What class can you not bring yourself to play?

[der_kluge]

When I first started playing D&D (way back when), thieves were all I wanted to play. Eventually, I branched out, and started playing a lot of clerics and wizards. Nowadays, I seem to have a lot of concepts for sorcerers, and clerics to some degree. I intend to put a druid in there somewhere, too. And I still have a certain fondness for rogues, though rogue/spellcasters are nice, and I'd try a bard, too, if the class didn't suck so much (let's not debate that here, plz).

But I just can't bring myself to playing fighters, barbarians, monks, or rangers. I've played Paladins in the past, and more or less was ok with the class. It's the others I can't stomach.

Oh, I've got nothing against those classes. This isn't about mechanics, it's about me playing those classes. I don't know what it is. I could see playing a fighter, maybe, under the right circumstances, but definitely not those others.

What about you? Is there any class(es) that you just can't see yourself playing, ever?

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

Barbarian. I just don't like it. Everything else, no problem, but I'm just not the kind to play a Barbarian.

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

Monks, definitely not.

Paladins -- not a big fan.

 

[IronWolf]

I think I am willing to play any of the core classes. I had avoided clerics for some time but I worked up a dwarven cleric for the RPGA's Legacy of the Green Regent and he is a lot of fun to play. I just had to get away from the clerics are for healing mentality and choosing a dwarven cleric certainly helped me with that!

I do have my preferences of course, I tend towards rogues or rangers. I would say that barbarians are pretty low on the list, but I wouldn't rule them completely out.

 

[Lonely Tylenol]

Not a class, exactly, but more of a concept...well, it's a class in Complete Warrior...

Swashbuckler. I can't imagine playing a swashbuckling hero whose rapier is as sharp as his wit and his repartee is a hit with the ladies he rescues from the clutches of evil. Pirate, dashing rogue, whatever, I'm never going to play one of them. I just wouldn't have fun.

Ironically, I ran a whole swashbuckling campaign once, which gave my players lots of opportunity for buckling of swashes in various iterations. But it's not my bag, baby. Not that I don't enjoy dex-based fighter builds. But there's a difference between a nimble weapon expert and a swashbuckler that basically comes down to personality. Duelist? Any day. Elven thinblade master? Sure. But the moment I have to swing on a chandelier and then make snappy comments about my opponents' style, I get bored. Robin Hood I'm not.

 

[A'koss]

The Bard.

That's the only class I cannot bring myself to play. I'll fill any other slot in the party - even a cleric or druid (my next least favorites). However, I. just. can't. get. over. the silly magic singing... sorry.

 

[ThirdWizard]

To me, there is nothing more boring than a single classed fighter.

 

[Crothian]

none of them, not that I have played them all (styill haven't tried the Barbarian, Paladin, and Wizard). In fact I have yet to see a class I cannot find a way to have fun with.

 

[Starglim]

I think I've played all the core classes except a druid, and still wouldn't rule that out. Some of the new base classes just annoy me by their existence and thus I'm not likely to play a Samurai, Scout or Ninja.

 

[DaveMage]

The Bard.

That's the only class I cannot bring myself to play. I'll fill any other slot in the party - even a cleric or druid (my next least favorites). However, I. just. can't. get. over. the silly magic singing... sorry.

I'm with you there. I hate the bard class.

I'm also not fond of the druid class (though this is probably because I like dungeon crawls, which in 1E and 2E were never druid friendly).