In this pole I am including RPGs such as both Dungeons and Dragons and the Final Fantasies. Every instance of a certain class type will have common features, I am referring to high warrior strength, high thief dexterity... So use which RPG you have on mind when answering this poll.
So, Warriors will include all fighters, blackbelts, rangers,or knights. Wizards would be the sorcerors and magicians. Priests would be clerics, druids, probably white mages, and Rogues would be thieves, ninjas and probably bards.
Some questions; What genre would be a D&D Monk, and what about an FF Red Mage?
Best RPG Class Genre?
A monk would go into the Warrior category. Warriors are those that use physical strength over anything else, and a Monk does just that. Instead of training with weapons, though, the monk trains to use the body itself as a weapon, eventually learning mystical powers through the perfection of body.
The whole point of a Red Mage (in Final Fantasy) was to bridge different classes. The Red Mage can cast offensive spells like a wizard, but can also cast healing spells like a cleric. They might also be good with both sword and sneaking around, though in all four cases, the red mage is not as good as any of the specific classes.
The whole point of a Red Mage (in Final Fantasy) was to bridge different classes. The Red Mage can cast offensive spells like a wizard, but can also cast healing spells like a cleric. They might also be good with both sword and sneaking around, though in all four cases, the red mage is not as good as any of the specific classes.
Yepper, monks would be warriors, but i've seen them classified as priests before. Red Mages bear an uncanny resemblance to D&D bards, in my opinion. Bards too are a mixture Warrior, Rogue and Mage. But it seems, in my experience, that there has never been any doubt that a bard is classified as a rogue. I'm assuming this is because the bard's main ability, past the combat, stealth and magic, is it's interpersonal skills. Things like bluff, diplomacy and gather information. (I can't help feeling that my viewing of a red mage as thus is because of 8-bit theatre.)
In some games, the monks which start out as hand-to-hand fighters can learn divine spells (or in the case of D&D 3E, ki attacks) which might contribute towards that confusion.
A Red mage classically (I mean the original Final Fantasy, here) is a bridge between offensive and defensive spell casting. The more general jack-of-all-trades would be a bard, so there is some sort of division.
A Red mage classically (I mean the original Final Fantasy, here) is a bridge between offensive and defensive spell casting. The more general jack-of-all-trades would be a bard, so there is some sort of division.
Which was exactly my point to begin with. Both the bard and the red mage are defined as the jack of all trades. This is taken directly from the wikipedia entry on Red Mages.
"In the Final Fantasy series of video games from Square Enix, the Red Mage (or Red Wizard) is a character class similar to the Bard in the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game."
Red Mage literally is a bard without the music abilities.
"In the Final Fantasy series of video games from Square Enix, the Red Mage (or Red Wizard) is a character class similar to the Bard in the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game."
Red Mage literally is a bard without the music abilities.
