Character type is the core of your character. Your type helps determine your character's place in the world and relationship with other people in the setting. It's the noun of the sentence “I am an adjective noun who verbs.”
Since the type is the basis upon which your whole character is built, it's important to consider how the type relates to the chosen setting. To help with this, types are actually general archetypes. A Warrior, for example, might be anyone from a knight in shining armor to a cop on the streets to a grizzled cybernetic veteran of a thousand futuristic wars.
To further massage the four types for better use in various settings, different methods called flavors are provided to help slightly tailor the types toward fantasy, science fiction, or other genres (or to address different character concepts).
Sword & Sorcery |
Epic Fantasy |
Hard Science Fiction |
Space Opera |
Postapocalypse |