What is your favourite traditional D&D class?

[laclongquan]

No sorcerer?

Depend on the game. Although mostly I try to play a skill-heavy talker class, so that's generally either rogue or wizard.

If there's no advantage in exploit skills, maybe Paladin. The most survivable class for an MC to hold.

 

[octavius]

Backstabbing Fighter/Thief

 

[Pink Eye]

Monk. I enjoy beating things up with my fists.

 

[Max Damage]

The poll is missing sorcerer, so I voted wizard. These are the most fun to stack in ToEE. Honorable mentions to druid and cleric.

 

[Luckmann]

Cleric, or Specialist Priest, or Cloistered Cleric, depending, and variations thereof.

Not even sure why. I think it's the whole religious spiel that gives a lot of options in traditionally polytheistic settings.

 

[pomenitul]

Necromancer edgelord/aspirant lich is the sole viable class.

 

[turkishronin]

Fighter
Sword and Shield baby

 

[Darth Canoli]

Aside from the Barbarian :

• Ninja
• Samouraï
• Bishop

 

[Catacombs]

Fighter
Wizard
Ranger

 

[lukaszek]

deterministic system > RNG

 

[Azalin]

Bard. A nice fella capable of playing guitar.

 

[Chippy]

Ranger. Then I went over to Warlock for NWN2. Then back to Ranger again, because Warlock seemed to be so useless that nobody has touched it since. There seems to be a similiar class in P:K but I haven't gone into it yet.
So I seem to have an affinity for lost causes. Although in the day or so that I played POE as a Ranger, I think Sawyer managed to bring the class down to new depths of total despair. And it was too much, even for me.

 

[King Crispy]

Let's see you try this with anyone else.

 

[sputtering fart balloon]

Paladin. For having arguments.

 

[mondblut]

Traditional D&D classes are: fighter, mage, cleric, thief, elf, dwarf and halfling. Not this monk bard shit

Anyways, rangers are good when dualclassed to mages after level 15 or so.

 

[fantadomat]

In a table game they could be very useful in non combat,in combat they are decent archers or backstabbing bastards.

 

[gurugeorge]

Archer-type Bard, if available. (But maybe that's because I'm a musician irl )

Failing that, an Arcane Archer type of deal, if available, or maybe a Ranger if also good at a bit of magic.

Failing that, anything fiddly and pre-buffy. Why press one button to do a thing when you can press 5, I always say.

 

[Abu Antar]

Always monk.

 

[Latro]

sling >>>> swords, axes, bows, daggers, etc

 

[Dwarvophile]

Rogue
&
Anti-Paladin ( enjoyed playing that half elf anti-paladin so much, I think he's stuck in one of the temple of elemental evil's nodes since 1988...)

 

[circuit breaker]

Cleric for buff as fuqq, Ranger for RP reasons

 

[Dodo1610]

Fighter/Kensai
Usually with a greatsword

 

[Trashos]

Mostly Rogue, because of the flexibility (archer, dual wielder, backstabber, trapper, stealth etc)

In theory, I would like to enjoy being a cc/buffer wizard, the in-game brains of the party, the playmaker of the team so to speak. However, I haven't been able to enjoy this concept in practice. Maybe it is because vancian casting is very limiting in how often you can use spells, and in non-vancian it is usually not as efficient as nuking everything.

 

[lukaszek]

deterministic system > RNG

 

[mondblut]

In theory, I would like to enjoy being a cc/buffer wizard, the in-game brains of the party, the playmaker of the team so to speak

so... bard basically?

He did not mention anything about being gay.