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I've led a very sheltered life when it comes to MUDs. "Class" to me means "profession"--mage, warrior, thief, etc. Those categories determine your skill sets. A "skill" is something you conciously train, like sword-swinging, spellcasting, lockpicking, and so on. I put racial abilities in a separate category. Shapechanging into a bat isn't a skill. It's an innate ability of vampires that they gain as they age and mature. A werewolf would have different innate racial abilities than a vampire, but they could both be of the same class and therefore have the same skills available to them. My preference is a system where you choose a race, each with different strengths, weaknesses, and unique talents, and can then learn whatever skills you want. It's just the way I look at things. I guess "class" means a lot of different things in a lot of different games. Sometimes it means "profession." Sometimes it means "race." Sometimes it means something else all together.
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