The rpg I was playing back in the old days had a class, what was a rare chance to play. Firstly because the race/faction was living on an island almost impossible to reach, and barely had a chance to anyone leaving that island. However the people there had a long history and deep culture, and amazing sword fighting skills and mental abilities. This race was somewhat like the Japanese, with incredible swordmasters like samurais.

You could try to make a character, but it was nearly impossible to make the GM accept the backstory and the character. However, once I have made an interesting story for a special few-times-to-play-only session, and my character was accepted.

There she is, Donadichi Koyonochu. Where the hell I got this name from, don't ask me (there were some pointers how to make their names but omg). Her nick was "Hesseli", which is some kind of butterfly? Idonno, she's a bit random in the case of names, but I really liked her designs, and the rolls in battle with her were insane. After that, I kind of got the point why GM's aren't letting people playing these Diablo style killing machines.

~2004-ish