A heavily armoured troll, to fight off those little newbies!

I enjoy characters who can set traps. Traps present a very different play style to combat oriented games.

To give you an idea of what I already have I'll list some of the stuff I've already put in.

The Combat branch:
This contains weapon specialization up to weapon mastery(with a bunch of skills(critical, parry, improved weapon speed, ect) you need to get on the way to mastery). You also have armour and shield profeciencies as well as dodge which leads to counter.

The Magic branch:
This contains magic specialization and plenty of skills devoted to getting more mana and improved casting preformance. Also once you have mastered Alteration magic and Magic Item Lore(Lore branch) you can even get equipment branding which allows you to construct your own magic weapons by binding your spells to equipment events(On Hit, On Defend, On Wear, ect).

The Psionics branch:
This is a special tree branch that has skills that require various innate psionic abilities. It has everything from mind controled temperature to healing to telekenisis.

The Athletics branch:
This is mainly a support branch that any character that gets in the thick of battle should work on. It has things to increase movement speed, total health, stun resistance, resist elements(heat and cold), poison resist ect

The Lore branch:
This category is for getting all sorts of general knowledge to help you identify things in the dungeon. It contains stuff like Item Lore, Dungeon Lore, and Anatomy.

The Thievery branch:
This category has many useful things for the stealthy character type. It has skills for being stealthy, backstabbing creatures, spotting traps, disarming traps, and eventually setting traps.

This is a brief overview of the main branches I have already. Any character can get skills from any group(with a few exceptions like the psionics one which requires inate abilities which you must select from the start) but it's best to limit how much you spread your points since it's most effective to be good at a certain thing.

This should provide enough to make your standard types of characters like mages, thiefs, fighters, and any derivatives of those. So what I was going for in asking for character concepts is more of exotic or strange character types that aren't as common.

Sort of like if you get the psionic drain life ability and then get psionic spellcasting you can have a character sort of like a Defiler from the Dark Sun campaign in 2nd edition AD&D rules.

FuZzY DiCe wrote:

Monk(martial artist)

You can have something like this already by getting unarmed specialization and a good set of athletics skills.

Warlock

I'm not sure exactly what a warlock is but if it's a fighter/mage type combo it's possible.

Barbarian

This'll probably be achievable by getting Combat and Athletics skills.

Warrior

Probably a character who'll just specialize in combat with maybe endurance from he athletics group.

Mage, Summoner, Necromancer, and Elementalist for Magic Users.

Magic works a bit different in my game. There are five major fields of magic.

Energy
Creation
Destruction
Alteration
Animation

Each spell can have dependancies on one or more of these fields. Some examples might me.

Firebolt - Requires energy only
Waterblast - Requires energy and creation(if there is no nearby water supply to use)
Create Animal Servant - Energy and Creation
Cure Minor Wounds - Energy and Animation

Just about every spell requies some sort of profeciency with energy specialization so every mage will probably want to get some of this. But if you want to be powerful in a certain type of magic like a necromancer you'd go for mostly Animation specialization or a summoner would go for creation. Necromancers and healers have pretty much the same skill sets since its all animating dead flesh it's just the applications that differentiate the two.

Ranger, Hunter, Archer and Marksman for Ranges Classes.

There is a bow specialization and a sling specialization in combat but I don't know what would make an archer different from a marksman. The Ranger would probably go for some of the thieving skills like keen sight and keen hearing. I don't exactly see what a hunter would do differently than a ranger though.

Assasin, Ninja, Rogue, and Theif for Stealth Classes.

Well I have backstabing, trap (dir)arming, and stealth for thieves.

Paladin, Templar, Cleric and Healer for Healing Classes.

All the mage stuff should handle for the healing.

So I think I have it mostly covered :).

I've always wanted to try an Illusion-based spellcaster, although im not entirely sure how that would work. Someone able to conjure up images that either fight for them, give them some kind of boost, or simply do damage to the enemy.

Or how about an odd version of the Alchemist? A heavy fighter able to brew potions to a) drink to improve your stats b) toss on enemies c) lay on the ground and somehow "detonate", through the use of fire or other, to create explosive devices.

Heck, what about a type of hybrid that assumes the shape of something it kills, gaining some of their skills and perhaps gains a small stat boost depending on the monsters highest stats, and how high they were. A changeling of sorts.

And, a bard class/skill tree! Songs are always fun. Perhaps instruments boost the bards abilities.

alchemists tried to make metal to gold with chemicals didn't they?...

And tried to discover the elixer of life.

And as for the base-metal-to-gold thing, we can actually do that today, but the price would be extremely high for not much gold.