Race: Human or Elf
Class: Barbarian & Sorceror (feel free to offer suggestions if I am overlooking a useful class combination for what I want)
Character Premise:
The hero excels in martial prowless. His is quick and agile, so he doesn't wear a wole lot of armor. He more than makes up for this with his ability to evade, parry, and block strikes. He is a sword master, who has very specific innate magical abilities. While he is very disciplined, which was needed in order to master the sword arts, he does give in to periodic spurts of rage (think a surge of adrenaline) while in combat. I have two ideas on the hero, because while both are the same defensively and melee offensively, they differ in the magical department.
Option 1- The hero is telekenetic and uses this ability to stun and/or knockdown his opponents. He can use telekenetic energy in the form of a shield to ward off blows temporarily.
Melee: Uses either a Bastard Sword, Longsword, or Katana.
Defense: Wears little armor if any. Relies on being able to dodge, parry, and block incoming attacks, depending on the attackers strength (ie. he may dodge a powerful attack, while parrying a sword swing, and blocking a punch to the face)
Magic Ability: Uses telekenetic powers to stun foes in combat or knock them down.
Option 2- The hero can call lightning from his finger tips. He uses the lightning to strike down foes from afar and up close. He even has the ability to summon a lightning shield to dmg his foes if they attack him.
Melee: Uses either a Bastard Sword, Longsword, or Katana
Defense: Wears little armor if any. Relies on being able to dodge, parry, and block incoming attacks, depending on the attackers strength (ie. he may dodge a powerful attack, while parrying a sword swing, and blocking a punch to the face).
Magic Ability: Can summon lightning from his hands and fingertips to damage his opponents from afar and up close. Can summon lightning around him as a shield to dmg those who strike him.
Note: Since the hero will be martially oriented, his mana pool will not be big, which means he will have to use his magical energy wisely and tactically. I am a RPer who will plan to play this character with other RPers who will take it slow through dungeons and use tactics to overcome adversity over zerging. I don't expect to top the dmg charts or kill counts, but I would like to be effective. I am more into playing a character through the game, than using a class or combination of classes in an optimized manner to beat the game. I am flexible with the classes, as long as they achieve the same goal. I cose Barbarian, since they are more offensive oriented than the other melee classes and are prone to fits of rage. I chose Sorceror, since I am not looking for a large pool of spells to choose from + the sorceror has innate magical ability like my character.