Dark Souls had most votes(when counting my vote) On my poll. So, I'm walkthroughing it. Starting off with the characters.
Imma start with the one I picked. Pyromancer. The pyromancer starts with pyromancy flame and, fireball. I think. I don't have time to play through a new one and see right now. Do that later. This, the pyromancy, very helpful early and once leveled, the entire game. Through all playthroughs. However, aside from start stat boost, every item certain characters start with can be aquired through the game with any character. I.E Master key, pyromancy flame, catalyst, sorry, I forgot what exactly the things you need for miracles are called, I'll check later.
The only thing each character differs from in forever terms is starting lv. The pyromancer is the only character to start at lv 1. It goes from lv 1 to a max off lv 703.
Warning though. Once you hit like lv 110, it cost about 100000 souls to lv up one point, keep that in mind. I suggest lving equipment before stats, it'll be less cost prohibative. Now, imma go replay dark souls with each character to remember what crap they have, exactly. So, I'll continue this blog later.