What Character Class Do You Usually Play?

[Pinotage]

It's interesting to see that apart from those who DM, the majority of people play the four 'core' classes - Fighter, Rogue, Cleric and Wizard.

Pinotage

 

[Scarbonac]

My preferences fall pretty much in this order:

Fighter, Ranger, Rogue, Wizard, Cleric and a distant Everything Else.

 

[Plane Sailing]

Tricky.

So far I've played a paladin/sorcerer, a ranger/monk, a sorcerer, a monk/psywar and a ranger (cohort)

so that looks like 1 paladin vote, 2 sorcerer votes, 2 ranger votes, 2 monk votes and 1 psywar vote.

If I include class levels: paladin2/sorc4, ranger6/monk1, sorcerer 12, monk4/psywar 2 and ranger 10 comes out as:

so that looks like 2 paladin votes, 16 sorcerer votes, 16 ranger votes, 5 monk votes and 2 psywar votes

So I'll say a tie between sorcerer and ranger, and since some of the ranger levels are in a cohort, my final decision lies with Sorcerer..

 

[Plane Sailing]

I did a big survey on ENworld in May 2002 which had the following results (total number of class levels taken)

Fighter		1038	16.6%
Rogue		840	13.5%
Cleric		831	13.3%
Wizard		815	13.1%
Sorcerer	529	8.5%
Ranger		437	7.0%
Monk		403	6.5%
Paladin		374	6.0%
Barbarian	303	4.9%
Bard		275	4.4%
Druid		208	3.3%
Psion		138	2.2%
Psychic War	50	0.8%

 

[Li Shenron]

My favourite characters are arcane spellcaster, and nowadays I think the ones I played most (maybe not in number of characters, but in number of levels) are Sorcerers.

I started playing Wizards because I wanted top versatility, but in later campaigns the Sorcerers have outnumbered them

 

[DragonLancer]

I find that when I do play, my class of choice is usually Rogue. I like to have a character that can fight fairly well, but also has a good range of skills to choose from.