D&D 5E When you do not know what class to play, just use your birthdate

[NotAYakk]

Trying to figure out where monk fits in. It upholds the symmetry if you call them "trickster" and bards "trickster/mage", but monks don't strike me as trickstery for the most part. I take it both paladin and ranger are "warrior/priest", since paladin:cleric::ranger:druid? And if you put monk in the "trickster" bin, then both bard and warlock are "trickster/mage"?

Warrior: Barb/Fighter
Priest: Druid/Cleric
Mage: Sorcerer/Wizard
Trickster: Rogue/Monk

Warrior Priest: Paladin
Priest Mage: Bard
Mage Trickster: Warlock
Trickster Warrior: Ranger

And yes is rough - I mean, probably I should swap warlock and bard.

 

[Esker]

Monks really shine when they can go nova, and perform worse than other martial classes when they cannot. Some of the most effective monks I've ever seen built themselves to be useful between novas, while still saving for their nova.

I'm not sure I see how this connects to the 'four archetypes' question? Can you clarify for me?

 

[Seramus]

I'm not sure I see how this connects to the 'four archetypes' question? Can you clarify for me?

Controller is a better term than Trickster, as a precedent. 5E Monks make good controller/striker hybrids.

 

[NotAYakk]

They aren't intended to be game-mechanical. Which is why, now that I think about it, I misfiled Bard (as a healer-mage as a priest) and warlock (who is a mage/priest thematically).

Warriors are beefy boys and girls who stand in front and fight.
Tricksters are sly and skilled.
Mages (or Sages) know things, magical things.
Priests serve a greater power.

Rangers, despite being a kind of druid-fighter hybrid, fit better as a trickster warrior. Their unique (non-druid/fighter stuff) is stealthy and tracking and hunting.

 

[Eltab]

Man, the Ranger needs a better symbol. I get that it's supposed to be crossed curved swords.
But all I'm seeing is hedge clippers.... Or maybe metal shears. Either way I'm sure that's not what's intended.

Maybe a bow-and-arrows? Other symbols include swords and axes but no bow.
Or just the paw? (Can be stylized based on local apex predator.)

 

[jayoungr]

Hmm, the choice for my birthday is in fact one that I haven't yet played successfully but am interested in trying.

 

[Richards]

Interesting, in that I'd be assigned a sorcerer and that's one of the PC classes I'd be most interested in trying. (That or perhaps a monk.) As I'm usually the DM, I have all of two standard D&D PCs to my name thus far: a human fighter and a lizardfolk (eventually he'll be a barbarian/ranger, but right now I'm still paying off my Level Adjustment tax).

Johnathan