [ame="http://www.amazon.com/Mentalism-Companion-Rolemaster-5605-Caldwell/dp/1558063803/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1217223425&sr=8-2"]this book[/ame], and (Well he said "Arcane book"; it could've been the Arcane or Essence companion). What's the difference between these two guys? Because "magic using assassin" sounds really similar to "Magic using ninja", y'know? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> Both sound fairly appealing to me.Is this the "Speak to the dead, read tarot cards" type of "Information gathering", or something else? I always thought the "Medium" or Psychic type of magic user was a niche really missing from D&D.I notice there's no "Necromancer" or Voodoo Priest/Hexer. "Debuff" casters are appealing to me, but not to a great extent. That's good to hear. From what it sounds like though, the Monk/Magent/Dabbler/Mystic and Rogue are what intrigues me the most, but there's no telling.The archetype that interests me most is "Spy". Manipulative, charismatic, a master of subterfuge and tactics, but able to definitely open up a can of whoop-ass if he has the element of surprise, or picks the right battlefield with appropriate terrain. Having a pocket full of tricks is also useful. McGuyver + James Bond, or (to use a more magical reference) Johnny Constantine. I imagine you could do this with mentalism too (Basically being <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shadow" target="_blank">The Shadow</a>), or any other combination. It occurs to me that, due to the lethal potential of Rolemaster, what I might do is get two or three characters built, and have two in the pocket. Though, I'd worry that they'd be too dang similar to one another.My biggest fear is trying to do too much, and thus not succeeding at doing anything. [sblock="Related tangent"]There's a TV show called "Burn Notice" about a CIA spy who was outed. So he must do odd jobs while trying to find out who outed him/why/try to get back in. He's very sneaky/tricky, and uses techniques and jimmy-rigged tech (such as using tampered cellphones as bugs, making thermite and flash grenades from items at the grocery store, etc), as well as being good at deceiving. He rarely fights, and if so, it's very short, scrappy, "disable ASAP" type judo.I would love playing this character. Naturally the technology isn't there, but a few clever uses of magic could facilitate it. Sidenote: The show even has Bruce Campbell in it, and you <a href="http://www.usanetwork.com/fullepisodes/" target="_blank">can watch the episodes online here</a>.[/sblock]Other Archetypes I enjoy: The "Throw Anything"/Knife fighter (See: Riddick). The Support/Buffer (Your Dragon Shaman, Warlord, a Bard that doesn't suck), the Face man (although I like to contribute to combat too!), the Debuffer, and the Brick (Hellboy, Hercules, etc; can take punishment, and pummel/throw people around).</blockquote>

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