Do you miss old D&D class names?

[snarfoogle]

I prefer the new class names over the old ones.

Wizard is better than Magic User because Magic User sounds too generic. Wizard feels like fantasy.

Rogue is better than thief for the opposite reason. While thief is a more focused name, it has connotations and limits creativity.

 

[Psychic Warrior]

It's Thief not Rogue.

I think you meant Theif not Rouge


I don't miss the old class names or level titles. The new class names are fine (and a little more acurrate) while the level titles were never used in any game I ever played or DMed.

That being said I could see some uses for them as titles of important people within a guild (especially the monk, druid and assassin ones).

 

[Gez]

I don't miss them, what with having started D&D in 1999. (Before 3e, let's just say that there were plenty of other, sounder RPGs out there.)

But I think it would be cool to play a female fighting-man. Or a thief which styles himself a magic-user, because he's the one with the Use Magic (Device) skill on his class list.

Anyway, there's a way in which these names are better than the actual ones. As Monte Cook said about AU, class names that sounds too close to something people would naturally use may cause confusion. Take Warrior, for example. If you say some character is a warrior, do you imply that character's background as a man who fought in wars, or do you mean he's of the warrior NPC class?

Giving lame names to the class ensure that no-one would use them outside of game-jargon.

 

[cybertalus]

The more I think about it, "magic user" sounds like someone who should be in rehab. "Sure, I can quit casting spells anytime I want to. I just don't want to."