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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack7" data-source="post: 4639308" data-attributes="member: 54707">This thread was kind of forked, I guess you might say, from Bullgrit's thread on <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/general-rpg-discussion/249204-highest-level-youve-played.html" target="_blank">http://www.enworld.org/forum/general-rpg-discussion/249204-highest-level-youve-played.html</a>. He gave me the idea.Anyways, this thread is about your favorite character types to play, and why? I did a somewhat similar thread called <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/general-rpg-discussion/248342-your-real-self-not.html" target="_blank">http://www.enworld.org/forum/general-rpg-discussion/248342-your-real-self-not.html</a> But it dealt more with the player side of character identity. Just in a general sense.This thread is about what is, or are, your favorite character(s) to play, and why?And what kinds of characters do you most identify with in-game.My favorite D&D character has changed over time. I used to like playing Wizards and Thieves. Wizards cause I just liked the idea of magic and of doing things others couldn't. Thieves because they were so good at sneaking about and infiltration. I like sneaking about and I like infiltrating. Occasionally I'd really like playing a Cleric but over time I saw that the religion to character/player aspect in D&D was terribly weak and that made clerics very inflexible, stagnant, stale, and uninteresting to me.But now I like Rangers. Not specifically linked to any particular edition, I just like Rangers. I tend to make Rangers into lawmen and detectives, similar to my own background in a sense, and I often use them as manhunters, spies, infiltrators, frontier scouts, and trackers. I also use them heavily for reconnaissance and ambush. They are excellent at ambush. And I really like ambushing bad guys. Outfoxing them. I also really like the frontiersman aspect of the Ranger. I've always liked the outdoors and the frontier.In other games I generally like to play similar types of characters. Detectives, marshals, Intel agents, guys who work alone or independently, guys in the field. The older I get the more I like playing out-front guys, guys doing the infiltrating, sneaking about, scouting, probing, spying, information gathering, mainly independent actors. I guess that's because being older I don't get to do that kind of thing anymore, or at least not nearly as much as I'd like. I tend to gravitate towards other characters like that too, in-game. That is I often find myself teaming up with other rangers, or detectives, or scouts, or whatnot.Occasionally I think playing a Bard would be really interesting, depending on how the DM let the guy be played and what he was capable of actually doing, but mainly, as far as D&D goes, it's the Ranger.What's yours? And why?</blockquote>

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