Which class would YOU step into?

[sniffles]

Well I don't need to attract the ladies, being as I am one, and I'm too fearful of physical harm (not to mention lazy) to be a good warrior, too non-spiritual to be a cleric, and too clumsy to be a thief. So I guess I'd go for mage. Interestingly, the only class I've never played in D&D.

 

[diaglo]

i'd like to play cleric or mage.

but personally, i think thief fits me more.

 

[Tetsubo]

I voted Mage. But my real preference would be a Psychic from The Psychic's Handbook. That class is just so cool... though a Psion with a lot of mind control powers would also be cool...

 

[Driddle]

I voted Mage. But my real preference would be a Psychic from The Psychic's Handbook. That class is just so cool... though a Psion with a lot of mind control powers would also be cool...

A question to all you wannabe psions: How the heck would you physically act out the part of using your psionic powers in the game playing field?

The best image I can come up with is a cheesy head-twitching scene out of "Scanners." Maybe you carry your own "mental music" soundtrack with you to play in the background as you look deeply constipated?

And remember, the nature of live-action roleplaying is that you try to work the game mechanics of your class as effects into your actual interaction with the environment. If your powers are totally thought-driven, how and at what point do you explain to your peers what it is you're doing?

Really. I'd love to get an answer to this one.

 

[Tetsubo]

A question to all you wannabe psions: How the heck would you physically act out the part of using your psionic powers in the game playing field?

The best image I can come up with is a cheesy head-twitching scene out of "Scanners." Maybe you carry your own "mental music" soundtrack with you to play in the background as you look constipated?

Really. I'd love to get an answer to this one.

Personally I'd go for the Unblinking Stare myself. Just bore holes right thru their heads... the big advantage of the Psychic I mentioned is that range is often unimportant. I could use a power from across the world on a target...

 

[Rel]

Having read (and loved) these books and actually played in a few pseudo-LARPs, I'd have to go with Thief. I think it would mesh well with my nature and demand less of my (meh) acting skills.

But I'd probably gravitate toward being a Gamemaster. Conducting things with all that technical wizardry would appeal strongly to my control freak side.

 

[cmanos]

Probably wizard....unless cleric would entail not having a god and worshipping nature for nature's sake.

I have some fighting experience....12 years of martial arts, but I doubt that is really a qualification for monk.

 

[Patryn of Elvenshae]

i'd like to play cleric or mage.

but personally, i think thief fits me more.

What? No, "Fighting man is the only true class?"

 

[Thunderfoot]

Thief - although I prefer the term rogue. (Actually, I would be a lot closer to a bard.) But I have a plethorea of skills to rely on and usually survive by my wits - if that ain't a rogue, I'll eat my sap!

 

[diaglo]

What? No, "Fighting man is the only true class?"

in OD&D(1974) you qualified for all of the core classes (fighting man, magic-user, cleric, and the supplemental thief) no matter what your stats.

but as a min/maxer i would say my fighting man stats suXX.