What type of character do yo play?

[idahongo]

It's been a long time since i played Arcanum and i was wondering what type of character do you play?Thief,warrior,mage or something different.

[The Eyes of Evi]

I've completed it with a half-elf blacksmith/fighter, a female elf debutante mage, a halfling throw-focussed thief and an idiot savant human engineer.

[Deadalready]

My favourite types tend to be either craftsmen or thieves, mages just don't suit my tastes. Thieves I really enjoy, however they are quite weak for a long portion of the game (that's possibly why I like them).

[the shape]

In terms of power play the most powerful I've created was a half-ogre backstab mage. Weaken seems to ease my hth combat a lot if I ever bother to use it on top of the imba half-ogre bonus damage.

Other than that I enjoy playing an evil half-orc slicing my way up with the Bangelian Scourge.

On the tech side a bow/melee hybrid was most entertaining.

I don't really understand what a thief consists of, because I guess he'll probably be using melee/dodge skills anyway and once you have that the backstab skill provides with an excellent spice to it to be left ignored. Most of my chars have 2 points of pickpocket anyway since it makes the game so much easier considering all the keys and stuff people tend to wear, not to mention the thief quests. Well... that's all I can think of for now I guess.

[Deadalready]

Well the thieves I play tend to rely on backstab and Prowling, at max prowl level the character can run without slowing down and becomes invisible to all monsters and characters. Then by standing behind someone and hitting them, it tends to instant kill most monsters.

Prowling is really bizzare at mastery level.

However backstab seems to be tied with melee and a low melee means missed backstabs (annoying and logical).

There are quite a few variations to the thief class though.

[GawainBS]

Most of the times, I play a melee Fighter/Mage, which is by far the most powerful character you can get, I think.
I also enjoyed my gunsmith.
I also tried a tech melee dwarf. He was ok, but got a bit boring after a while.
Next up is a thief/technologist.

[Crougher]

Half-elven, Famale, Wizard (force and transport school). Reputation: -100
I was investing in dodge and melee too.

[Darth_Bunny101]

The first character I played was a half-elf melee/mage but that didn't work so well for me. The first character I completed the game with was a butt-ugly dwarf technologist with wicked guns and firearm skills. At the moment I have quite a few chars. on the go including a neutral-ish aptitude half elf archer, a 100% evil and magic Dark Elf, another neutral-ish aptitude char but this time he's a halfling thief and a big dumb half Ogre who tries to be good but sometimes doesn't understand the situation and ends up doing evil.
I must say that Bodge (my idiot Ogre) is great for dialogue but the amount of missions I've missed out on...and the fact I can't even TALK to the peeps at P. Schyler and Sons is annoying. Evil is great , again for dialogue, but similar story problems occur though these can be overcome, for the most part anyway, by chucking points in CH and Persuasion. And...I think I'll shut up now
Hi, BTW!

[zex95966]

I havent done a technologist yet, but i made a dwarf-gunner Miracle operation background and it looks pretty nice. All i did was make him i haven't actually played him yet though.

My very first chr was a half elf Magick/mellee chr with a lot in chr. it was ok i guess but i uninstalled the game thinking i wouldnt play him again and alas he is gone now.

I'm also working on an ogre...Thief? sounds terrible but i made him have a feral child background which also negates the prowling deduction on ogres, and he gets lots of dex, str, plus ogres are just mean, and i have him working on pickpocket and picklock skills. I dunno how a big guy like that sneaks up behind you and hits you but he does!

Charisma is prob my fav thing, in fact it's almost required of all my chrs cuz to me the game isn't as much fun without some followers, and the ability to talk yourself into and out of anything.

[perriman smyth]

I like to play with a pure melle doge type character {half orc"}

[killerschlumpf]

At the moment a halfling with troll-offspring, dex 22, dodge master, meele master, backstab master, prowling master, pick pocket master; spot trap apprentice, using the spell "hasten", no followers.
I use some "arcane" stuff and the finger of mannox, the dagger of speed/the sword you get in the pit(?) and enchanted war boots.

Before i tried a (solo) halfling thief with the pyrotechnic bow and dynamite, also a very powerfull char.

I like solo chars

[TwoHandedSword]

I prefer to play without followers, and am something of a min-maxer. (No rotten tomatoes, please! )

So I've played everything from an elven mage who ran away with the circus, to a human escaped lunatic (for the bonuses), to a dwarf technologist beaten with the ugly stick (so I could still get to 20 DX).

Except for the dwarf, who took Virgil plus every dwarven follower available in the game, almost all of my characters are solo tank mages: I use spells for healing, protection and enhancement (like Hasten, Purity of Water and Blur Sight) rather than to attack.

I also love Haggle; it lets me convert spoils into cash without having to drag my inventory all over the map! So my current favorite character is a Gnome professional knife tosser; by the time I've left Shrouded Hills, I've cleaned out Bessie Toome's mine and power-shopped the local wise woman for a mystical chakram that pretty much cuts Lukan's entire clan's heads clean off - often in three rounds or less!

[Morgan Terror]

Right now i have a magic-allergic dwarf with an elephant gun. It looks pretty hilarious, since the muzzle flame that comes out is as big as himself! I wish it had more of a cannon-like sound though. Would be even funnier if you'd get knocked back a square with every shot, something i can imagine pretty well with Mr. shorty here.

[mitio]

My first char was a half-elf mage with transport, mental and white necro schools, who used melee dodge persuasion and pickpocket, but he wasn't quite good. Then I played with a halfling thief tech with electricity mechanics and smith, who used melee and dodge again, and pickpocket, pick-lock, backstab and prowling. He was alright as a build and was powerful in using found schematics, but needed more XP to advance with so much skills, attributes and disciplines on his head. Now, I play with female for a change, a human tech with gunsmith and explosives, who uses firearms, repair, and persuasion (and I'm thinking about adding some dodge in case someone gets near me).

[Majorman]

The first time I completed the game I used a bizarre combination. I played a human female with "Charlatan's Protege" feat and, unsurprisingly, maxed Charisma and Persuasion. That meant that I hardly took part in battle during the game. All I did was picking locks and doing the talking. Basically, Dex and Cha are the most important skills in the game. The final baddy was dead long before I could even reach him.
That's why I LOVE this game. You can actually talk your way through. Oh, and hangin' around with dwarven and elven royalty is really good for one's reputation.

P.S. Oh, I maxed Dex for speed and Dodge eventually, and Melee at the very end of the game, though I never used used it, cause my Strength sucked anyway.