Classes are used to describe your character’s natural talents. This may or may not have anything to do with your character’s profession — for example, not all rogues are thieves and not all scholars are spell casters.

Your own physical characteristics and abilities need not match those of your chosen character but it can help you in your adventuring career if your actual physical skills are congruent with your character’s fantasy skills. The NERO® system does allow players to play characters that are very different from themselves and still be able to prosper.

You must pick one of these classes:

Fighters take naturally to the physical combat arts and rely mainly on strength and stamina to accomplish their goals. They can wear almost any type of armor.

Rogues have a natural bent towards dexterity based skills, and also the practice of alchemy. Rogues are limited in how much armor they can wear. The lower Body Points, lighter armor and relatively high costs for combat skills does not make them well suited for front line combat roles

Scholars are adept at many mental skills and readily learn the magical arts. Scholars are even more limited in how many Armor Points they can use than are Rogues.

Templars are spell-casters who are somewhat more adept than scholars at physical combat skills. They are not religious in any way; NERO specifically prohibits religion in the game. Their combat training leaves them better able to fight but takes away from their studies. They cannot use as many Armor Points as Fighters, but can use more than Rogues or Scholars.