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<blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 6665338" data-attributes="member: 1465"><p>If you think you "should" be a melee character because nobody else is, then you are a fool. At least some of the other players choose their PC freely without knowing what class the others were going to be, so why should <em>you</em> get the shaft and be morally forced into a limited choice? The game works fine without all traditional roles covered, the party will adjust itself to whatever composition, so just make up a PC you want to play instead of worried that it's up to you to do community service for the rest of the group.</p><p></p><p>I won't believe that with 12 classes and 30+ subclasses there isn't a character archetype that doesn't attract you into play <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Either choose one because of the narrative or because some mechanics makes you feel you'll have fun playing it that way.</p><p></p><p>It also always helps a lot to recall some cool character from a movie or book you have recently watched/read, and try to base your PC around that. What was the last fantasy/sci-fi/action movies you've seen? Wasn't there some cool character? How could you transpose that character into the fantasy medieval-ish style of D&D?</p><p></p><p>And if you really really have no clue (but normally that happens when you have <em>too many</em> cool ideas to try) there is always the good old gamer's friend: the <strong>die</strong>. Roll a random character <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> Roll class, race and background at least... or roll everything if you dare!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Li Shenron, post: 6665338, member: 1465"] If you think you "should" be a melee character because nobody else is, then you are a fool. At least some of the other players choose their PC freely without knowing what class the others were going to be, so why should [I]you[/I] get the shaft and be morally forced into a limited choice? The game works fine without all traditional roles covered, the party will adjust itself to whatever composition, so just make up a PC you want to play instead of worried that it's up to you to do community service for the rest of the group. I won't believe that with 12 classes and 30+ subclasses there isn't a character archetype that doesn't attract you into play :) Either choose one because of the narrative or because some mechanics makes you feel you'll have fun playing it that way. It also always helps a lot to recall some cool character from a movie or book you have recently watched/read, and try to base your PC around that. What was the last fantasy/sci-fi/action movies you've seen? Wasn't there some cool character? How could you transpose that character into the fantasy medieval-ish style of D&D? And if you really really have no clue (but normally that happens when you have [I]too many[/I] cool ideas to try) there is always the good old gamer's friend: the [B]die[/B]. Roll a random character :D Roll class, race and background at least... or roll everything if you dare! [/QUOTE]
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