Favorite Class

[Chi]

What is everyones favorite class to play? While I am Partial to Rogue, I am trying a fighter right now because my fellow player is doing some magic.

[drewshi]

It's a tossup between rangers and illusionists.

[mrken]

My favorite class is a fighter type. Fighter, Paladin, Cavalier, Ranger sometimes Cleric or Rogue. I've only played a mage once and while it was a pretty cool character once was enough. I don't think the Archer is a class any longer but it was quite fun while it lasted.

[Thriondel Half-Elven]

i like the Ranger class the best. though i played both a wizard and a fighter at the same time. in the same game

[ronpyatt]

I like the new archer class. Makes me think I should look back to the old Archer class to see what was up with it. However, it is the old illusionist class that has been my favorite.

[Ben Rostoker]

I always loved the Bard. I love being the support and Bards are rarely used.

[Thriondel Half-Elven]

I always loved the Bard. I love being the support and Bards are rarely used.

they are rarely used. why is that?

[Chi]

I like the new archer class. Makes me think I should look back to the old Archer class to see what was up with it. However, it is the old illusionist class that has been my favorite.
Never heard of that

[Oedipussy Rex]

Rogue? Rogue? What is this - Rogue - nonesense. Give me an good, old-fashioned, stab-them-in-the-neck Thief.

[Grandore The Giant Killer]

My favorite classes are Barbarian because they are powerhouse take out the trash brutes or War Mage because they bring a good balance of spells and offense to the table.

[Kalanth]

Regardless of edition, as long as it has been a class I have been in love with the Cleric. I always play the more agressive, mace wiedling, spell slinging battle cleric that does heal. Nothing makes me happy like slapping a heal down on the fighter, then crushing the head in of the charging orc. :)

[Chi]

Today I am starting my first ever Druid. Can't wait to see how this turns out.

[tesral]

No real favorite. I've played them all, enjoyed them all.

[Skunkape]

Generally I play a fighter type, whether it be an actual fighter, or a ranger or paladin, but one of my current characters is a 9th level rogue, which has finally taken 2 levels of fighter so that I can be a duelist.

[Webhead]

My favorite class has changed from edition to edition.

In Basic D&D, my favorite class was Elf. The predecessor to the fighter/mage. Second choice was Thief.

In AD&D 2e, my favorite class was Ranger. Perhaps it was the "sneaky fighter" style that attracted me to the class. Again, second choice was Thief.

In D&D 3e, my favorite class was Wizard. Wizards were a lot less sucky at low levels in 3e. True to form, Rogue would probably have been my second choice.

Haven't played 4e so I couldn't say. Wizard looks like it kicks butt in 4e though.

[mrken]

I always loved the Bard. I love being the support and Bards are rarely used.


While I never liked to play the Bard myself but I really like a Bard character once that a friend played. She could sing, something I can't do, and she could write poetry and songs. She really made the character rock. Was a very cool one.

[Webhead]

While I never liked to play the Bard myself but I really like a Bard character once that a friend played. She could sing, something I can't do, and she could write poetry and songs. She really made the character rock. Was a very cool one.

I had a similar experience...a friend who played a Bard in one of our 2e games who pulled it off spectacularly. He was witty enough to come up with battlechants and songs off the top of his head and made a far better bard than I'm sure I ever could have.

[Webhead]

All this talk of favorite classes has me really wanting to play a Thief again. Not a Rogue...a Thief. *sigh*

[mrken]

I had a similar experience...a friend who played a Bard in one of our 2e games who pulled it off spectacularly. He was witty enough to come up with battlechants and songs off the top of his head and made a far better bard than I'm sure I ever could have.


If I played the Bard, the spelling would have to change, to Barf. :(

[DMMike]

All this talk of favorite classes has me really wanting to play a Thief again. Not a Rogue...a Thief. *sigh*

Do you really want to deal with the percentage chances to thieve properly, instead of ranks/modifiers, Webhead? (Thieve is a verb, right?)

I really can't pick a favorite class. There's too much potential coming from different classes to pick a favorite. My least favorite of the core classes is the monk, mostly because of genre issues.

Don't even get me started on multiclassing - once I start thinking about that, it adds days onto the class decision process.

[Volcatius]

I myself have not had the privlige of anything before 3rd edition, but i am partial to Ranger, occasionally multiclassing to rogue.

Secondly behind them though, i am partially to playing telepaths (from the expanded Psionics handbook), i think psions solved what i veiwed as the problem with wizards and sorcerers, lack of magical endurance. The Psion was a cross-country runner, the wizard/sorcerer a sprinter (at least in my humble opinion).

[DMMike]

I myself have not had the privlige of anything before 3rd edition, but i am partial to Ranger, occasionally multiclassing to rogue.

Secondly behind them though, i am partially to playing telepaths (from the expanded Psionics handbook), i think psions solved what i veiwed as the problem with wizards and sorcerers, lack of magical endurance. The Psion was a cross-country runner, the wizard/sorcerer a sprinter (at least in my humble opinion).

Enter the reserve feat (check out Complete Mage). Or failing that coolness, best to cook up some scrolls and wands.

Wizards are actually good contenders for my favorite class, but only if they specialize under 3E rules. Throw in some levels of binder, rogue, or even cleric, and you have a start on an awesome character (class).

[Webhead]

Do you really want to deal with the percentage chances to thieve properly, instead of ranks/modifiers, Webhead?

