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In tabletop games and video games, a character class is an occupation, profession, or role assigned to a game character to highlight and differentiate their capabilities and specializations. [ 1 ] In role-playing games (RPGs), character classes aggregate several abilities and aptitudes , and may also detail aspects of background and social ...
A character class is a fundamental part of the identity and nature of characters in the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game.A character's capabilities, strengths, and weaknesses are largely defined by their class; choosing a class is one of the first steps a player takes to create a Dungeons & Dragons player character. [1]
A character class represents a character's abilities and career in some role-playing games, especially those derived from the Dungeons & Dragons game in some way, and many role-playing video games. Usually, players choose their class when they create their character and may not completely part from that class during the life of that character ...
This listed the three "prime requisites" of the character classes before the "general" stats: strength for fighters, intelligence for magic-users, and wisdom for clerics. The attribute sequence in D&D was changed to Strength, Intelligence, Wisdom, Dexterity, Constitution, and Charisma, sometimes referred to as "SIWDCC". [9]
The ranger was one of the standard character-classes available in the original Player's Handbook, [4] one of five subclasses. [5]: 145 The first edition rangers were a subtype of the fighters, [6] using any weapon and wearing any armor, but they gained extra attacks at a slower rate than fighters and paladins.
[4] [5] The monk was presented as one of the five core classes in the original Players Handbook. [6]: 145 In 1981, Philip Meyers argued that "the monk is the weakest of the character classes" in an article published in Dragon Magazine #53 (later reprinted in Best of Dragon, Volume III). Meyers offered an extensive unofficial revision to the ...
The paladin was one of the standard character classes available in the original Player's Handbook. [5] The paladin was one of five subclasses presented in the original Player's Handbook . [ 6 ] : 145 In the 1st edition of Dungeons & Dragons the paladin class had very high ability score prerequisites, and stipulated that only human characters ...
Pages in category "Dungeons & Dragons character classes" The following 60 pages are in this category, out of 60 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .