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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Atlatl Jones" data-source="post: 4962951" data-attributes="member: 54620">BECMI:  Elf.  I've always loved fighter/magic users as an archetype, and when I started playing I thought elves were the coolest guys in the world.  I'm embarrassed to say that my first ever character was named Elrond Half-elven.  <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/blush.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":blush:" title="Blush    :blush:" data-shortname=":blush:" />1e:  Paladin.  Kick-ass holy warriors with awesome powers.  Especially when Unearthed Arcana came out.  My other favorite 1e class was the Psionicist from Dragon magazine (I was a big Deryni buff).2e:  Fighter/Wizards or Specialty Priests.3e:  Wizards.  3.5E:  Psions.  I loved druids, and played several of them, but I think my favorite class was the Psion.  The psionic rules offered a flexibility that I loved, allowing me to come up with creative solutions to problems.Arcana Unearthed/Evolved:  Magister, for the same reasons why I loved the 3.5 Psion.4e:  Fighter or Bard, probably.  I don't really have a favorite class in 4e.  But I like the fighter a lot, because it's the first purely mundane fighter that's been interesting to play, for me.  I also really like the bard, because it's quite versatile, and has lots of powers that mess with opponents in interesting ways beyond just damaging them.Overall, I like flexible, versatile characters.  I don't like playing ultra-specialists, I like playing characters who are veritable swiss-army knives, able to do all sorts of things.  I especially like being able to try creative, non-obvious solutions to difficult problems.  That's the main reason why I liked playing spellcasters prior to 4e, though I also find supernatural power fun to play.</blockquote>

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