When building a new PC...

[der_kluge]

A) Are you more likely to start with a character idea, and then find classes, feats and prestige classes to best represent?

B) Or do you find a class or prestige class in the books and go "ooh, ooh! That looks cool! I want to play that!"

I'm not trying to disparage the second method. Both are valid. I'm just curious which one is more common.

This is a poll.

 

[Crothian]

I don't just lean towards A; I am A.

 

[Odhanan]

I tend to switch between both options, depending on the tastes of the day.

 

[HugeOgre]

I prefer A to the point of not really considering B unless Im doing some kind of research on how balanced it ultimately is. Some of my most memorable RPing experiences have been some random event or story arc that took my character is a new direction I never originally imagined. I still remember too the DM who gave my wife's sorceress an alienist level after she foolheartedly asked her incorporeal familiar (which communicated by showing it pictures in her head) what it had scene inside the alien artifact.

 

[Darklone]

A.

I see a lot of prestige classes here and there and I do think sometimes I want to try that... yet I never did. I always start to think about something funny and then I list the various options how to realise that char.

 

[Rystil Arden]

A) Are you more likely to start with a character idea, and then find classes, feats and prestige classes to best represent?

B) Or do you find a class or prestige class in the books and go "ooh, ooh! That looks cool! I want to play that!"

I'm not trying to disparage the second method. Both are valid. I'm just curious which one is more common.

This is a poll.

I'm A--but I do have moments of seeing a Prestige Class, Base Class, etc, and saying "Ooh, now I can play that character idea I came up with a while ago and never could work out exactly before now"

 

[seans23]

I am a precious little snowflake... and I didn't read the rest.

 

[Seeten]

I tend to start with a miniature or picture, and work from there.

Sometimes I start with a concept. I have made some concepts out of interesting classes, too, but normally I start with a picture, and then conceptualize from there.

 

[Agamon]

90% of the time, it's A. But when new classes and PrCs come out, I sometimes think, "That's cool, what kind of PC/NPC could I build around that?"

 

[Angel Tarragon]

I'm 1% B, 99% A.