Jacob Marley
Adventurer
....what do you guys think on that????
Well, I voted wizard as my favorite class but in practice I only play wizards maybe 15-20% of the time; other classes account for 80-85% of my gaming. In fact, I have more fighters in my character stable than I do wizards. It would be difficult for someone looking at my character sheets or observing me play to notice what my class preference is.
I think that this has a lot to do with fulfilling roles in the party. When you ask the average gamer what are the different roles in a D&D campaign you often get an answer along the lines of Cleric, Fighter, Rogue, Wizard (or Healer, Tank, Skill-Monkey, Wizard). At the time of this post there were 86 votes, if we combine the various classes into these more general roles we get 14 Clerics (Cleric, Druid), 26 Fighters (Barbarian, Fighter, Monk*, Paladin, Ranger), 17 Rogues (Bard, Rogue), and 29 Wizards (Sorcerer, Wizard). These numbers are a lot closer to the traditional adventuring party, though they are skewed in favor of the wizard. And certainly much closer to the average campaigns I have seen.
* The monk is sort of a PITA to classify as it sort of wants to be both a skill-monkey and a tank and does neither all that well.