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<blockquote data-quote="Taureth" data-source="post: 4639637" data-attributes="member: 81700">I have always liked clerics.&nbsp; Funny, because I'm not conventionally religious in real life.&nbsp;&nbsp; So, a bit of it is playing someone who is; it's a different perspective.&nbsp; Also, I consider a high wisdom, if anything, even more challenging to role play well than a high intelligence score.&nbsp;&nbsp; Beyond that, I love their spell list -- it is more subtle than that of the arcanists and it often makes you think a bit more in its application.&nbsp;&nbsp; And, turning undead -- phew, I hate undead! --&nbsp; mighty useful ability to have.&nbsp;&nbsp; Also, the combination of decent combat skills, hit dice and armor with spells is very nice at lower levels.&nbsp;&nbsp; I especially like clerics who are neutral with regard to good and evil;&nbsp;&nbsp; it's easy to imagine and play the saintly patriarch or the evil high priestess.&nbsp; Clerics who tread the gray areas between are harder to stereotype and more interesting for me to play, generally.&nbsp; Now I have to say arcanists get a very close second. (I like spell casters, generally)&nbsp; Most of my favorite characters from fiction have been magi of some variety.&nbsp;&nbsp; On some days, they -are- my favorite class.&nbsp; The occult is just mysterious, stirring and flat out cool!&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; In a way, I identify with it, too.&nbsp; I'm a knowledge seeker in real life with some fairly esoteric interests, so the role comes more naturally for me than somebody who just wants to butcher others with a weapon and then go have an ale.&nbsp;&nbsp; Prior to 3.x, I really liked mutli-class characters a lot. I tend to prefer diversifying my interests rather than specializing in real life, and so too in game:&nbsp; Cleric/mages, cleric/fighters, cleric/thieves (Erevan Ilesere, anyone?), fighter/mages and fighter/thieves in particular.&nbsp; The latter combination I really liked at times when I wanted to get away from playing spell casters.&nbsp;&nbsp; I've never cared for the fighter or thief/rogue classes as standalones very much, but I do like them a lot in combination with others.&nbsp; &nbsp; Or rather did, before 3E stole my joy in multi-classing!&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown&nbsp; &nbsp; :("&nbsp; data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Taureth, post: 4639637, member: 81700"] I have always liked clerics. Funny, because I'm not conventionally religious in real life. So, a bit of it is playing someone who is; it's a different perspective. Also, I consider a high wisdom, if anything, even more challenging to role play well than a high intelligence score. Beyond that, I love their spell list -- it is more subtle than that of the arcanists and it often makes you think a bit more in its application. And, turning undead -- phew, I hate undead! -- mighty useful ability to have. Also, the combination of decent combat skills, hit dice and armor with spells is very nice at lower levels. I especially like clerics who are neutral with regard to good and evil; it's easy to imagine and play the saintly patriarch or the evil high priestess. Clerics who tread the gray areas between are harder to stereotype and more interesting for me to play, generally. Now I have to say arcanists get a very close second. (I like spell casters, generally) Most of my favorite characters from fiction have been magi of some variety. On some days, they -are- my favorite class. The occult is just mysterious, stirring and flat out cool! In a way, I identify with it, too. I'm a knowledge seeker in real life with some fairly esoteric interests, so the role comes more naturally for me than somebody who just wants to butcher others with a weapon and then go have an ale. Prior to 3.x, I really liked mutli-class characters a lot. I tend to prefer diversifying my interests rather than specializing in real life, and so too in game: Cleric/mages, cleric/fighters, cleric/thieves (Erevan Ilesere, anyone?), fighter/mages and fighter/thieves in particular. The latter combination I really liked at times when I wanted to get away from playing spell casters. I've never cared for the fighter or thief/rogue classes as standalones very much, but I do like them a lot in combination with others. Or rather did, before 3E stole my joy in multi-classing! :( [/QUOTE]

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