What is your favorite new D&D classes?

[francisca]

I really like the Warlock. I like it so much I'm porting it back to 1e.

 

[Greylock]

IMO one of the most lameass things about 3e's combat system is that it is so heavy-handed in discouraging players from moving around in combat. Move more than 5 feet, and no full round of attacks for you. Move more than 5 feet, and you will often provoke an attack of opportunity. In D&D, stasis is a position of strength. If you're moving, you're losing.

I like that argument. But one feat, Mobility, gives any class pretty decent protection from AoO's. Guess I might need to buy the CV sometime and read it more closely. Didn't realise the Scout kept his full attack. That would be cool.

I'm in that pre-game "convinced-my-char-is-gonna-die" mode, so I'm shopping around.

 

[Arbiter of Wyrms]

I like the swashbuckler, too, but I like the AU unfetterred more, especially with the availablity of the warmain. the Akashic is so broad that it becomes the ultimate skill monkey. I love it. The warlock is great flavor and innovative mechanics. The scout is better than a ranger/rogue muticlass if your concept is, well, scout.

 

[Staffan]

Didn't realise the Scout kept his full attack. That would be cool.

He doesn't, generally. Though there are ways for him to move and get a full attack. The most obvious one is to get Mounted Archery and have his mount move for him, but there are some other abilities around that can be used to move and get a full attack (most require multiclassing though).

 

[Gruns]

Spirit Shaman

Spirit Shaman

Definately the next class I try out. I just have a fondness for Shaman, thanks to Everquest.
Later!
Gruns

 

[Soel]

So it's not just me that thinks that!

Yeah, the Wilder is a great class, although I think I'm prejudiced by how my friend plays his in our Living Arcanis games, he throws himself off the chair whenever he flubs a surge, singing "I'm a little teapot!" or something similarly nonsensical. The idea of a psion who has awesome power but no control or focus is a neat archetype, and the Wilder fills it well.

I just don't think the Wilder is all that...Wild. The fact that one does have control of their powers is what really ticks me. I'd like a variant that is a little more reckless. Maybe a variable power manifestation or something...

I chose the Psion (just great,) the Warlock (I'm thinking of using it as the role of the Sorceror,) and the Spirit Shaman (to be done effectively, Clerics need different versions depending on race/culture/religion, and this is a step in the right direction.)

 

[Remathilis]

For those interested, as of 11:45 EST on 4/23, the Top 5.

1. Warlock
2. Scout
3. Psion
4. Psy Warrior
5. Artificer

Bottom 5:
1. Samurai
2. Mystic
3. Shukenja
4. Wu Jen
5. Noble

What does that say to me? You like classes that do something innovative (warlock infinite casting, scout moblity, psion powers, artificer item creation & infusion) and dislike oriental and Dragonlance classes (or aren't very familiar with the latter.)

 

[Gez]

My favorite classes are: Healer, Hexblade, Marshall, Scout, Sohei, Warmage.

Three of them are missing from the poll.


If I mind-controlled the WotC staff, the Complete books would have had four base classes each: Hexblade, Marshall, Sohei, Swashbuckler for CW; Favored Soul, Healer, Shugenja, Spirit Shaman for CD; Warlock, Warmage, Wu Jen, and a scholarly class (with Int-based spellcasting, lore, lots of skills and skill points, and a spell list like the wizard's but without abjuration, evocation, and transmutation) for CA; Ninja, Scout, Shaman, and Spellthief for the other CA.

All the MH and OA classes would thus have been mainstreamed, except for the samurai -- given how lame the CW Samurai is, it was as good not to update it. Speaking of that, the Swashbuckler is lame, too.

 

[Tuzenbach]

The Chameleon is a Prestige Class. This is about base classes.

http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/iw/20041210b&page=1

Ohhhhhhhhhhhh. I see now. So sorry.

 

[Tuzenbach]

If I mind-controlled the WotC staff, the Complete books would have had four base classes each: Hexblade, Marshall, Sohei, Swashbuckler for CW; Favored Soul, Healer, Shugenja, Spirit Shaman for CD; Warlock, Warmage, Wu Jen, and a scholarly class (with Int-based spellcasting, lore, lots of skills and skill points, and a spell list like the wizard's but without abjuration, evocation, and transmutation) for CA; Ninja, Scout, Shaman, and Spellthief for the other CA.

All the MH and OA classes would thus have been mainstreamed, except for the samurai -- given how lame the CW Samurai is, it was as good not to update it. Speaking of that, the Swashbuckler is lame, too.

Hey, it's never too late for a PHB II, containing ALL the new core classes.