D&D General March Madness 2024 - Round 2 - Martials

[CleverNickName]

Time for Round 2 of March Madness (D&D Classes) 2024!

Today we're focusing on the right side of the bracket, for the Martials round:

How This Works

• This is the first round of elimination, and it will focus only on the eight "Caster" classes on the left side of the bracket. The "Martial" classes will be next week.
• There are four contests running simultaneously in this bracket: Fighter vs. Swordmage, Ranger vs. Warlord, Paladin vs. Monk, and Rogue vs. Barbarian. This one poll will settle all of them at once.
• Vote for the four classes you would most like to see advance to the next round. Ideally, voters would choose their favorite from each of those four contests (vote for either the Fighter or the Swordmage, not both). But there's no way to force you to do so if you don't want to, and I think it could make for some fun upsets. So vote however you like!
• Vote for any reason you like, too: personal favorite/least favorite, most/least powerful, most/least fun, oldest/newest, most/least played, etc. Vote for whatever you think makes a class worthy of advancing to the quarter-finals.
• When the poll closes, the votes will be applied to the bracket and the one with the most votes wins. Thus, four of the classes will be eliminated, and four will advance to the quarter-final round on March 16th.
• In the event of a tie, the winning class will be determined by alphabetical order.
• For the folks playing to win: each correct guess on your bracket is worth 1 point. Scores will be tallied when the poll closes, and posted to the Leaderboard.
• For the folks playing for fun: you can still post your bracket to the Leaderboard thread. You might not win a prize, but you'll still get to join the party.

Important! Read before voting!

• You won't be able to change your vote once you submit it, so vote with conviction.
• You won't be able to see the poll results until after you vote, so you can vote with clarity.
• Your vote will remain anonymous, so vote with confidence.

 

[payn]

Confident.

 

[Mind of tempest]

man nothing I like is popular

 

[ezo]

Too bad Barbarian didn't go against Monk, that would have been very interesting!

 

[FitzTheRuke]

Shoot. For some reason it didn't register my vote for Rogue - my all-time favorite class!

 

[ezo]

Unless a flood of "other interests" comes through, we're looking at "classic" martials, too.

 

[CreamCloud0]

I will say, in one of the brackets im genuinely surprised by who’s winning right now

 

[ezo]

I will say, in one of the brackets im genuinely surprised by who’s winning right now

I'm guessing Ranger?

FWIW, it's a pity because I actually like the Ranger in 5E, and don't find (even the concept of) the warlord appealing.

 

[CreamCloud0]

I'm guessing Ranger?

Yes, but i was trying to be vague so nobody could infer anything of worth about the current results

 

[Mind of tempest]

who even is voting ranger it feels like the class most in need of being taken back to before the drawing board, I could fix monk faster