Poll: Favored class & why?

[the Jester]

Hard to choose, but I voted 'cleric' for the roleplaying opportunities.

 

[Dark Mistress]

Rogues by a narrow margin is my fav. I like sneaky/social characters. Arcane casters come in a close second.

 

[LostSoul]

My favourite class isn't an option; it's "Elf". (Or Fighter/Magic-User, if you want to look at it that way.)

Why? Because being able to cast spells and cut things up with your sword is pretty sweet.

 

[steeldragons]

Wizard, though personally I prefer the term Mage...or even better, "Magic-User"

Cast and forget, my friend. None o' this hoighty toity "I'll cast whateverI want however many times I can" nonsense. Pick your spells and use 'em wisely!

Why? Well, I've always been a sucker for wizards and those using magic in myth and folklore...and comics and cartoons...pretty much everywhere, actually So when I first encountered D&D in 19-mumblemumble and saw there was a game where sorcery was REAL?!? ...and a character I could be who HAD MAGIC they could actually use?! I was sold.

Then, as I became a more *hehhem* refined player, I really liked them because they were so weak in the beginning...Playing/getting them to a decent level (I'd say around 5th level was where you start to feel capable of "holding your own" for the day) was a challenge!

The managing of your resources (spells). The seeking out/hunting down MORE spells to expand your repertoire.

You really had/have to play smart to survive for a while...and work with others (like fighters and thieves and clerics) to get the job done....and once you're levels are climbing, let's face it, controlling the forces of the cosmos and bending reality to your will is just cool.

So that all appeals (most) to my more...creative, visual and mental nature.

--SD

 

[Traveon Wyvernspur]

Wizard, though personally I prefer the term Mage...or even better, "Magic-User"

Cast and forget, my friend. None o' this hoighty toity "I'll cast whateverI want however many times I can" nonsense. Pick your spells and use 'em wisely!

Why? Well, I've always been a sucker for wizards and those using magic in myth and folklore...and comics and cartoons...pretty much everywhere, actually So when I first encountered D&D in 19-mumblemumble and saw there was a game where sorcery was REAL?!? ...and a character I could be who HAD MAGIC they could actually use?! I was sold.

Then, as I became a more *hehhem* refined player, I really liked them because they were so weak in the beginning...Playing/getting them to a decent level (I'd say around 5th level was where you start to feel capable of "holding your own" for the day) was a challenge!

The managing of your resources (spells). The seeking out/hunting down MORE spells to expand your repertoire.

You really had/have to play smart to survive for a while...and work with others (like fighters and thieves and clerics) to get the job done....and once you're levels are climbing, let's face it, controlling the forces of the cosmos and bending reality to your will is just cool.

So that all appeals (most) to my more...creative, visual and mental nature.

--SD

Nicely stated, thanks for the explanation.

 

[Traveon Wyvernspur]

My favourite class isn't an option; it's "Elf". (Or Fighter/Magic-User, if you want to look at it that way.)

Why? Because being able to cast spells and cut things up with your sword is pretty sweet.

Sounds like you enjoy being a hybrid or multi-class character in most of your games. I thought I had given the option in the poll to choose up to two options, but maybe I didn't. That would have satisfied your Arcane Blade-wielder.

 

[Greg K]

Rogue:
I like the standard rogue, the martial rogue, the wilderness rogue. Plus, you listed the ranger in that category.

I also like the Barbarian hunter variant from Unearthed Arcana with the favored environment environment variant.

 

[Ahnehnois]

I should have put [psion] as an example under the Mage class, to me it's a caster (if lumped together) class. For the purposes of the poll I didn't want to put down 30-40 different options for classes.

That's my point. To me, a mage isn't a psion. In D&D, you have mages, taking from this almost scientific energy source that just exists in the universe, you have divine casters drawing from belief in a deity or force of nature, and then you have psions.

Magic (in the D&D sense) is an external force, and then you have the psychic types whose power originates within. That archetype isn't part of the "core four" of D&D (so it's fine that it was left out). I do, however, like that archetype in principle, and it's fundamental to my campaign world. If I'm playing, not DMing, I try to play everything but default to rogue.

 

[Traveon Wyvernspur]

I agree they aren't the same class it was a generalization to me to keep things more simple, in hindsight I should have put down 2 more options 1) hybrid class and 2) other

 

[Mournblade94]

I love the RANGER! Always have. WHen I transitioned from Red box to AD&D I thought the Paladin was a fighter with cleric abilities, and the Ranger was a fighter with wizard. But really that nature archetype just grabbed me. I remember reading the AD&D PHB and reading the Ranger introduction. It was one of those moments where one thinks they have found the 'coolest thing ever.'

Slightly after that I watched the Original Lord of the Rings cartoon (not the rankin bass, the one that ended abruptly at the bridge of Kazud doom).

STRIDER was the coolest character ever.

I was hooked on ranger. Thsi is before they fought with two weapons!

It is seriously one of the reasons I liked Drizzt so much, that last book SOJOURN when the guy said he had the heart of a ranger... total adrenaline rush.