List of character classes
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A character class in role-playing games is somewhat like a character's job as opposed to their race. Some races might have a class they prefer like a gnome will often end up as an Illusionist. In Original Dungeons & Dragons, for demi-humans, their race was their class; in later versions of the game, demi-humans were treated just like humans in that their race and their class were separate.
Dungeons & Dragons (including Advanced Dungeons & Dragons)
Chainmail and Original D&D (Men & Magic Volume I, Monsters & Treasure Volume II and The Underworld & Wilderness Adventures Volume III)
Basic (human) classes
Demi-Human character classes
Additions from Greyhawk - Supplement I, Blackmoor - Supplement II, Eldritch Wizardry - Supplement III and The Strategic Review
Classic Dungeons & Dragons (The Basic, Expert, Companion, Master and Immortals Dungeons & Dragons Rules & The Rules Cyclopedia - a compilation of the Basic through Immortals Rulebooks)
Basic (human) Classes
Demi-Human character classes
Fighter character classes
Magic-User character classes
Optional character classes
First Edition Advanced Dungeons & Dragons
Player's Handbook Classes
Unearthed Arcana
Oriental Adventures
Dragonlance Campaign World
- Knights of Solamnia
- Knight of the Crown
- Knight of the Sword
- Knight of the Rose
- Wizard of High Sorcery
- Holy Order of the Stars
- Tinker
Dragon Magazine
Second Edition Advanced Dungeons & Dragons
Basic classes from the Player's Handbook
- Warrior
- Rogue
- Priest
- Wizard
Classes from supplements
Legends and Lore
Tome of Magic
Vikings, Campaign Sourcebook
Complete Psionics Handbook
The Complete Gladiator’s Handbook
Complete Ninja's Handbook
Complete Barbarian's Handbook
Player's Option: Skills and Powers
Player's Option: Spells and Magic
Chronomancer
Shaman
Giantcraft
Birthright Setting
Dragonlance Setting
- Knights of Solamnia
- Cavaliers
- Mariners
- Wizards of High Sorcery
- Holy Orders of the Stars
- Heathen Priests
- Handlers
- Tinkers
- Con artists/Prestidigitators
- Knights of Takhisis
Dark Sun Setting
Third Edition Dungeons & Dragons (including "3.5 Edition)
Core classes from the Player's Handbook
Psionic classes
Prestige classes from the Dungeon Master's Guide
- Arcane Archer An Elven archer who can magically empower arrows.
- Arcane Trickster Combines Magic, sneakiness and a tendancey for mischief.
- Archmage Those who can bend magic in even stranger and more powerful ways than most.
- Assassin A master of killing and concealment.
- Blackguard The true champion of evil, a nemesis for all those who are good.
- Dragon Disciple They begin to realise their draconic background and change to meet it.
- Duelist A dashing warrior who is nimble and precise.
- Dwarven Defender An Iron wall with legs and a beard.
- Eldritch Knight Combining martial weapons with arcane lore and spellcasting to make a balance between fighting and casting
- Heirophant A god's champion on earth; only the highest priests can become these.
- Horizon Walker The ultimate traveller - and not just on the earth.
- Loremaster Book smarts are what these people excel at.
- Mystic Theurge Combining Arcane power with Divine Magic, a Theurge explores magic in all forms
- Red Wizard A wizard who becomes even more focused on a particular area of magic; from the evil land of Thay
- Shadowdancer Uses the shadows to move from place to place, very tricky.
- Thaumatergist A master at summoning aid from outside this world.
Basic classes from supplements
Complete Warrior
Complete Divine
Complete Arcane
Oriental Adventures
Eberron Campaign Setting
Ultima
Ultima I - II
Ultima III
Ultima IV - IX
(You were not allowed to choose class in Ultima VII, VII part 2, or VIII, and class choice has far less significance in games beyond Ultima IV.) Included in the list are the corresponding Virtue and the starting town in Ultima IV.
- Mage (Honesty/Moonglow)
- Bard (Compassion/Britain)
- Fighter (Valor/Jhelom)
- Druid (Justice/Yew)
- Tinker (Sacrifice/Minoc)
- Paladin (Honor/Trinsic)
- Ranger (Spirituality/Skara Brae)
- Shepherd (Humility/Magincia)
Wizardry
1 through 5
6, 7
These two games had all the classes above, and in addition:
8
The final game in the series added the Gadgeteer class.
