Which core class you never play?
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Rodrigo Istalindir
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A pox upon those that would denigrate the bard. 'Tis a noble calling, bringing joy to the unwashed masses, and a bit of coin (legit or otherwise) to the entertainer.
How can you not like the guy that can talk you out of trouble when the dumb barbarian hits on the mayor's daughter? Or find the only shop in town that has that rare material component the wizard needs?
Who else can embarrass the haughty noble by using a little legerdermain to make him choke on his drink, and then write a song that the whole town is singing the next day?
And when the Gatekeeper arrives and asks 'Are you a god?' who do you want to answer the question for you? The bard, that's who.
Monks, on the other hand, are a waste of the paper they are printed on
How can you not like the guy that can talk you out of trouble when the dumb barbarian hits on the mayor's daughter? Or find the only shop in town that has that rare material component the wizard needs?
Who else can embarrass the haughty noble by using a little legerdermain to make him choke on his drink, and then write a song that the whole town is singing the next day?
And when the Gatekeeper arrives and asks 'Are you a god?' who do you want to answer the question for you? The bard, that's who.
Monks, on the other hand, are a waste of the paper they are printed on
StalkingBlue
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PHB Ranger.
The_Gneech
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Druids don't do anything for me; I control a lizardfolk druid cohort in one game, and the fact that he's lizardfolk is a lot more interesting to me than the fact that he's a druid. Although the idea of him shifting into an alligator sometime is appealing.
Sorcerers are kinda one-trick-ponyish for me; I remember a Dragon magazine article that referred to sorcerers as "the magic missile machine," and that is kinda what they boil down to in my mind.
YMMV.
-The Gneech
Sorcerers are kinda one-trick-ponyish for me; I remember a Dragon magazine article that referred to sorcerers as "the magic missile machine," and that is kinda what they boil down to in my mind.
YMMV.
-The Gneech
Psionicist
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I never play barbarians and fighters. I just don't like the combat aspect of D&D, it's too slow and all the dice rolling and rules will instantly get you "off character".
TroyXavier
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For me, it's clerics. The way I end up playing them would not really work well in a group atmosphere. I don't play Barbarians, Fighters or Paladins much either.
Wombat
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I have never played a Monk and just can't imagine it unless someone were to run an Asian-based campaign in my presence. Even then I'd probably choose something else. Certainly in most standard hemi-semi-demi-Medieval European campaigns I find them ridiculously out of place.
I have never played a Sorcerer or a Barbarian, but I am open to those options, depending on the campaign. My problem here is not so much a disliking of the classes as the fact that most of the time I am "Behind The Screen", so I rarely get to actually play.
I have never played a Sorcerer or a Barbarian, but I am open to those options, depending on the campaign. My problem here is not so much a disliking of the classes as the fact that most of the time I am "Behind The Screen", so I rarely get to actually play.
milotha
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I've tended to avoid playing Paladin, Barbarian, Bard, and to some extent Druid. I view that these classes (with the near exception of druid) are specialized versions of combinations of the various other core classes. Almost to the point of being stereotypes.
Paladin: I find the alignment to constraining on me and the party, and the potential to get stripped of your powers by DM fiat/misunderstanding is annoying. Having to contstantly distract the paladin when the group wants to do a neutral, chaotic act is annoying. Plus, the holier-than-thou attitude can get old. Why not play a fighter/priest of a lawful good god = less baggage.
Barbarian: This is just a variant on fighter. The speedy, angry, dumb fighter. Not that its a bad class to play mechanistically wise. It just seems to be a narrowly defined stereotype. Though, I have played them.
Bard: The singing, instrument playing charismatic subvariant of the wizard. I really think the problem with this class is that they wanted a jack-of-all-trades but they couldn't give up on the bard music idea, so they crammed them into one class. It just doesn't work. I'd have rather seen that the bard was a prestige class for wizards. Then make a new class called say The Generalist that was semi good at everything: mid fighter, mid arcase caster, mid skills etc...
Druid: While I love the class and the idea, I'm even playing one right now, the fact that your spell list is suboptimal in dungeon and city encounters gets old real quick. Couldn't they have designed some new spells for the druid to make them more effective outside of the woods? I keep wishing that I had played a cleric of nature, especially since there aren't any clerics in the party.
Paladin: I find the alignment to constraining on me and the party, and the potential to get stripped of your powers by DM fiat/misunderstanding is annoying. Having to contstantly distract the paladin when the group wants to do a neutral, chaotic act is annoying. Plus, the holier-than-thou attitude can get old. Why not play a fighter/priest of a lawful good god = less baggage.
Barbarian: This is just a variant on fighter. The speedy, angry, dumb fighter. Not that its a bad class to play mechanistically wise. It just seems to be a narrowly defined stereotype. Though, I have played them.
Bard: The singing, instrument playing charismatic subvariant of the wizard. I really think the problem with this class is that they wanted a jack-of-all-trades but they couldn't give up on the bard music idea, so they crammed them into one class. It just doesn't work. I'd have rather seen that the bard was a prestige class for wizards. Then make a new class called say The Generalist that was semi good at everything: mid fighter, mid arcase caster, mid skills etc...
Druid: While I love the class and the idea, I'm even playing one right now, the fact that your spell list is suboptimal in dungeon and city encounters gets old real quick. Couldn't they have designed some new spells for the druid to make them more effective outside of the woods? I keep wishing that I had played a cleric of nature, especially since there aren't any clerics in the party.
El Ravager
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Sorceror. For arcane casters, I much perfer the wizard. Wizard has can make use of a larger variety of spells which means more options in my opinion. I might play a sorceror with very themed spell choices sometime, but I DM more than I play and sorceror is very low on my list of characters I want to try.
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