Talk:Character class

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The "generalizations" on the class description are not generalizations but rather specific to Final Fantasy games. I changed them to be more generic -Dabigdeez 22:03, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

I gave up trying to generalize the highly specific statement and changed the article so that it states these are specific characteristics of Final Fantasy series, rather than alluding that they are common use. -Dabigdeez 22:13, 3 February 2006 (UTC)


Something should be added about Classes in MMORPGs, basically their focus as a smaller member of a group usually not found in other forms of RPGs, they tend to be more limited in position than typical classes. IE a fighter would be either good at dealing damage or negating damage, forced from the MMO perspective of rigid class balance in a situation where Min-maxing is considered standard and the slightest unbalanced character class is very quickly realized and exploited byt he playerbase. Dabigdeez 14:50, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] non roleplaying games section

the non roleplaying games section says that non RPGs that have character classes is a new idea... that's totaly false: Team Fortress came out in 1996. That section needs to be completly rewritten. -Aknorals 14:10, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] NPOV?

<quote>Few modern role-playing games that are not closely modelled on Dungeons and Dragons use character classes, as many roleplayers find them to be an artifical and unnecessary constraint on their choice of character.</quote>

Seems to me the above statement is hardly NPOV and expresses a bias against D&D-style RPGs --Bill W. Smith, Jr. 05:07, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

It's weaselly anyway. I don't think the article would be negatively impacted by its removal. Chris Cunningham 12:52, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] RPG-MMORPG only?

I'm willing to attest that almost every character in media can be grouped into some type of character class - based on the first sentence of this article. KyuuA4 16:30, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] I think a list of classes should be compiled...

...a list that would organize all the classes from pen/paper and video games alike. So, rather than looking at the DnD list, Final Fantasy list, and class stereotypes, it would be possible to look at every class on the same page. Should it be done? Aga the Wolf 15:27, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

Why stop there? we could have a list of classes from every RPG, their roles, strength and weaknesses! It would take ages but be interesting. It would probably need another page as well. Still I'm game if anyone wants to help!--TheMightyShoeHorn 10:41, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

The Article List of Character Classes was deleted a little while ago...I have no idea why. I have an archived copy, kinda; I copied the text and images (were there any?) from the about.com ripoff page, so I don't have the wiki markup. It was a pretty messy article, but could have been improved. I think a List of Fantasy Character Classes article would be warranted, though, as with Science Fiction Character Classes and Nonstandard Character Classes (Deadlands, historical non-fantasy, etc.). Join the discussion at User_talk:The_Dark_Side. Notostraca 03:28, 12 July 2007 (UTC)