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Your default basic preference as a player?

Started by Vic99, January 19, 2015, 08:14:40 PM

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Vic99

January 19, 2015, 08:14:40 PM
Which would you play usually?

talysman

#1
January 19, 2015, 08:34:17 PM
I usually run, rather than play. When I do play, I typically do Magic-User, but I sometimes play other classes. Last time I played, I did a cleric, because I was a late addition to an ongoing game and took over an NPC in the party.

Xavier Onassiss

#3
January 19, 2015, 09:11:02 PM
Hmmm... don't think I ever played a game with only four class options. Doubt that I ever will, either.

YourSwordisMine

#4
January 19, 2015, 09:29:35 PM
I am a big fan of clerics.
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Gronan of Simmerya

#5
January 19, 2015, 09:43:06 PM
42 years of playing, more characters than I can count.

1 Cleric, 1 Paladin, 1 Elf, 2 magic users.

Everything else has been fighters.
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Bren

#6
January 19, 2015, 10:01:44 PM
Quote from: Old Geezer;81082542 years of playing, more characters than I can count.

1 Cleric, 1 Paladin, 1 Elf, 2 magic users.

Everything else has been fighters.
And all of them thieves. ;)
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flyerfan1991

#7
January 19, 2015, 10:16:22 PM
Cleric.

I got roped into playing a cleric in college --we had no other healers-- and I've been playing one in one form or another ever since.

Spinachcat

#8
January 19, 2015, 10:34:01 PM
Whatever the party needs...which usually means the Cleric.

Of course, I'm an ass so I rarely take healing spells. They're the least interesting divine spells. Then I choose a minor deity in the setting that I find most interesting and run riot.

Vic99

#9
January 19, 2015, 10:40:59 PM
I could have put more classes but wanted to keep it simple.   If you want to answer poll, please put closest match for most of time. Obviously for a good number of people there will be variation

Gronan of Simmerya

#11
January 19, 2015, 10:59:34 PM Last Edit: January 19, 2015, 11:01:58 PM by Gronan of Simmerya
Quote from: Bren;810827And all of them thieves. ;)

Nonsense.  Several of them have been exemplars of chivalric virtue despite not being called a "paladin."  And some folk know how to properly express their gratitude to the valiant knight who saved them.  (check, cash, money order, negotiable securities, bearer bonds...)

But sometimes that gets quite perilous too...:D  "We are but eight score young blondes and brunettes..."
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Gronan of Simmerya

#12
January 19, 2015, 11:00:47 PM
Quote from: flyerfan1991;810829Cleric.

I got roped into playing a cleric in college --we had no other healers-- and I've been playing one in one form or another ever since.

Lots of people really like OD&D clerics.  Fight almost as well as a fighter, fastest class advancement, lowest "name" level, gobs of divine aid once you set up your stronghold.
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MonsterSlayer

#13
January 19, 2015, 11:38:21 PM
Fighter... when I get to be a player, to me the (and this is complete subjective) the fighter class just seems be the one I feel I can come up with a fun character concept to play.

woodsmoke

#14
January 20, 2015, 12:01:35 AM
I'm honestly kind of surprised fighter is so much in the lead. I generally can't play a fighter to save my life, they just bore me to tears.

In D&D/PF, I'm rogue all the way. Give me ALL of the skills. And preferably a low wisdom score so I can really put 'em to use getting myself and everyone around me into/out of trouble, usually of my own making.

In other games without Vancian magic, it's a pretty even split between rogue-types and magic users. I really like playing support/utility characters.
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