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Message: <blockquote data-quote="L0rd_Dark0n" data-source="post: 801868" data-attributes="member: 10659"><p>Ok, I just want to get an idea of how all you gamers and DM's out there feel about the Rogue class.  To me, they're my absolute favorite class to play.  They know how to do all kinds of things, and they do them well and with style.  Plus, I can't think of any other class that has in it the potential for character diversification (other than the Fighter).  You can have the classic thief character, a good hearted professional adventurer, a diplomat, the list goes on and on.  They can be of any alignment, and no two are alike...aside from the sneak attack ability and other class abilities.  <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" />  Now, in the area of the nation where I game, for some reason, other players and DM's detest Rogues.  I mean they really don't like them.  ANY kind of Rogue.  They complain that the Rogue class is way too powerful, and that they hope that 3.5 strips away their class abilities, and basically just leave them like a crippled bard with no spell abilities.  ie, 6 skill points where bards should get 8 AND spells, no dex to AC bonuses, and so on and so forth.  They just go on and on about it.  But here's the thing, they don't like the class, so they don't really play one.  Their experience with the Rogue class is just a couple levels of mulitclassing into the Rogue class.  Doesn't matter how many times I or someone else playing a Rogue saves their butts, they just can't get over it, or give the Rogue credit and their characters go out of their way to make life miserable for Rogues in the group.  They NEVER trust them, EVEN if they're Lawful Good!  This isn't isolated to just a few people either.  It's been the case with every group that I've played in.  And these people from different groups don't know each other.  Is this a common feeling about the Rogue class?  These gamers here, however, LOVE the Rogue variants that are in the Star Wars d20 game such as the Scoundrel, and the Wheel of Time's Wanderer.  This baffles me.  What do you, the gamers out there on the net think?</p></blockquote><p></p>

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