Dragon Quest
The original game did not have anything resembling a class system; however, in many later games, the characters are assigned to classes, even if it is not possible to create new characters.
Dragon Quest 2
Dragon Quest 3
- Hero (the game's main protagonist)
- Warrior
- Wizard
- Cleric
- Thief (only available in the remade versions for SNES and Game Boy Color)
- Fighter
- Jester
- Sage (Not available as an initial class)
Final Fantasy
Final Fantasy I
- Fighter/Warrior 戦士
- Black Belt/Monk モンク
- White Mage 白魔術士
- Black Mage 黒魔術士
- Red Mage 赤魔術士
- Thief シーフ
- Knight ナイト
- Master マスターモンク
- White Wizard 白魔導士
- Black Wizard 黒魔導士
- Red Wizard 赤魔導士
- Ninja 忍者
Final Fantasy IV
- Dark Knight 暗黒騎士
- Dragoon 竜騎士
- Sage 賢者
- Monk モンク
- Bard 吟遊詩人
- White Mage 白魔術士
- Black Mage 黒魔術士
- Caller 召喚士
- Ninja 忍者
- Paladin パラディン
Final Fantasy V
- Alchemist 薬師
- Bard 吟遊詩人
- Berserker バーサーカー
- Caller 召喚士
- Dragoon 竜騎士
- White Mage 白魔導士
- Black Mage 黒魔導士
- Red Mage 赤魔導士
- Blue Mage 青魔導士
- Dancer 踊り子
- Fighter 戦士
- Geomancer 風水士
- Hunter 狩人
- Mime 物真似士
- Ninja 忍者
- Samurai 侍
- Thief シーフ
- Time Mage 時魔導士
Final Fantasy Tactics
- Squire
- Chemist
- Knight
- Archer
- Priest
- Wizard
- Monk
- Thief
- Time Mage
- Oracle
- Geomancer
- Lancer
- Mediator
- Summoner
- Samurai
- Ninja
- Calculator
- Dancer
- Bard
- Mime
Special Classes
- Holy Knight (Agrias & Delita)
- Engineer (Mustadio & Balk)
- Heaven Knight (Rafa)
- Hell Knight (Malak)
- Divine Knight (Meliadoul)
- Holy Swordsman (Orlandu)
- Temple Knight (Beowulf)
- Holy Dragon (Reis)
- Dragoner (Reis)
- Soldier (Cloud)
NPC/Enemy Classes
- Cleric (Alma)
- Dark Knight (Gafgarion)
- Astronomer (Olan)
- Princess (Ovelia)
- Arc Knight (Zalbag & Elmdor)
- Holy Priest (Zalmo)
- Knight Blade (Izlude)
- Rune Knight (Dycedarg) (incorrectly translated as "Lune Knight")
- Sorceror (Kletian)
- White Knight (Wiegraf)
- Assassin (Celia & Lede)
Other
- Animist
- Beast Master
- Bishop
- Defender
- Elementalist
- Fencer
- Gadgeteer
- Gladiator
- Gunner
- Illusionist
- Juggler
- Mog Knight
- Morpher
- Mystic Knight
- Onion Knight
- Scholar
- Shaman
- Sniper
- Templar
- Trainer
- Viking
- Warlock
- Warrior
- White Monk
Fire Emblem
Dragon of Darkness and Sword of Light (Famicom) / Monshou no Nazo (Super Famicom)
- Base Class → Promoted Class
You can get all of these classes on your team unless stated otherwise.
- Social Knight (Cavalier) → Paladin (can dismount only in Super Famicom version)
- Armor Knight (Knight) → General
- Pegasus Knight → Dragon Knight (Wyvern Rider)
- Commando
- Thief
- Fighter
- Pirate (cannot join your team on Super Famicom version)
- Knight (Super Famicom version only)
- Mercenary → Hero
- Mage → Priest/Priestess
- Monk/Cleric → Priest/Priestess
- Lord
- Archer → Sniper
- Hunter → Horseman
- Soldier (Super Famicom only, enemy only)
- Shooter
- Mamkute
- Dancer (Super Famicom only)
Seisen no Keifu / Thracia 776 (Super Famicom)
Technically, Seisen classes do not have set promotions; rather, each character has a set class they can upgrade to. But they generally follow these lines. The weapon type name (Sword, Axe, Lance, or Arch) in a class name means that the unit is restricted to that type of weapon. "Armor" units are restricted to one type of weapon until promotion.
