D&D 3E/3.5 Vote for your favorite core Class!!! (3.5)

[Scott DeWar]

so, who was the first to post pali? Rhun?

 

[Jimlock]

so, who was the first to post pali? Rhun?

Nope wasn't him... the hero remains unknown

 

[Rhun]

so, who was the first to post pali? Rhun?

Certainly not me. I'd play a cleric every time over a base-class paladin.

 

[Jimlock]

100 votes!!!!

don't know why i find this exciting....

*shrug*

 

[Jimlock]

1/3 picks an arcane spellcaster...
1/3 pickes a warrior-like class

...the rest is shared by divine spellcasters and rogues (+bards)...

 

[Scott DeWar]

Ya know, I forgot which one I voted for- a fighter I think.

 

[Jimlock]

Ya know, I forgot which one I voted for- a fighter I think.

yeah well you probably didn't vote for paladin...
while everything else is picking up... the paladin stays at 2...

i might be projecting here... but why do i get the idea that one of the reasons behind the few votes for the paladin is..... bad DMing...?

i mean i have experienced a few cases where a player picked the paladin and the DM starting going "well you can't do that because your beliefs are this and that"....no you can't do that because you fill gilt"..."no i can't allow this because your sense of honor and justice pushes you to do this".... and i guess... that at some point... players are fed up of being told what they can or cannot do...
Not that it's simply the DMs' fault... a lot of players i've seen have played him bad as well...but........

I have no objection to the fact that a Paladin abides to a certain code... but is he really the robot we think of him...? is he really so two-dimensional? without room for error..feelings..revenge even???


The paladin is far from being my favorite class... still i have experienced a couple of cases where he was marvelously Rplayed... where the player managed to express this inner turmoil...between what he's supposed to do... and what he instinct tells him...

Is it really an alignment issue? a power issue? a DM issue?...

 

[Theo R Cwithin]

Hmm, I don't see that you can really claim paladin is considered an unenjoyable or disliked class to play-- much less a reason for that-- based solely on the info in this poll. Paladin isn't everyone's favorite class, but it does doesn't follow that people don't enjoying playing it or that it often gets shafted by poor DMing.

Paladin could quite possibly be everyone's second favorite class, and this poll would never reveal that (very strange) fact.

 

[Jimlock]

Hmm, I don't see that you can really claim paladin is considered an unenjoyable or disliked class to play-- much less a reason for that-- based solely on the info in this poll. Paladin isn't everyone's favorite class, but it does doesn't follow that people don't enjoying playing it or that it often gets shafted by poor DMing.

Paladin could quite possibly be everyone's second favorite class, and this poll would never reveal that (very strange) fact.

Well it's not an assumption based solely on the poll's info. I've heard quite a few players saying "Naaah i'm not playing one again... too many restrictions!"

...and i was wondering how these restrictions are played out in various game groups...

A class can get a bad name for either not being effective (in terms of mechanical gameplay) or because people simply don't appreciate the "flavor" of the class..

It somehow seems to me that the paladin gets a third reason for not being likable (the morality restrictions)...

perhaps i'm wrong

 

[Theo R Cwithin]

Ah, I see what you're getting at then. I can certainly see your point that the restrictions might make it difficult for some people to play, and the RP "mushiness" of those restrictions might make it difficult to adjudicate.

I dont know. Though I can say, if nothing else, that honestly I've seen very few paladins in play... so my personal experience actually jibes with the notion that they're unpopular! Still no real guess why, though.