Favorite Casting?

[Poster Bard]

I have a friend (it's always "a friend", isn't it?), who finds it most satisfying to play a gruff, dwarven warrior type. It's what he likes and when he tries to play something else, or when he is talked into trying something different, he doesn't have as good a time. Often in those cases, he finds himself slipping into his gruff, dwarven warrior character-mode, no matter what he plays. Nothing wrong with that. It's just his thing. What type of character do you find yourself playing most often?

 

[Crothian]

human bard, I like the skills and the support nature of the class. I like being able to do a little bit of everythinjg. THough I will say not all DMs do the bard justice and it can be tough to play one with a DM that doesn't get it.

 

[Storyteller01]

Any of the support characters. I generally play what the group is missing.

 

[HeapThaumaturgist]

I'm wildly varied in my characters and their characterization ... I try to make them all enjoyable for everybody, though.

Probably mostly that they're all wise-acres ... as am I, of course, so I guess that's how my personality always flows into my characters.

One of my favorites was a Dwarven Bard ... I took Perform (Storytelling) and tried to "get into it" by telling old anecdotal tales appropriate to the moment. "Ahhhh, so there I was, fifteen Lizardfolk with murder in their glassy eyes, and me with naught but me skivvies and a carp named Mervyn to protect me ..." Everybody would ask: "Is this ... a particularly INSPIRING tale?" because I just started blathering on whether I was activating an ability or not. Great fun, but hard to come up with an appropriate story for every eventuality.

Currently the GM we're playing with has a very interesting campaign backstory involving an evil empire and the enslavement of mankind. He opened up alot of non-standard races, with Drow playing a reasonably important part in the Empire. The intent was that everybody would play a "Freedom Fighter" of some sort ... good Elves, underground humans, gnomes, halflings, etc. Fighting for the downfall of the Empire and all that rot.

So I decided to play a Drow, to fit in with the campaign. But not a goody Dribble Do'Udon Drow, an evil-to-the-core rat bastard of the highest order. It's been a blast. I was very very careful to tie the character into the storyline, good reasons to be part of an underground movement that didn't conflict with the Movement or with his being Lawful Evil. So in all of my email correspondence I'm careful to call all the other characters "Cattle" "Slave-races" "Pale-Ears" and I consistently call the gnome a halfling because "all you people look alike". SO much fun. None of the other characters particularly LIKE him, but they respect his keen intellect and massive firepower too much to do anything about it. That and the Neutral human barbarian agreed early on to become his hireling, and nobody messes with "Smashdor". (The character was named Alric, but the druid was named Aelric, so one of them needed a nickname to keep things straight.)

But, through it all, wise-cracking comments are the norm. Can't help m'self, I guess.

EDIT: Thinking about it further, I really love SUPPORT characters, as well. My caster is a support caster ... whipping out wands of Ray of Enfeeblement, Pyrotechnics, Enlarge Person, etc more than FIREBALL or Magic Missile. My Bard was a support character. My Goblin Rogue was purposefully designed to be pretty much useless to account for another character being overpowered. If I want to be a twinked-out broken character, I LOVE the Marshall class. Marshal/Cleric is where its at. I love Dwarves, and my dwarven fighters are usually based around huge untouchable ACs or tactical battlefield control. So ... wise-acres who support the party.

--fje

 

[Daermon]

I'm the same as Storyteller. I'm always the last to make a character (and usually the last to hear of a new game) so I choose to be whatever is needed to round out the party.

95% of the time, I'm a fighter of some type.

 

[Storyteller01]

I'm the same as Storyteller. I'm always the last to make a character (and usually the last to hear of a new game) so I choose to be whatever is needed to round out the party.

95% of the time, I'm a fighter of some type.

Funny. I'm usually the bard or cleric...

 

[Andre]

Almost always a spellcaster. I know the system better than some of the other players, so I tend to take the more complicated character. I also tend to play clerics, as most players don't want to.

The more I think about it, I'm really in the mood to play a brick in Champions and just go knock over a few walls...

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

Kel Dor Jedi Guardian and Human Tech Specialist(or a mix of the two) are pretty common for me...oh wait!

When it comes to D&D, I'll play nearly anything. Lately, Druids have been my thing, though lightly armored Fighter/Rogues are a good old favorite of mine.

 

[MacMathan]

Lets see in the past few years:

A nordic barb/cleric of thor is a historically oriented campaign, mainly enhancement magic and a big two handed hammer. Went with his heart and paid his honor debts with his life.

A dwarven fire mage. Irrascible and power hungry but never singed the party too much. Really good at what he did.

Currently: A human fighter, aspiring to become a knight. Lawful Neutral honor and duty sort. (yes I have been reading too much of Martin's AGoT)

I almost never seem to get to play the rogue type character.

 

[S'mon]

I play tough human Fighters, male or female. One of my players plays elven wizards - he tried dwarves, but he's really an elf. Another plays arrogant Norsemen, he's Norwegian and it's not a big stretch.