Have you ever played with a 'standard' party?

[Voadam]

I can't remember the last time I played in a four person group. And my PC is multiclassed.

The groups I play in sometimes have discussions about how well we fill the adventuring niches, (tank, trapfinder/scout, spells, healing) and I've even had a friend look around and say "isn't anybody a straight fighter?" but ultimately it's not a big deal, I think I could have fun in an all straight barbarian raiding party with little problem or even an ars magica all wizard one.

 

[NewJeffCT]

Well, we usually have more than 4 players (6 or 7 now, but as many as 10 in the past) but our groups are generally pretty standard fare: fighters, with the occasional ranger or the rare paladin or barbarian; a wizard, a cleric, (more than 1 of each is rare) and at least one rogue. Monks and druids are rare. Most of our PCs tend to be human, with one guy that loves to play elves, and another guy that occasionally will vary off his human fighter theme and play a dwarf fighter. Other than our kickoff 3E campaign where I played a half-orc barbarian, I don’t remember anybody being a half-orc, and certainly nobody has been a gnome. Halflings are used occasionally. We’re all veteran gamers, with some of us having upwards of 25 years experience. I think we had one guy try a prestige class a while back. Multi-classing is rare, and needs a legitimate role-playing reason to multi-class (we had a fighter have a life changing event at around level 12, and he subsequently switched to ranger for the rest of the campaign, which brought him to level 25 or so...similarly, a rogue "saw the light" and attempted to become a paladin)

 

[RigaMortus]

I prefer to use the term "sterotypical" party over standard party. Anyway, to answer your question, NO I have not... But it's mainly because we either have less than 4 people playing, or more than 4 people playing.

 

[Arnwyn]

Have you ever played in a game with a 'standard' party? I have only once, and that was in a tournament.

Yes, of course - all the time (but never with just 4 players - I've had a 6 PC group for years).

But, in any case, there has almost always been a Ftr, Clr, Rog, and Wiz in the group. In fact, with 3e, I'm seeing much more of that than I did in previous editions (when I saw a bunch more rangers and bards).

Edit: If you're including the number of PCs along with the classes, then ignore the above paragraphs - I, as well, have never played with a "standard" group.

 

[Remathilis]

When I Ran RoToEE, I had a "standard party +1'

Human Cleric [Obad-Hai]
Elf Sorcerer
Human Rogue
Dwarf Fighter (later replaced by a Human Fighter)
An Unlucky Halfling Monk/Human Psion/Elf Fighter\Wizard\Bladesinger

However, we usually lack some element of the 4, varying by game (all four have been lacking).

 

[Morpheus]

I've never played in a 'standard' party, but I DMed one that was pretty close. The breakdown: 1 Dwarf Fighter, 1 Elf Cleric, 2 Halfling Rogues (ugggghhh), 1 Elf Wizard and 1 Human Bard. They got to 3rd level and the campaign kind of died out.

 

[SimonMoon5]

Well, once the guy who was playing a paladin dropped out of our group, we had four players in a fairly normal distribution:

1 fighter
1 cleric
1 wizard
1 rogue

But that's not telling the full story. The fighter was an archer who was really a 1st level cleric/ 1st level rogue / 1st level ranger/ ?th level fighter/ ?th level initiate of the order of the bow/ ?th level deepwoods sniper.

The wizard was a 1st level monk/ 5th level wizard/ 10th level incantatrix.

The rogue was splitting levels between rogue and monk (using some special Forgotten Realms rule that let him do this). After this player left, the group got a "lasher" who was part rogue, part bard, part fighter, etc.

And the cleric took a level or two of fighter. And then he cheated and took a level of monk (he wasn't lawful). And he probably cheated by miscalculating his xp in his favor, making a level or two higher than he should've been.

 

[Voadam]

Our last game was close to a different iconic game

We had:

Voadam good sword wielding bearded wizard who wore white robes
Ragnar Dwarven hand to hand fighter/cleric
Gumbar Elven archer who never missed

If you ignored our paladin and arcane trickster we were half way to the Fellowship of the Ring.

 

[Desdichado]

Never done it. Also, not interested in doing so unless it just happens to happen.

 

[e3_Jeb]

The last game I played in our group was a beacon of diversity... We had a Sorcerer, a Rogue, a Barbarian, a Cleric, and a Psion... The only problem was that none of our characters fufilled their assumed rolls... I, the sorc, wielded a Flamberge and could be found no where else but in the heat of combat, the barbarian was a spellfire wielder, the rogue wasn't around (He seriously just did other stuff), the cleric would cast sanctuarary and just draw attention to himself, and the 20 Con Psion was bleeding on the floor all the time... *sigh* That was a fun group... It's unfortunate that that campaign crumbled under it's own richness...