What class can you not bring yourself to play?

[snarfoogle]

Barbarian - While barbarians can be smart, I just don't like the idea of a low-intelligence character.

Bard - Singing does not belong in adventuring. Unless it's the plucky cohort.

 

[der_kluge]

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

I tend to agree. I think if I played a fighter (or a barbarian) - someone who couldn't really do anything other than just beat stuff up - I'd have to have some elaborate backstory, and lots of history, and some compelling reasons to be adventuring. I'd have a really hard time just slapping together a fighter and saying, "all right, let's go bash in some skulls!" That's so not me.

 

[Felix]

Heh, actually, with the exception of Wizards and Sorcs, my problem is sticking with one class. I'm just a multi-classing monkey I guess.

Barbarian is a great base class for the character's origins, but I have a hard time seeing a character just stay there.

Bards are great for a dip... I have a Druid/Master of Many Forms that I'm thinking of taking one or two of Bard to make him more fey-ish.

Rogues are the ultimate multiclassing class.

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I guess if anything, Monk is the class I'm least interested in playing straight through.

And I just love the Bard. Has to be done right, though. None of this [lyrics] "Jump, Jump, Jump the Chasm" [/lyrics] stuff.

 

[Buttercup]

I'd play any of the core classes in the right circumstances, but I think Ranger would be my least favorite.

I just realized that I haven't ever played a character that didn't have at least one level in a spellcasting class. Right now I'm playing a bard in one game, and a Fighter/Sorcerer in another game. Both are great fun.

Now, if you really want to get me to display some d02 type hat, then start a thread asking what race we'd never play. My list is long.

 

[der_kluge]

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 could see myself playing a Harper in HARP (the bard equivalent), but I can't bring myself to do it in d20. I tried, I thought it was horribly weak. I switched to rogue/sorcerer, and immediately got more spells, and more skill points. Go figure. Of course, that was 3.0. They are marginally better in 3.5, but not by much. The musical magic stuff destroys the verisimilitude for me, I agree.

HARP Harpers don't have that. They have spells like wizards, and have artistic and roguish skills which they can choose from. It's really quite flexible. No silly musical magical effects in that system.

 

[Raven Crowking]

Commoner.

Just can't play one. Unless I'm DMing, anyway.


RC

 

[der_kluge]

I'd play any of the core classes in the right circumstances, but I think Ranger would be my least favorite.

I just realized that I haven't ever played a character that didn't have at least one level in a spellcasting class. Right now I'm playing a bard in one game, and a Fighter/Sorcerer in another game. Both are great fun.

Now, if you really want to get me to display some d02 type hat, then start a thread asking what race we'd never play. My list is long.

You asked -

http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?p=2122649#post2122649

 

[JoeBlank]

I don't have a complete and total dislike for any of the core classes, and have been making an effort to eventually have played each of them, even if it is a character with only a couple of levels of a particular class. The few that I have not gotten around to yet:

Druid: Something about them does not work for me, and I think it is wildshape. I don't like the idea of playing a character that wildshapes to fight. I can deal with an occasional shape change into a bird for flight, or something else for sneaking, but I would feel like I was grossly underplaying the class, not living up to potential. I'm considering a few levels of druid, maybe even for a mystic theurge for kind of a woodsy wizard.

Monk: Probably at the bottom of my list. I like monk NPCs, but just don't see them as adventurers. Again, maybe a couple of levels of monk and then go on to something else.

Paladin: May be next on my list, although I have never played on in any incarnation of the game. Not sure why.

 

[Richards]

I wouldn't enjoy playing a bard at all. Druids and barbarians are pretty low on my list, too.

Johnathan

 

[Tatsukun]

Picture this: A dark cave filled with the deep rumbling snoring of a powerful wyrm. Our gang of heroes enters slowly, the mage's body crackling with arcane power, the fighter tightening his grip on his trusted blade, the Cleric radiating holy power and ...

...the bard. Who takes out a harp and starts doing a 'magic' jig.

Oh my god. You will never catch me playing a bard. In fact, I hate them so much they don't exist in my home brew.

-Tatsu