@kjdavies Lacking any context, I think each character is distinctive and familiar enough to understand who they are and what they can do.

I'm especially intrigued by "many stoneshapers will shape weapons and armor from available stone rather than carry such gear," and "on the other hand, a human wizard is not able to breath fire, tear his enemies to shreds with his bare hands, nor simply shrug off minor attacks." 👍🏽

@glecharles A higher-level character (level 17, nominal D&D/PF level 9), also using Advantage Dice System (I've got versions of her using a few different rules systems on this blog).

(I was going to put up links to a couple more characters, but I see they're somewhat out of date -- from before the recalibration; most of their dice expressions should be one die bigger -- and because the posts are so old I'd basically need to rewrite them... thanks Wordpress.)

http://www.echelonrpg.com/blog/sample-character-amren-ja-warrior-queen-advantage-dice-system/

@glecharles I imagine few people are familiar with the Advantage Dice System, since I invented it and that blog gets very little traffic :)

Basically, you roll 1-4 dice of varying sizes. Name originally came because you used the highest-value one, but certain applications look for number of times you meet or beat a target number.

You always have one die based on your tier (level band), then can gain 1-3 more from the talents you have.

Explained in more detail at

http://www.echelonrpg.com/core-rules/basics/advantage-dice-system/