Therumancer wrote:Tinker Dragoon wrote:Since HU doesn't have any classes, none.
My favorite Power Categories however are Hardware, Robotics, and Special Training: Super Sleuth.
*PLEASE* don't try and go here. HU is a class based RPG. One of the things that has made WW so bloody obnoxious was their whole "we have a classless RPG! It features clans which you have to select instead".
Class, Archetype, Clan, Cabal, Power Catagory, whatever you want to call it. If you make one desician that pretty much determines your character type compared to others then it's a 'class'.
These kinds of terminology games are annoying, and can actually turn people off to the game.
Sorry if I seem a bit excessive, but I don't think a moderator should post stuff like this.
>>>----Therumancer--->
Whoa, buddy... ease off the trigger finger here (or the caffeine, either one).
I can see your point that HU is not a 'classless' RPG, but HU still doesn't have 'classes' in the sense that other games such as Rifts and Robotech do. With OCCs and RCCs, your choice pretty much defines your skills, equipment, special abilities/powers, and in a lot of cases even your social status. Since in HU you determine your special abilities/skills and your education level separately, you're not pigeonholed into such narrowly-defined classes. In Rifts, a Vagabond is always going to start off as a standard Vagabond... but in HU, a mutant can start off as a mutant who grew up on the streets or a mutant with a Ph.D. (or anything in between).
You can call it 'terminology games' if you want, and yes TD could have phrased the response a little differently (and perhaps a little better), but since HU and other games have different systems of categorizing characters IMO you do need to make a distinction between the two in order to help reduce confusion.