- Junior Lord → Lord Knight (ally only)
- Free Knight → Forrest Knight (restricted to swords) (Sword Cavalier)
- Axe Knight → Great Knight (restricted to axes) (Axe Cavalier)
- Lance Knight → Duke Knight (restricted to spears) (Spear Cavalier)
- Social Knight → Paladin (male)
- Trobadour → Paladin (female) (Valkyrie)
- Dancer (ally only)
- Bard (ally only) → Sage
- Shaman (ally only) → Sage
- Mage → Mage Knight
- Sword Fighter (Mercenary) (male) → Forrest (Hero) (male)
- Sword Fighter (Myrmidon) (female) → Sword Master (female), except Radney → Forrest
- Sword Master (male)
- Forrest (female)
- Arch Knight (Nomad) → Bow Knight (restricted to bows) (Nomad Trooper)
- Bow Fighter → Sniper
- Fire Mage → Mage Fighter
- Wind Mage → Mage Fighter
- Thunder Mage → Mage Fighter
- Dark Mage (enemy only)
- Thief → Thief Fighter (not like the Assassin in Rekka no Ken)
- Axe Fighter → Warrior
- Barbarian (enemy only)
- Hunter (enemy only)
- Mountain Thief (enemy only)
- Pirate (enemy only)
- Pegasus Rider (enemy only)
- Pegasus Knight → Falcon Knight (Falcoknight)
- Dragon Rider (enemy only)
- Dragon Knight (Wyvern Rider) → Dragon Master (Wyvern Lord)
- Sword Armour → General
- Lance Armour (Knight) → General
- Axe Armour → General
- Bow Armour → General
- Baron (enemy only)
- Emperor (enemy only)
- Prince (ally only) → Master Knight (male) (can use any type of weapon or attack spell except dark magic)
- Princess (ally only) → Master Knight (female) (can use any type of weapon, spell, or staff except dark magic)
- Queen (enemy only)
- Priest → High Priest
- Bishop (enemy only)
- Dark Bishop (enemy only)
- Civilian (NPC only)
- Child (NPC only)
- Long Arch (enemy only)
- Iron Arch (enemy only)
- Killer Arch (enemy only)
- Gold Arch (enemy only)
- Soldier, Spear Soldier, Axe Soldier, Archer, Sword Soldier (Thracia 776 only)
- Dark Prince (enemy only)
--- Add extra T776 classes here
Sword of Seals (6) / Blazing Sword (7) (Gameboy Advance)
- Lord (Roy -- Sword of Seals) (Swords) → Master Lord (Restricted to Swords)
- Lord (Hector -- Blazing Sword) (Axes) → Great Lord (Axes, Swords)
- Lord (Lyn -- Blazing Sword) (Swords) → Blade Lord (Swords, Bows)
- Lord (Eliwood -- Blazing Sword) (Swords) → Knight Lord (Swords, Lances)
- Cavalier (Swords, Lances) → Paladin (Swords, Lances, Axes)
- Knight (Lances) → General (Lances, Axes)
- Nomad (Bows) → Nomad Trooper (Bows, Swords)
- Bandit (Axes) → Berserker (Axes) (Bandit available only in Sword of Seals)
- Pirate (Axes) → Berserker (Axes)
- Shaman (Dark Magic) → Druid (Dark Magic, Staves)
- Monk (Light Magic) (Male Only) → Bishop (Light Magic, Staves) (Male)
- Cleric (Staves) (Female Only) → Bishop (Staves, Light Magic) (Female)
- Mage (Anima Magic) → Sage (Anima Magic, Staves)
- Fighter (Axes) → Warrior (Axes, Bows)
- Mercenary (Swords) → Hero (Swords, Axes)
- Myrmidon (Swords) → Swordmaster (Swords)
- Troubadour (Staves) → Valkyrie (Staves, Anima Magic)
- Thief (Swords) (Both Games) → Assassin (Swords) (Blazing Sword only)
- Wyvern Rider (Lances) → Wyvern Lord (Lances, Swords)
- Pegasus Knight (Lances) → Falcoknight (Lances, Swords)
- Dark Druid (Enemy only) (All Magic)
- Archsage (Athos only) (All Magic)
- Soldier (Enemy or NPC only) (Lances)
- Archer (Bows) → Sniper (Bows)
