What Character Class Do You Usually Play?

[drothgery]

In 2e, I was on a wizard run when my first gaming group finished college and scattered to the four corners of the US; at least, both of my active characters were wizards.

In 3.x, I've played a cleric, a ranger/rogue that was mostly ranger, a psion, and I'll be running a CAdv scout next. I really don't like to play two similar characters in a row anymore, so the scout is likely to be followed by a wizard; I never thought I'd be in a regular D&D game for three years without playing one.

 

[D+1]

Well, just because I DM - a lot - doesn't mean I don't ever PLAY or never did. Fighter is probably the most frequent class I've played. Rogue may be next.

What I haven't EVER played is an Artificer, Favored Soul, Hexblade, Ninja, Psion, Psychic Warrior (the last two largely because they have yet to make an appearance in any 3E games I've been involved in), Rouge, Shugenja, Sorceror (have yet to see one taken as a PC in any 3E game I've been in), Soulknife, Spellthief, Spirit Shaman (though I do have a great concept for one on the back burner), Swashbuckler (though many of my PC's have a very swashbuckling approach), Warlock, Warmage, Wilder, Wu Jen, and an Other is a class I guess I haven't seen yet. What sourcebook is that from?

I notice a lot of those are not classes but PRESTIGE CLASSES. Interesting that you should have decided to mix the two, almost as if you don't draw a distinction...

 

[taliesin15]

Amazing that there's so many votes for what I play (Cleric) and hardly for Druid...

I must say I find most of these character classes kind of dumb and extraneous

Anyhow, if I was playing 3rd edition now, it would almost definitely be a Bard

 

[Samuel Leming]

Howdy Duane, long time, no see.

I notice a lot of those are not classes but PRESTIGE CLASSES. Interesting that you should have decided to mix the two, almost as if you don't draw a distinction...

With the Expanded Psionics Handbook and the Complete series in 3.5E, they're all classed now.

Amazing that there's so many votes for what I play (Cleric) and hardly for Druid...

I'm surprised by this too.

I must say I find most of these character classes kind of dumb and extraneous

And taliesin15 gets the prize!

Sam

 

[The Shaman]

I don't have a "usual" class. I've played a little of everything. Sometimes I come up with a character concept I'd like to try, other times it's driven by the setting, still others by what the rest of the players are running.

 

[Goblyn]

I voted Psychic warrior, though I've more often played clerics; I prefer the PsyWar, 3.0 or 3.5.

 

[Boojum]

Let's see, I've DMed more than anything else, but have still managed to play quite a few characters since the release of 3.XE. I consciously try to play characters that are dramatically different from each other, and tend to multiclass a fair amount to get the concept I'm going for, so I think there have only been two single class characters, a bard and a psion (telepath), though I also have a 1st level cleric that will stay single-classed for his whole career.

Other than that, I've had:
-An unholy combination of classes and PrCs (14th level character, no more than 3 in any one class) all designed to produce a divinely sponsored swashbuckler of the god of music.
-An atypical ranger 8 with 1 level each so far of fighter and cavalier, no archery or TWF, but focused on mounted combat riding his dire bat animal companion and tracking down heretics, disbelievers, and other enemies of the church of Pholtus.
-A cleric with 1 level of ranger-not my ideal construction, but he was a specialty priest of the god of sailors in 2e, and needed the ranger level to get the skills for that archetype.
-A monk/barbarian/cleric focused on grappling.
-A wizard/rogue (soon to be an arcane trickster).
-A fighter/wizard.
-An insane druid who follows the god of volcanoes and prophesies the end of the world in a fiery apocalypse.

I think the only core classes I haven't played are a paladin (one of the other people I play with often plays them, so I try to do something different, and a sorcerer (strikes me as too restrictive to be appealing to play compared to wizard, although I use them fairly often when DMing for the simplified prep.)

 

[Corsair]

I voted Sorcerer, but really I play just about anything. However I tend to have a few rules:

Spellcasters good! (except druid, which I've never had a chance to play, despite how leet they are supposed to be... wierd.)
Spontaneous > Divine > Book Lernin'. (Psionics is about equal to divine in my mind. Spontaneous includes sorcs, warmages, and bards)

Skills good! (Ranger, bard, rogue, scout! I also often play human just for that extra skill point. Most of my characters, even my non-casters, tend to have 12+ int)

Fighter bad! - Well, maybe not bad, but I've never felt the desire to play a straight fighter. Fighter levels are a means to an end (getting to a fighter PrC which better fits the character concept). I much prefer rangers, barbarians (ranger/barbarian multiclasses are a favorite of mine, for skill point reasons) and paladins.

Only classes I never play: Druid (never have the opportunity), monk

 

[Ogre Mage]

Cleric, cleric, cleric. No one else will play them.

 

[D+1]

Howdy Duane, long time, no see.

Suddenly, I get the ebarrassing feeling I should remember your name from somewhere...

With the Expanded Psionics Handbook and the Complete series in 3.5E, they're all classed now.

Ah, but the Complete series is not Core Rules.