IC terms for classes

[Maestro3P]

For a wizard or a champion of a certain deity, it's easy. Those terms are known in-game. A character can call himself a wizard and everyone will know what he means.
But what about barbarians, rogues, dwarven defenders, pale masters, sacred fists, shadowdancers, spellswords and weapon masters? Are those terms known to characters?

[Aphel]

I doubt that somebody would say "I am a " in terms of defining what she or he is doing, or doing well. The mechanical classes are often just representations for skills somebody has (sneaking well, fighting exceptionally well with a single type of weapon), and using a certain word for them might, in the Layonara context, do not make much sense. And from a RP perspective even less: while the names of some classes are known simply as names, others might be not. Or might never be used in that context.

[Maestro3P]

Okay, thanks for the clarification

[Alatriel]

There's a post in here somewhere that was pretty good on that subject, but I couldn't find it on a brief search.  Of all of the classes, probably most of them you can use your class as your profession:  Fighter (or soldier, brawler, swordsman- up to you), Paladin, Wizard, Sorcerer, Cleric, etc.

The only one that's really tricky is Rogue.  Rogue isn't actually a profession because there's tons of different types of rogues.  Sneaks, diplomats, politicians, thiefs, acrobats, performers, pickpockets, lock specialists, thugs, enforcers, etc.  Barbarians even may not necessarily call themselves that, but everyone else might.

Spellswords I've often heard called Spellblades, so it's not too far off of Spellsword.  Sorcerers have often been called many names as well, but they're still sorcerers.  (Witch, Bloodmage).  There are some paladins who refuse to call themselves paladins, but it is an in-game and known term.  Sometimes they're called "blessed" or "chosen" and some people simply call themselves Knights (though we actually have another PrC called Knight and that's something different) and in the Rofirein church, they actually may BE knights.  (Knights of the Wyrm).


Hopefully that helps.  If not, I'll try again after I've had some coffee

[RollinsCat]

Bards are also hard to categorize because while some are the typical musician (mine, for example) others draw, dance, or have other artistic endeavors that defy the definition (see below); some eschew arts altogether and focus on the lore side as an information conduit, or the rogue-ish side, and some end up skalds/fighters that only use their talents to destroy enemies.  You can't really call many of these variants "bards" so...

fyi, applying our rl definition:

"The word is a loanword from Scottish Gaelic, deriving from Proto-Celtic bardos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European root "to raise the voice; praise". The first recorded example in English is in 1449, Lowland Scots, denoting an itinerant musician, usually with a contemptuous connotation.

Secondly, in medieval Gaelic and Welsh society, a bard was a professional poet, employed to compose eulogies for his lord. If the employer failed to pay the proper amount, the bard would then compose a satire. In other Indo-European societies, the same function was fulfilled by skalds, rhapsodes, minstrels and scops, among others, offices that may sometimes also be subsumed under the term "bard" by extension."

Italics mine, borrowed from Wikipedia.