Hey everyone, Falen the Drow Dark Knight here. I realize I can look in the Student's thread to see everyone's basic character design, but they don't seem very complete. They show us the race and gender and sometimes background, as well as special moves and such, but in terms of overal character build I don't see much. As a person who is obsessed with game design, especially the combat aspect in games (RPGs and Video games alike), I try to achieve some sort of balance with my characters, monsters, bosses etc.
In the spirit of trying to better the entire guild's playing mentality, I propose this Thread be dedicated to improving the finer details of our characters. Let me give an example of my character.

"Falen is a Drow who wears very heavy armor and carries a massive sword."
Basic description of her yes? So we can see that because she wears such heavy armor, light attacks will have very little effect on her. Her strong point lies within that, but it also gives her a weakness, such as poor speed, so she can't dodge that effectively. Also note her massive sword. It means that whenever she hits a target, its going to feel the hit, unless it has some kind of magical barrier or is an ethereal creature. This also poses a downside to her, two in fact. Because the sword is so heavy, she can't swing very fast, and therefore has a big time in between strikes, and she also has even less dodging ability. She can overcome that time in between strikes by pushing herself harder, but this exhausts her a little faster. She can also overcome her lack of speed and dodging by letting go of her sword and going into hand to hand combat.
Now that description doesn't give us an idea of what kind of magical abilities she has, which to be honest, she doesn't really.

So lets take this as our first step. I'd like you to make a breif description on your character. No need to go into detail on your characters costume, unless the costume peice is important to their abilities. We don't need to know if your cloack has the symbol of a red lion with a flowered crown, unless having that symbol is a suppressed summon of that lion beast.
Then after your breif description, try to look at it and come up with strong points and weak points about your character. The weak points are as important as the strong points, because they're what's going to make these battles interesting.