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Message: <blockquote data-quote="takyris" data-source="post: 1791802" data-attributes="member: 5171">Pretty much what other folks have said.  The best way to think about most characters is not as them having one class, but as class combinations, like the archetypes in the back of the handbook.Strong/Tough: A bouncer, guard, or bodyguard who relies on hitting things hard and taking punishment.Fast/Tough: Any athlete who relies on moving fast and taking punishment rather than hitting things with accuracy.  A football running back, for example.  As a criminal, a drug runner or second-story man.  Historically, a messenger who was less about fighting off bad guys and more about outrunning them and running himself to death, if necessary, to get the information to his commander.Smart/Tough: From Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Chief O'Brien.  A former grunt who's become a good engineer.  In the show, he's seen taking some ugly hits and still going.  He's not the best fighter in the group, but he can take his licks and get the job done.Dedicated/Tough: Any hero who lives out in the wilderness is probably this or something close to it.  Living off the land, making his way as a hunter, tracker, or survivalist who can hike all day, ignore minor scrapes, and laugh despite ice-cold water or frigid night air... In a more civilized setting, he makes a good private investigator -- not a combat machine, but he can figure out the crime and survive the inevitable billy club to the head he gets two-thirds of the way through the story when the big twist shows up.  Your average "Sam Spade"-type private eye is probably Dedicated/Tough.  Worldly and hard enough to take a few punches.Charismatic/Tough: As an athlete, I'd peg this guy as a defensive tackle in the secondary -- the kind of guy who doesn't overpower the opponent, but talks about the other guy's mama enough to rattle his nerves and throw him off his game.  In the military, this is a great drill sergeant -- he doesn't outshoot and outfight everybody.  He goes on 20-mile runs and then does push-ups for an hour, dragging the team behind, yelling at them until they begin to turn into the troops they need to be, never realizing how well Ol' Sarge is manipulating them.  Sarge might even have some pull with the higher-ups, unofficially, and he's seen enough action and survived enough ugly operations to stare down any green Lieutenant who thinks he can order the sergeant around.</blockquote>

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