Drakensang: Build my character!

No one has any suggestions? I really do need help picking a character D:

do a summoner so you can chill back and let them kill the hostiles ;D

i say Archer cause that's the most fun class in this type of games o-o

A paladin with 18 charisma and 97 HP

Or a black guy.

I always play as a rogue type character. Must open all the chests!!

I'll need to download that when my cap resets.

I would recommend against rouge-type characters in Drakensang (its prequel, River of Time is another story though, there rogues are good).

It is important to note that no class forces you into any given playstyle, though their starting skills will encourage you to play a certain way. There are some things that are limited by your character class though. Characters are not spell-trained can't use certain spells. This includes the Charlatan, who is in fact a limited mage.

If you want to go the magic-user rout, then I would recommend focusing more on summons & buffs/debuffs than damage spells. Damage spells feel a bit underpowered. Also, read up on what spells you actually want to use. There is some overlap between them, and you can't mass-summon (once summon can be active at any given time), which means that spending points in multiple summons might be a bad idea.

As for what to play, I found the Metamage to be fun.

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You might be interested in knowing what character classes you'll be able to recruit, before deciding. The recruitable characters have the following classes: Charlatan, Fighter (relatively late), Alchemist (very late), Rogue, Mercenary, Spellweaver (relatively late), Archer (late), Amazon, Battlemage (relatively late)

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A Dwarf obviously. A badass Dwaven blacksmith in a sexy leather apron.

Go burglar, so you can sneak around and steal everyone's stuff! Then use whatever awesome stuff you find to breeze through combat.

Disclaimer: Having never played the game, I have no idea how much stuff there is to steal or if it's of any practical use.