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There are 5 starting classes that every character can be.

Fighter, Archer, Theif, White Mage and Black Mage

Fighters specialise in melee combat, prefering to hit things with swords and the like.
Archers specialise in ranged combat, prefering to hit things with precison and accuracy.
Theives specialise in not being seen and sneaking around, delivering cripling blows from melee or ranged attacks.
White mages specialise in healing and defending others, dealing very little damage to enemies.
Black Mages specialise in damaging foes and defending themselves, never being able to heal themselves.

Now, choose a class depending on what you want. I suggest making a post and start there.

Abilities. You get two set stats, one being strong and the other weak. The other two stats you get to choose wether they are weak or medium.

Strength determines how hard you can hit things.
Agility detemines how easily you can dodge a non-magical attack.
Dexterity determines how accurate you are with ranged attacks and spell casting times.
Intelligence determines how strong your spells are and if you can dodge a spell.

Class - Strong - Weak
Fighter - Str - Int
Archer - Dex - Int
Thief - Agi - Int
White mage - Int - Str
Black mage - Int - Str

Now, the other two stats that aren't set, you get to choose between making strong and medium.

For first level, your stats will be 9, 9, 7 and 5.

You also get the first step of the three skill trees available to your class (To be added later).

So, at the moment, it's fairly simple to create a level 1 character. We are still working on the skills, but go ahead and create a character if you wish.

Everyone starts with basic weaponry, as we don't want to try and add modifiers for weaponry yet. Skills first.

Everyone starts with a critical range of 19-20/x1.5

Name: Carla
Class: White mage
Level: 1
Str - 5
Agi - 7
Dex - 9
Int - 9
Critical range: 19-20/x1.5
Skills: Cure, Shield, Illumination, Fade
Weapons: Quaterstaff.