Whats your favorite standard fantasy class?

[Bloodeyes]

Cleric. I like to put more STR than WIS because I like hitting stuff but also healing and casting buffs. Paladins are cool too, and a bit more powerful than playing a Cleric like this. But this is more flexible from a roleplay perspective. You don't have to be LG, can pick whatever deity you want. I like being a neutral aligned human devotee of a non-demonic evil deity, in it for the power only. That way I get the aesthetic of the bad guy without having to actually roleplay as evil. Can be an antihero that ultimately ends up on the right side of history, albeit for his own reasons.

 

[Kleptocratic debt serf]

Ever since reading some of Howard's Conan the Cimmerian I have been a Barbarian at heart.

 

[Catacombs]

Fighter/Paladin when I want to hit stuff up close; Ranger when I want to hit stuff from a distance; Rogue when I'm feeling sneaky; Mage when I want to use spells for everything. It also depends on the party and game. I have wanted to play a cleric but haven't had the chance (yet).

 

[Dodo1610]

Saying that 3.5 classes are the standard for western fantasy should be a bannable offense.

 

[Vladimuar]

11 paladins in this thread make me uncomfortable.

 

[Lyric Suite]

Paladin or cleric.

Monks are the worst. Doesn't fit the theme and it's already enough of a stretch that you can kill some of the creatures in the game with a sword let alone by punching them in the face. Imagine tryting to kick a dragon in the shins. At least pinning them with arrows has a precedent in fantasy lore.

 

[Reinhardt]

Fighter. You are getting visibly stronger with each level and can use almost every piece of loot.

 

[Spacer's Nugget]

Crew slut

 

[Rahdulan]

Ranger, but I'm also of firm belief that making it one of the standard classes was a mistake because a Ranger needs some sort of wilderness exploration game to really shine. Nature knowledge, Animal Handling and Survival honestly have fuck all general use beyond niche situations. Favorite Enemy was a kind of band-aid to add potential use while, going by 5E, Natural Explorer is basically the same thing except for environment and how well you navigate it.

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

Ranger-Chronomancers of course....

 

[Decado]

Paladin. Obviously.

 

[Tavernking]

I went from Lawful Good Paladin to Netural Good Fighter because the roleplay was so much better. Smiting evil at every opportunity gets so tedious...

 

[Trithne]

Paging Meredoth to come vote for wizard.

 

[Lonely Vazdru]

If I had to actually live in a D&D world, I'd go for bard. Music, taverns, booze and women, what's not to like ? But when playing D&D then cleric all the way.
Buff, kill, heal... efficiency FTW !

 

[Lambach]

Hey, V_K , go read a book or something, nerd.

 

[V_K]

Sorcerer isn't really a standard class - the Sorcerer/Wizard distinction doesn't make sense outside of DnD.
On the other hand, the list is missing Shaman/Summoner kind of caster.
Voting for Druid because shapeshifting, but tying shapeshifting to divine nature-based magic is also a very DnD-specific thing that doesn't really translate beyond that context.

 

[Sykar]

A Sorc, because slinging spells is awesome, but it's better to be a high-CHA, pussy-slaying CHAd than some pencil-necked geek while doing it.

Who needs CHA when you can cast just Dominate Person.

 

[<3sRichardSimmons]

Depends if we’re talking crpg or pnp.

In pnp I most often played Bards or Rangers because they offer fun role-playing and out-of-combat opportunities.

In crpgs I tend to play clerics or multi-classed wizards because they’re OP.

 

[0sacred]

it was a draw between Paladin and Ranger, but I went with Ranger.

Wilderness survival is one of the funnest things to do if a game supports it.

 

[Jack Of Owls]

Druid, especially in D&D-based cRPGs. Just like the idea of working that class and eventually getting my dragonshape on (or pissed off minotaur with a Labrys) at will. I even killed a fearsome end-game boss in a well-known NWN module with just a small acid wyrmling once. Just two or three corrosive green puffs and I blew his house down.

 

[Old Hans]

These days it's the Rogue. I have a soft spot for those burglar types like that Bilbo Biggins character in the lord of the hobbits movie

 

[Goldschmidt]

Marauder, the one and only!

 

[fantadomat]

 

[fantadomat]

lol nobody likes warlock

 

[KörangarTheMighty]

clerics already fill this archetype

As opposed to the vast archetypal difference between Mage and Mage who doesn't read good? Or Fighter and angrier Fighter?
That ship has sailed but Monks need not have divine magic that would step on a Cleric's toes anyway.