What Classes are roleplayed the WORSE ?

[FrankTrollman]

I'm going to say Bards.

I've seen people play alot of different kinds of Barbarians. I've seen more different kinds of clerics than I can count. I've seen a variety of different takes on Druids. I've seen "Fighters" so diverse it would make your head spin. I've seen Rangers and Rogues that were unique and entertaining. Some of the coolest characters I've ever played or played alongside have been Paladins. I've seen Sorcerers and Wizards who were fun just to listen to.

But there's only one kind of Bard and I am really tired of that archetype. I've been sick of him since the mid eighties and I want him to die.

-Frank

 

[Gellion]

I'm going to say Bards.

I've seen people play alot of different kinds of Barbarians. I've seen more different kinds of clerics than I can count. I've seen a variety of different takes on Druids. I've seen "Fighters" so diverse it would make your head spin. I've seen Rangers and Rogues that were unique and entertaining. Some of the coolest characters I've ever played or played alongside have been Paladins. I've seen Sorcerers and Wizards who were fun just to listen to.

But there's only one kind of Bard and I am really tired of that archetype. I've been sick of him since the mid eighties and I want him to die.

-Frank

Agreed, i always see Bards being role-played as being promiscuis. It gets very annoying after a while.

 

[fusangite]

I've seen individual episodes of Paladins, Rangers and others being played badly but the classes I see as consistently mis-played are monks and clerics. I tend to find that modern people have difficulty understanding how to play highly religious characters; there tends to be a facile, one-dimensional idea of what it means to be religious.

 

[Tallok]

I have to say the arcane classes are the worst, as people can often just play them as reclusive or different, and have them cast spells, so the people playing them sometimes think they are different,as no one else is casting, but it's the same concept as a kill happy fighter without a personality

 

[Aaron L]

Paladins without question. I have also yet to see a monk played as anything other than a fighter who uses his fists instead of a sword. And everyone I have ever seen or read about who played a druid protrayed them a some kind of medieval Captain Planet instead of a priest of nature.

 

[Olive]

Wow... I've pretty much never seen anyone play anything like some of the problems you describe.

Lucky me!

 

[reapersaurus]

Definately Paladins.

But I included monks, too, since I am SO sick of the "orphan/abandoned raised by a monastery, reclusive silent fighter" I could puke.

 

[Oni]

I don't recall having ever personally seen anyone play a druid that, well, seemed druidy or really had much personality at all even.

 

[Gez]

There's no "elf" option on this poll.

(Yes, I know it's not a class, but Diaglo would tell you it is.)

My picks:

Barbarians. You don't have to be an inbred savage who hates magic, civilizations, elves, and females. Dude! Fafhrd's cooler than you!

Paladin. Murdering people just because you say they register as evil on your radar is neither lawful nor good. Also, lawful good don't means fascist -- that would rather be lawful evil, you know? In lawful good, there's "good". To me, it's more important than "lawful" for a paladin.

Bards. But the D&D class is to blame there. They've got the abilities of a skald with the description of a minstrel.

Rangers. There again, it's mostly a problem with the weird class' flavor.


Note that those are not from direct experience, but from stories I've heard from various people. In my little group, I would rather have to go with monk.

 

[The Souljourner]

I can't believe people have said Bards are the worst roleplayed characters. To my mind, they're the most fun out of any of the classes. The entire class is about style and flavor. I suppose if everyone played a bard as the wenching womanizer, then ok... but I've never seen anyone do that. It seems very childish.

I'm playing a bard right now, and he's boisterous and fun in the tavern, and as gung-ho about defeating evil guys as any paladin. I never play loud characters, so this is a really fun change of pace. I mean, really, if you can't have fun roleplaying a bard, you should go play warhammer.

That being said, I think most fighters are totally non-roleplayed. Too often it's "I'm a mercenary who fights for money." If even that much. A lot of times the character description is a list of feats and weapons. Feh.

-The Souljourner