I could swear this has been addressed elsewhere in this forum, but I can't find it for the life of me. I'm interested in coming up with a comprehensive list of character concepts that certain class-based RPGs can't effectively handle. Here are some obvious ones, but what else am I missing?
- Experienced But Aged Veteran Warriors
- Lightly Armored Warriors That Aren't Monks
- Characters With Severe Physical or Mental Impairments
- Kids
- Arbitrary Races Like Anthropomorphic Animals Or Dralasites
Bonus points for characters out of popular works of fiction that could never be done in class systems, e.g. Last Airbender.
Okay, when I made my original comment about Lynda vs. Gal, I was kind of joking. I did not intend to start some sort of body shaming flame war. If this discussion stops being civil I will start posting nudes of myself in all my wrinkly, spotted glory. You have been warned.
"Field Marshal, thousands of paratroops have landed in this area, three kilometres from here."
"What? Why? There is nothing important here... me! I'm important! They must've landed here just to capture me!"
He sleeps under black seas waiting
Lies dreaming in death
He sleeps under cosmos shaking
Stars granting his breath
He wakes as the world dies screaming
All horrors arrive
He wakes giving earth its bleeding
Pure madness alive
And He haunts you
And He blinds your soul
And He loathes you
And reclaims it all
You turn to stone
Can't look away
You turn to stone
Madness, they say
Cthulhu awaken
Note that if we'd caught the Russians tampering with an election in Bananistan, we'd be loudly shouting about the illegitimacy of the result and demanding a new election.