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Shaw Ashecroft... ranger?

In any game system you have game mechanics structured around classes and roles. Mages toss spells, warriors whack folks and clerics heal. You know the drill. While in some forms of play, playing and knowing your “class” is paramount to everything, even role-play.

But from the role-playing side of things, there’s a whole world of twists and different takes on what “X” class is or could be. In tabletop games like Dungeons & Dragons, you can “flavor” your character with Character “Kits”. What this does is take you away a little from the generics of a class and liven up things.

In mmorpgs, this can work as well!

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