D&D 5E What class is your first 5e character?

[GameDoc]

I'm in two campaigns and in an amazing toss of Tymora's coin, I'm DMing neither.

In the play-by-post game I'm in here at EN World, I'm playing a NG dwarf fighter with a soldier background. He's not the brightest guy (Int 8) and his personality reflects that in being prone to very straight forward, simple solutions that often involve breaking things. But he's dependable and loyal to family and friends. He has the defense fighting style to give an AC bump and offset him foregoing a shield in favor of wielding a maul, which he affectionately calls "Sweet Meduna" (Meduna being a reference to an obscure goddess of mead from Gaulish myth).

In my local home group, I'm playing a CG halfling cleric of Brandobaris, the halfling demigod of trickery and adventure. Obviously, I took the trickery domain and to keep with the general roguish theme, I took leather armor, a sling, and dagger but kept a shield to use as a holy symbol. We randomly rolled our background and I wound up with sage. So I have the suggested traits of loving mysteries and being distracted by new information. I took the "book of terrible secrets" bond and have him trying to lay low until he can figure out what to do with it. My plan is to forego an ability boost at 4th level in favor of the skilled feat and pick up Deception, Stealth, and whatever third proficiency seems to be needed at the time.

 

[CrusaderX]

Human Paladin
Oath of Vengeance
Dexterity-based, wielding a Rapier

Roughly based in Inigo Montoya from the Princess Bride.

Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die!

Instead of one specific person being the target of his wrath, he sets his focus on whatever evil is in front of him, and engages the biggest threat. But he tackles it with the same determination and bravado as Inigo would.

 

[TerraDave]

We might now have enough votes to draw some conclusions.

Wizards remain popular with ENWorlders, more confirmation that the bard, paladin, and (especially) warlock have been well served by 5E, and the monk is doing pretty good. A little surprised that the cleric and druid aren't doing better, wonder if the bard is part of the reason. And the sorcerer is off crying in the corner. I guess dragon and wild casters just don't have big appeal, or people aren't quite getting the meta-magic.

 

[Scripture]

Human Paladin
Oath of Vengeance
Dexterity-based, wielding a Rapier

Roughly based in Inigo Montoya from the Princess Bride.

Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die!

Instead of one specific person being the target of his wrath, he sets his focus on whatever evil is in front of him, and engages the biggest threat. But he tackles it with the same determination and bravado as Inigo would.

If he doesn't at least fight kobolds with his left hand, you've failed in your quest.

I wish you joy playing this character. I love that movie. The remote always gets tossed aside when I land on it. Inigo is so perfect to play in D&D.

Nice work.

 

[Sacrosanct]

I've DM'd mostly, but have played a half dozen or so classes. So far the one I'm playing this Saturday as well seems to be one of my favorites:

human Monk (path of the shadow), urchin background, magic initiate feat with eldritch blast, minor illusion cantrips, and Hex as the first level spell. So far using Hex in combination of flurry of blows is nice. Very nice...