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S&S Archetypes (part 1 of I Love Archetypes)

Started by signoftheserpent, September 05, 2007, 07:27:13 AM

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signoftheserpent

I do, I love them for creating characters and relating to a setting. Whether they are splats or clans or roles or whatever you want to call them. I think they work very well in game systems.

Anyway, what are the archetypes fundamental to sword and sorcery? Warrior (like Conan or Elric)? Wizard - Sorcerer (like Elric or someone else)?
 

enelson

Wizard-Thief (Grey Mouser)
Warrior-Sorcerer (Elric)
Barbarian (Conan/Fafhrd)
Sorcerer (Any Conan story; they usually die a horrible death)
Warrior (Kane)

I really cannot think of a priest/cleric character in S&S fiction.
Are there any straight thieves in S&S?
 

KenHR

Warrior-woman/amazon might be another, though it's just a gender-specific variation on the warrior/barbarian archetype, I suppose (Jirel, Belit, etc.)
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Well BĂȘlit was a pirate. So I would think that would be a class too.
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