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Do you have a "preferred class"?

Started by RPGPundit, April 25, 2009, 02:51:06 PM

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jswa

#15
April 26, 2009, 03:08:35 PM
I don't have a favored class or archetype or anything like that. I tend to just go with whatever sounds good at the time.

jeff37923

#16
April 26, 2009, 03:49:43 PM
I tend to go for the independant types that are not so far gone as to be the Antisocial Moody Loner. That comes out to being Bards and Wizards in fantasy, the Belter or Ethically Challenged Merchant in Sci-Fi, and the Snoopy Reporter in Pulp games.

I also tend to try and do subtle comedy riffs as character traits. In the current Pathfinder game I'm in, my character is a Wizard who joined up with the party in order to make enough money to pay off his loans to the local College of Wizardry.
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JongWK

#17
April 26, 2009, 03:59:37 PM
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Soylent Green

#18
April 26, 2009, 05:14:12 PM
No real preferences. Actually I'm kind like picking up pre-gens (as raw stats not a pre-generated background) or randomly rolled stuff and see if I can find the character behind the numbers.

I will shy away from character classes which are mechanically complicated to play. If the GM gives me five pages of spells, I'm pretty much going to ignore most of it. I'm here to play a character, not Magic The Gathering.
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#19
April 26, 2009, 05:42:39 PM
Quote from: Pseudoephedrine;298697I play a lot of wizards and other knowledge based characters.

Ditto (although I very rarely get to play; I'm usually GM).
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#20
April 26, 2009, 06:36:23 PM
I prefer roguish types first, and intelligence types second.
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Ronin

#21
April 27, 2009, 12:38:07 AM
I dont really have a specific type of chaarcter I play. But the last couple characters I've played were fighters or barbarians. Typically a big lug, thats not book smart. But pretty common sense smart.
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beejazz

#22
April 27, 2009, 12:52:57 AM
I'm a fan of rogueish characters and hot-tempered ass-kickers. Thieves, brigands, and ruffians and all that.

Magic-users can be fun, but I am neither a fan of long spell lists nor Vancian magic... because both are a bit of a PITA to keep track of in comparison with fightier types.

Malleus Arianorum

#23
April 27, 2009, 09:53:04 AM
Cleric
I like rescuing the party from defeat. I like having high defenses and healing so I can survive long enough to rescue them. I like getting the other players back in the game when their characters are individually incapacitated. I like playing a character ideologically distinct from myself. I don't mind having lower DPT than dedicated fighters. I love versitility -- using an overlooked spell for the obscure corner case I worried about.
 
If we're not playing D&D I like to play mediocre characters with narrow specialties and the ability to mitigate disaster.
 
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Spike

#24
April 27, 2009, 01:12:41 PM
I can usually be counted on to play a straight forward fighter (or the equivilent in different games), though I often 'mix it up' in how I go about doing the fighter guy (last one was a light armored dual flail wielding mercenary... not very conventional or optomized, obviously).

Recently, however, I've been playing a lot of clerics, ranging from a spear and sheild spartan style cleric of Athena, to a Techsmith of Gond.

For the upcoming shadowrun game I'll be doing a drone rigger/hacker.  Player by proxie seems to be a unifying theme currently.
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PaladinCA

#25
April 27, 2009, 01:34:07 PM
Quote from: RPGPundit;298684Is there a class or type of character you tend to play most often?

RPGPundit

Yes. I'll let you guess. :cool:

One Horse Town

#26
April 27, 2009, 02:27:37 PM
Quote from: PaladinCA;298865Yes. I'll let you guess. :cool:

I love the CA too. :D

flyingmice

#27
April 27, 2009, 02:46:44 PM
I have no class.

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PaladinCA

#28
April 27, 2009, 03:08:39 PM
Quote from: One Horse Town;298882I love the CA too. :D

I have to ask...

Other than a heavy cruiser or California's postal abbreviation, what the heck is a CA?

Cranewings

#29
April 27, 2009, 05:11:26 PM
I used to play nothing but paladins. Now that I'm a medic and teach martial arts, all I play are rogues with drug and alcohol problems.
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