Yeah, I'm cool with it. I just have many fond memories of playing a Thief in 2e. The Rogue class was pretty decent in 3e, but it didn't seem quite the same.

[Chi]

I just watched Wrath of the Dragon God and it has me wanting to make a charecter similar to Melora.

[Radex Wingrider]

The only two class in 3e I wouldn't play are the Paladin and Barbarian. Those aside I tend toward the Bard class, but not because of his abilities. I like the Bard because he's a jack-of-all-trades. I usually have a hard time choosing classes because I'm a generalist. The Bard could cast spells as a sorcerer, fight like a rogue, and came by a wide variety of skills that he could mix and match.

Second favorite would have been the ranger, IF animal companions weren't so needlessly complicated.

I also played an Archer during a ADnD 2e game that lasted about two years.

[Kalanth]

Wow... am I really the only one that loves the cleric above all else? Interesting.

[Chi]

Wow... am I really the only one that loves the cleric above all else? Interesting.
I don't think that I have ever even played with a cleric before. That would be intersting and fun!

[tesral]

I don't think that I have ever even played with a cleric before. That would be intersting and fun!

Cleric can be fun. YOu have ot get into it and not be a walking band-aid box.

"Indeed my son, if you were not a patsy for strong drink I would not by the Mercy of the First Bob be healing thee now."

[Thriondel Half-Elven]

yes with a cleric you can't fall into the stereotypical mind set: "ok i'm the cleric so my job is to heal."

that won't be much fun. although my sister did have fun playing a cleric like that. i almost forgot she played.

[Chi]

yes with a cleric you can't fall into the stereotypical mind set: "ok i'm the cleric so my job is to heal."

that won't be much fun. although my sister did have fun playing a cleric like that. i almost forgot she played.
I would not want to be a healer I want to jump feet first into battle.

[Webhead]

I would not want to be a healer I want to jump feet first into battle.

Any cleric worth his holy water is good at both...and is deathly afraid of doorways and window sills. Don't ask...;)

[DMMike]

Yup, the cleric can wear heavy armor and turn undead for a reason - to get him in the thick of things. Plus, Cure spells have a touch range sooo...go feet first.

[Kalanth]

Nothing bothers me more than a cleric wearing robes and hanging in the back. I never memorized healing spells (short of Heal) when I played a 3.5 cleric. Being able to swap a spell out to heal was a huge benefit to a battle cleric so you could memorize usefull defensive and attack spells and then dump them if you needed to.

[Chi]

Man I guess I still have a lot to learn!

[Thriondel Half-Elven]

Man I guess I still have a lot to learn!


:biggrin:

[Zeneak]

My Favorite is the rogue honestly, i dump my largest stat into int and grab as much skill points as i can get first level, something about breaking and entering is just so fun for me. aside from that i like Wizards, Rangers, and Druid/Clerics in about that order when i'm playing.

[MuslixtheMighty]

My very first D&D class was Dwarf. Fighter had always been my favorite through the editions but when 3rd came out, I fell into the arms of the "Monk" class.

[Skunkape]

My very first D&D class was Dwarf. Fighter had always been my favorite through the editions but when 3rd came out, I fell into the arms of the "Monk" class.

I know what version you started with!:D

[Webhead]

I know what version you started with!:D

...back when Dwarf, Elf and Halfling were classes! ;)

[MortonStromgal]

I really like the Bard but I usually end up as the Cleric because frankly I don't mind being a Cleric. Our Fighter once was shocked that my Cleric had a better to hit and defense than he did, it just took me 3 rounds to get there.

[Jcosby]

My favorite class to play is a GM. :)

When I'm playing I'm almost always a Dwarven Fighter.

[Zeneak]

I really like the Bard but I usually end up as the Cleric because frankly I don't mind being a Cleric. Our Fighter once was shocked that my Cleric had a better to hit and defense than he did, it just took me 3 rounds to get there.

I just looked over a build cause i had free time, the most rediculous combination of classes for 3.5 i am looking at is a cleric-wizard-mystic theurge. you miss out on a lot of little bonus feets but all in all the raw amount of spell power is rediculous. also i did the math, if you get 5 cleric/ 5 wizard/ 10 thuerge you get access to both divine and arcane lvl 8 spells. wont ever make it to lvl 9 spells unless if you go past 20 though

what bothers me most though is the meta gaming involved with coming up with this class, then i made a cleric who warshiped the got of mages.. and it made sense XD no meta gaming needed he would naturally try to branch out as a mage.

[DMMike]

But does it make sense to the other player who takes 20 levels of wizard, only to end up with about half the spellcasting power as the mystic theurge?

I stay away from prestige classes for reasons like this and many others.

[raven21]

Thief and every now and then Bard just for the hell of it, but first and formost Thief

[Zeneak]

The only reason why i'm takin'g the class is because the Wizard is going arcane archer. prestige classes are best when they work together in the party.

[nijineko]

my favorite class is beholder mage. after that i like the psionic classes: psion, erudite, soulknife, psychic warrior, wilder. i prefer sorcerers over wizards, especially with knowstones, pearls of power, runestaffs, and memento magicas.

otherwise i enjoy trying out many different concepts just to see how they work. i pretty much have a big list of concepts i want to try, and eventually find campaigns for them all. =D

[wbrandel]

I have always been partial to the wizard class. At low levels it is a stuggle to stay alive, but at the mid-high level they are hard to beat with the offensive and defensive spells at their disposal