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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Panda-s1" data-source="post: 7918267" data-attributes="member: 59554">I think the problem I have stems from knowing how many different iconic characters went into making each class, and in some cases that class might not even represent every character that went into it well. I also find it silly when people use the names of classes in-game as if people in that setting codify adventurers that way (okay some settings do do this, but those settings are usually trying to ape rpg mechanics for comedic effect).I mean like prabe said sometimes I don't have a choice in what game I'm going to play. sometimes I have to compromise and choose a class even though the character I have in mind is a bit more nebulous than what the game will let me do. I do like thinking of what class I'm gonna play when I don't have a character in mind, or even coming up with characters with a class in mind, but I especially like thinking outside the bounds of what's usually expected of the class. like not every cleric is going to be the healbot with a mace. sometimes I'm a cleric of a war god and your average person might not think me a holy man but just some random mercenary. or maybe I'm a cleric of a god of magic. people might see me and think of me as some sort of wizard instead. be a fighter who only uses slings, or a ranger who's only ever explored the sewers beneath the city, idk man classes are dumb when they're rigidly defined imo.I feel like fantasy doesn't have as many universal tropes as people would like to think. and if it does it's probably because it's tapping on the long history of human mythology. science fiction has only really coalesced in it's current form like maybe 200 years ago? the other problem is science fiction by its nature is a lot more open ended. Star Trek has planets and spaceships and it's ostensibly sci fi (though I find this claim tenuous imo). but Fallout only has planet and no spaceships (none that anyone flies at least) and I'll be damned if that's not also sci fi.</blockquote>

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