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<blockquote data-quote="Ibrandul" data-source="post: 8421477" data-attributes="member: 6871736">Cleric. That’s partly because I most often play in, and almost always DM in, the Forgotten Realms, where the pantheons are extensive (or bloated and overstuffed, take your pick) and the various faiths were rather fully fleshed out in some of the most impressive RPG lore supplements ever published (I’m talking about Eric Boyd’s four patheon books in the 2e and 3e eras).It's definitely my favorite class thematically, and an underrated play experience mechanically, in 5e but also (at least in FR) in 2 and 3e. I doubt the current generation of players could make sense out of the “No one wants to play the cleric because they’re boring” trope. (“I don’t like clerics because [I take religion very seriously / I have a hard time taking religion seriously]” seems to be more common these days, I find, than the old “It’s no fun to run a one-trick healbot.”)In 5e, I’ve played, or DM’d for players who played, clerics of Kelemvor, Mystra, Selûne, and Tymora. They all played differently enough to keep me coming back. (I’ve even played two different clerics of Kelemvor, both very different personalities and somewhat different builds despite both having the Grave domain).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ibrandul, post: 8421477, member: 6871736"] Cleric. That’s partly because I most often play in, and almost always DM in, the Forgotten Realms, where the pantheons are extensive (or bloated and overstuffed, take your pick) and the various faiths were rather fully fleshed out in some of the most impressive RPG lore supplements ever published (I’m talking about Eric Boyd’s four patheon books in the 2e and 3e eras). It's definitely my favorite class thematically, and an underrated play experience mechanically, in 5e but also (at least in FR) in 2 and 3e. I doubt the current generation of players could make sense out of the “No one wants to play the cleric because they’re boring” trope. (“I don’t like clerics because [I take religion very seriously / I have a hard time taking religion seriously]” seems to be more common these days, I find, than the old “It’s no fun to run a one-trick healbot.”) In 5e, I’ve played, or DM’d for players who played, clerics of Kelemvor, Mystra, Selûne, and Tymora. They all played differently enough to keep me coming back. (I’ve even played two different clerics of Kelemvor, both very different personalities and somewhat different builds despite both having the Grave domain). [/QUOTE]

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