D&D 5E 5e Fighter, Do You Enjoy Playiing It?

[ExploderWizard]

Really enjoying a finesse based elf fighter. Really good with a bow and two weapon fighting. No complaints.

 

[Grimstaff]

I have a blast with my two-weapon fighter, Kazak the Slayer, on the rare opportunities I get to play him (I usually DM). I'd like to try a finesse fighter (battlemaster?) some time in the future as well.

 

[FormerlyHemlock]

Yes. There are other archtypes I enjoy as well, and when I roll up an entire party for whatever reason (e.g. solo play) I don't always manage to squeeze a fighter in there with the wizard, bardlock, pallysorc, and monk... but I have a fighter PC on standby and if I could add a fifth it would either be him or maybe the druid. (The druid might be mechanically more versatile but the party already has a lot of versatility and the fighter's striking power would be a great boon. Plus, this particular fighter's personality is more interesting than the druid's.)

Edit: also, for some reason, most of the actual solo adventures I've run for myself (one low-level PC on his own) have been fighters. I don't know what that says except that I obviously enjoy fighters.

 

[Inchoroi]

Fighters in 5e are awesome. I'm playing on in AL, as is my wife in our online game (dueling finesse battlemaster and ranged battlemaster, respectively). We've loved them. I actually find that, if you're using feats, the fighter gets a lot of utility and customization from the massive number of ASIs you get, so you can really come up with a fun character using that aspect of Fighter; and I think that's working as intended, too, as everyone else gets fluffy stuff.

Of course, that means that the game should really be played with feats, which of course it should be. Without feats, I think it'd be boring-ish...

 

[Shiroiken]

I have not (yet) played a fighter, because I've only played in 2 games since the release of 5E. Both were carryovers, so I was not building "new" characters, but recreating existing characters. I already have an idea for a Fighter/Eldritch Knight (or as I call it, a Bladesinger) that I'm thinking about doing for the next game I play in.

To be fair, I normally prefer spell casters, so I'm not the target of the poll. Even still, I'm pretty excited about playing one!

 

[Psikerlord#]

Well looking at the poll and these posts, seems to me Fighters are good fun in 5e.

 

[the Jester]

With all the same discussions about the fighter coming up every month...

It's pretty much a few people lodging the same complaints over and over again. They create a lot of noise for a small group.

IMHO the fighter is just fine.

 

[EzekielRaiden]

It's pretty much a few people lodging the same complaints over and over again. They create a lot of noise for a small group.

IMHO the fighter is just fine.

At the same time, there are multiple people in this very thread who openly admit to having not played the Fighter, but who have formed an opinion about it nonetheless. Doesn't strike me as a great poll--even if you ignore the many issues of a forum-based volunteer sample etc.--when people are voicing opinions untested. I didn't vote because (a) I don't play Fighters much anyway, and (b) I have no direct Fighter experience so it would be wrong to say I find them either fun or unfun in practice.

Edit:
Having reviewed the voter list, I can see that no one who posted about having indirect experience has voted for or against. So consider that objection amended, as there is no guarantee that the (many) silent voters followed the "don't vote if you don't like fighters generally" instruction. (I know, just for my own self, that I often vote before reading the OP, in part to avoid coloring my response.)

 

[FormerlyHemlock]

At the same time, there are multiple people in this very thread who openly admit to having not played the Fighter, but who have formed an opinion about it nonetheless.

Which "multiple people" are you talking about? The closest I see to your point of view is people who say things like "I didn't vote because I haven't played one, but the guy playing one seems to be having fun." Every single poster in this thread who has played a fighter has said they liked it, which means the polls results are matching up well with the verbalized anecdotes.

Your skepticism seems tendentious.

 

[EzekielRaiden]

Which "multiple people" are you talking about? The closest I see to your point of view is people who say things like "I didn't vote because I haven't played one, but the guy playing one seems to be having fun." Every single poster in this thread who has played a fighter has said they liked it, which means the polls results are matching up well with the verbalized anecdotes.

Your skepticism seems tendentious.

I posted before thoroughly reviewing the voters because I'm on my phone, which makes page juggling and especially posting a tedious process. I edited the post to reflect a more accurate phrasing if the skeptical stance. As for "tendentious," call it what you like. I will always be very skeptical of the significance of a forum poll, regardless of what the general result is, because it falls prey to most of the worst difficulties such things possibly can: volunteer sample, unkown representativeness of population, ability to see others' responses before making one, ability to change responses after submitting them, relatively small sample size, and even exposing the data before it's all collected. As far as statistics are concerned, this and basically every other ENWorld poll* are numbers with little substance.

*Only singling out ENW here because some features, like changing your vote after you make it, are things I've not seen elsewhere. Most of the list applies to nearly every forum poll, ever.