Does it make any difference if the Martial Mage prioritizes magic or melee? If you put it on a spreadsheet, warrior, infantry, mage, and beastmaster form a middle diagonal line and the same following mirror each other.
- Melee + Ranged : All-Weapon
- Melee + Summoning : Berserker
- Ranged + Magic : Trickster
- Ranged + Summoning : Far Cry
- Magic + Summoning : Witch
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A person who can pull from two skill sets at all is considered a hybrid class. He is, however, free to prefer one skillset over the other.
Hm, I like Trickster? Perhaps I could even give it a Magicians Are Wizards theme?
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Magic+Ranged+Summonig= Archon a mage who with spell who rains magic arrows and the spirts of the dead at his foes.
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A class can only have 1 or 2 skill pools. Not 3.
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I'm thinking Magic + Summoning will be called a Channeler or a Medium.
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It seems to me that the various combinations could be interpreted in multiple ways, depending on how they use the combined skill-types and what other abilities they have. For example, a "melee + ranged" character could easily be a thief (using knives, blackjacks, and various trick-bombs), an assassin (using knives and sniper weapons), a hunter/ranger (using spears and rifles), or even some class that uses trick arrows to soften the enemy, then charges in with a sword.
Perhaps it would help if you gave us a little more information regarding the setting, and what the various skill-types are capable of?
One thing that might help in particular is to know what "magic" is capable of: does it provide only offensive spells, or are there buffs, debuffs, and utility spells? Can we suggest classes that use some subset of that, such as a support class that primarily uses buffs and debuffs, with a melee weapon for self-defence?
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I recommend looking up the game Titans Quest, as it did something very much like this as part of the gameplay.
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"Beastmaster" might be a better class for the melee/summoning combination, being a sort of gladiator who uses an animal companion. Maybe you could just call the pure summoning class a "summoner?"
"Hunter" or "trapper" could be a good ranged/summoning hybrid.
edited 5th Aug '15 12:45:34 PM by Gemsparky
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Hm, I really like that idea. Thank you!
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I think for classes with two skills, there should probably be a primary and a secondary skill. For example:
| Primary Skill | Secondary Skill | Class Name | |
| Melee | Ranged | Ninja | note |
| Ranged | Melee | Frontiersman | note |
| Ranged | Magic | Toxophilite | note |
| Magic | Ranged | Bomber | note |
And there's certainly more combinations out there.
So I'm making a sci-fantasy RPG (with a Weapons Kitchen Sink feel to it), with four modes of combat. They are:
-Melee
-Ranged/Gadgets (They're mixed together. So, landmines, grenades, guns, bows, that sort of thing).
-Magic
-Summoning (basically, Olympus Mons. Summoners can summon attack drones, monsters, pets, that sort of thing).
Each class specializes in one or two modes of combat. Some ideas I have are:
-Warrior (Melee + Melee. You get to be a full-on knight here).
-Infantry (Ranged + Ranged)
-Mage (Magic + Magic)
-Beastmaster (Summoning + Summoning)
-Martial Mage (Magic + Melee. Ryu or the Jedi would be an example of this)
Would anyone be willing to help me come up with other ideas for class hybrids?
edited 26th Jul '15 3:36:16 PM by Protagonist506
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