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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Greg K" data-source="post: 8419813" data-attributes="member: 5038"><p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">1e:  I liked the Ranger (following the UA additions) and Thief.  I liked the theme and class abilities.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">David Howery's revised Barbarian from Dragon Magazine as it fixed issues with the official version and made for a nice non-spellcasting wilderness warrior and supported cultural variations .</li> </ul></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">2e.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Cleric: I liked Domains and, as a DM tool, The Complete Priest's Handbook. I</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Ranger (see 1e)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Thief (especially, with the Complete Thief's Handbook) for tailoring the class to fit many thief archetypes</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">several of the classes in Mayfair Games's Witches: It better fit many spellcasters from pre-D&D influences</li> </ul></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">3e.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Green Ronin's Psychic: Finally, a class whose mechanics felt closer to how things worked in Firestarter, X-men, and some other sources that escape me right now.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Green Ronin's Shaman: Mechanically, it still my favorite take. It didn't focus the class on totems. It  recognized that different cultures often associate different spirits to different characteristics (e.g. Healing, Trickery). The spell list felt thematically appropriate and the book looked at "shamans" from different cultures and did a good examination of the overall topic.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Green Ronin's Witch: Again my favorite witch class. It covered a wide variety of "witches"  from myth, legends, and fantasy stories, and modern tradtitions. The spell list theme felt appropriate. Also, it did a good job of looking at themes associated with certain witchcraft traditions</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Barbarian (with UA cultural weapons variant, Crafty hunter, and Favored Environment variants) as they allowed  for many cultural variants</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Cleric: if using the DMG variant: Tailored Spell Lists and UA variant: Cloistered Cleric. It allowed for customization of the class to better a variety of deities.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Rogue w/ UA Martial and Wilderness variants as the variants allowed the class to better model a wide variety of rogues archetypes from stories, tv, movies,</li> </ul></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">4e:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Fighter and Rogue for the interesting class abiities and builds</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Ranger for allowing for a non-magical version.</li> </ul></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">5e.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">the Bard: finally, a version that fits the pre-D&D bards from myth and legends, and books such as the Mists of Avalon</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Fighter (Battlemaster) for its customization and maneuvers.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Khaalis's Light Armored Fighter variant for handling the Light Armored Warrior as I envision them based on movies</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"></li> </ul></li> </ul></blockquote><p></p>

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