- Bard (Male only) (Nils, in Blazing Sword; Elphin, in Sword of Seals)
- Dancer (Female only) (Ninian, in Blazing Sword; Lalam, in Sword of Seals)
- Magic Seal (Enemy only)
- Mamkute (Sword of Seals only -- Fa only)
- Prince (Blazing Sword only -- NPC, Zephiel only)
- Emperor (Sword of Seals only -- Enemy, Zephiel only)
Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones (Gameboy advance)
- Lord (Eirik) → Master Lord (restricted to Swords)
- Lord (Ephraim) → Master Lord (restricted to Lances)
- Mamkute (Myrrh)
- Journeyman (Ross) → Pirate or Fighter or Journeyman (upon completion of game only)
- Recruit (Amelia) → Social Knight or Armour Knight or Recruit (upon completion of game only)
- Pupil (Ewan) → Mage or Shaman or Pupil (upon completion of game only)
- Thief (Colm) → Rogue (+ Pick skill (no keys)) or Assassin (+ Silencer skill (OHKO))
- Myrmidon → Swordmaster (+ 15% critical bonus) or Assassin (+ Silencer skill (OHKO))
- Pirate → Berserker (+ 15% critical bonus or Warrior (bow)
- Fighter → Warrior (bow) or Hero (sword)
- Mercenary → Hero (+ axe) or Ranger (+ bow)
- Archer (Neimi) → Ranger (+ Sword) or Sniper (+ Sure Shot skill (guaranteed hit))
- Cavalier → Paladin or Great Knight (+axe)
- Knight → Great Knight (+sword and axe) or General (+ sword,axe, and Big Shield skill (ignore damage))
- Mage (Lute) → Sage (+ Staves and Light magic) or Mage Knight (+ Staves)
- Troubadour (Female only -- Rachel only) → Mage Knight (+ Staff) or Valkyrie (+ Light magic)
- Cleric (Female only -- Natasha only) → Bishop or Valkyrie (+ Light magic)
- Monk (male only -- Artur only) → Bishop (+ Monster killer Skill) or Sage (+ staff magic and Anima magic)
- Priest (Male only -- Moulder only)→ Bishop (+ Monster killer Skill) or Sage (+ staff magic and elemental magic)
- Shaman (Knoll) → Druid (+ Anima magic) or Summoner (+ Summon skill)
- Wyvern Knight (Cormag) → Wyvern Lord (+ sword) or Wyvern Knight (+ Pierce skill (ignore enemy defense))
- Pegasus Knight → Falcon Knight (+ Sword) or Wyvern Knight (+ Pierce skill (ignore enemy defense))
- Necromancer (enemy only)
- Soldier (enemy only)
Fire Emblem: Souen no kiseki (Gamecube)
- Ranger (Ike) → Lord
- Sword fighter → Sword master
- Archer → Sniper
- Fighter → Worrior
- Armor knight (Knight) → General
- Sword knight → Paladin (They can wield lance, bow, or axe in addition when upgraded)
- Lance knight → Paladin (They can wield sword, bow, or axe in addition when upgraded)
- Bow knight → (You can wield lance, sword, or axe in addition when upgraded)
- Axe knight → Paladin (They can wield lance, sword, or bow in addirinon when upgraded)
- Pegasus knight → Falcon knight
- Dragon knight → Dragon master
- Mage → Sage (They can wield lightweight weapon in addition when upgraded.
- Cleric (Mist only) → Valkyrie (They can wield sword on addition when upgraded.
- Thief → Assassin (Folca only)
- Soldier → Halpadire
- Berserker
- Birds → Crow, Falcon, or Heron (Rysion only)
- Beasts → Cat, tiger, lion or red dragon
- Dragons
- Cremean Princess (Enlincia only)
- Deinan King (Ashnard only)
Other games
There are many games with character classes (the articles on these games include information about the classes they use):
- Diablo and Diablo II
- Lord of the Rings Roleplaying Game
- Middle-earth Role Playing
- Phantasy Star Online