The age-old poll

[Rob-hin]

This is the oldest d&d question, but we don't have it yet so, here it goes.

What is your favorite class and why?

[Galuf the Dwarf]

I'll take a slice of Paladin, please.

Paladin. He's a combination of a stalwart Fighter and a benign Cleric, along with some nifty special abilities, such as removing diseases, fear, laying their hands (which can almost become more reliable than quite a few healing spells somewhere along the line), and the Smite Evil ability.

Of course, I'm also a sucker for the real heroic types as well.

[Rob-hin]

Paladins are cool, I agree, but IMO they are too restricted.

I like the rogue myself, not sure why. I like the versetilisme (sp?) and using my brain instead of magic or musles. But combined with magic, rogues are really cool.

Besides, the coolest characters I came up with are were rogues, they just have a 'Je ne sais pas' about them.

Through, they are not strong in a fight, used properly they improve though, but that is what's cool about them. The class forces you to think before you act.

edit: Guess I do know why I like 'em.

[Gevaudan'sBeast]

@Rob-hin - I agree with all your reasons for choosing a rogue, but for the heck of it I will reiterate them myself . I choose rogues because they offer more of a challenge then a straight fighter, and they offer more of a diverse roleplaying perspective in my opinion. I also am a sucker for being able to sneak around and aid people in the mis-appropriation of their goods .

[dragon wench]

I really like monks because they are so self-sufficient without the hindrance of armour or big heavy weapons. IMO it is very cool to have an extremely powerful, stealthy and agile character that can flatten most enemies with just a few punches or kicks

I also enjoy playing rogues and mages.

For some reason I can't roleplay paladins, bards or druids very well.

[Rob-hin]

It's kind of funny DW, in the story I DM'ed, you were a dragon druid with a fearydragon as a familiar.

Monk's are very cool indeed, they hardly need any magic items so they have tons of money to spend on one cool item. They are very hard to hit, but they aren't very good on the offensive.


@GB (Gevaudan'sBeast, not Gamebanshee )
I like sneaking too, it often helps character get a lott of information that they would normally miss.

[Xandax]

If we talk about which type of character I would most like to roleplay in a D&D game - it would be a magic user. I couldn't really choose between the sorcerer or the wizard if needs be, because both appeal to me on each their own. They open up a lot of oppertunities for me, in regards of character development and motivations.
I've even once in online NwN tried to roleplay a mute sorcerer (meta-magic in 3.ed rules are nice) - that was quite demanding on me.

I least like to roleplay Druids - I've never quite gotten the hang of the "balance" thingy

Paladins are boring to roleplay, but not terrible difficult, in my oppinion. It just gets boring doing the "right" thing all the time, and it is rather dangerous for ones character.

[Halsy]

You didn't have necromancer, so I voted monk. Szass Tam is the greatest.

[Rob-hin]

Necromancer is a wizard presige class.

[Mr.Waesel]

clerics. They are awesome, and incredibly powerful.

second: druid, for the same reasons.

[Rob-hin]

Really?
I played a druid once but he was a big wuss. I've been thinking about playing a hippy druid in the future but I was afraid he'd be weak too. Perhaps I should just give it a go.

[Mr.Waesel]

Now that the druid gets the animal type when wildshaping, all those buffs (nature's favor, animal growth, nature's avatar) work on him as well, making you a killing machine.

[Lost One]

Now that the druid gets the animal type when wildshaping, all those buffs (nature's favor, animal growth, nature's avatar) work on him as well, making you a killing machine.

I thought some of these spells only worked on the druid's animal companions. I'm pretty sure animal growth doesn't work on the druid, since your druid is not inherently an animal.

But yeah, my vote goes to...taddamm......sorcerers/wizards! Basically, with these two classes, you don't run out of role-playing options, and best of all, spells allow you to use the full extent of your creativity (that is, if you're not going simply for a power mage). I remember I had an elven ranger/necromancer (heh, we called him Digger...he would dig to bury bodies or dig to place traps...always carried a shovel with him), anyway, he snuck up to this building once, where there was a little girl sleeping on the second floor behind this window. I don't recall why now, but I wanted to wake her up for some reason, so I kinda used prestidigitation with dancing lights with maybe some minor illusion to project some freaky sounding phantasmal thing at her window that wake her up. Anyway, I don't think she was too scared being a vampire herself (which we didn't know...who would think a little, innocent girl would be a vampire..but it certainly waked her and then, it was a long start to a vampiric tale...).
Or this other time at a castle, we (low-level chars) were being ganged by these soldiers way high up on a castle, and the only way to flee was going down. With this half-orc barbarian/sorcerer, I made everyone in the party jump from the high wall as I casted feather fall on them when they neared the ground.
Spells have so many uses, it's not funny. And who doesn't love MAGIC.

On a side note, I like rogues too, but I have a love for multi-class characters. Mage/rogues or mage/fighters are my particular favourites. It's a passion for this all-round knowledge that's cool.

[Halsy]

[QUOTE=Rob-hin]Necromancer is a wizard presige class. [/QUOTE]

Yes, but you could say that for almost everything listed. The four archetypes are wizard, warrior, priest, and thief. Everything else is a prestige class.

[Rob-hin]

Well, yes, but that's waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay back.
I used 3.5 classes, but I had to put wizard en sorcerer together because the poll only allowes 10 choises.