Poll: D&D

[UAProxy]

I've been playing since AD&D/2e was still the primary ruleset. I've played almost every alignment and class over the years, but I have five characters that I've used and enjoyed persistently over the course of my career:

Aniya Naviara, CG Elven Sorcerer (changed to Wizard in 4e)- More or less a wizard with the cunning of a rogue and the attitude of a kender (minus the megalomania). She's always been a blast to work with.

Jeran Lupere, LG Human Paladin- Just a pally, nothing to say here. He's particularly fun to use in campaigns that take place over a long period of time, having him start out as an innocent young initiate and letting the terrors he faces and the harsh reality of the corruption in his order slowly warp him into a different breed of creature altogether.

'Fang', NG Gnoll Ranger- One of my personal favorites and a lot of fun to play, he's an outcast from the usual savagery of gnolls. Mainly fun because of all the rough treatment he gets from civilized townsfolk for being a "vile savage".

Bishop Carolan, NG/NE Human Bard/Necromancer (changed to Bard/Darklock in 4e)- Now this one was fun. Basically the result of a Salem spinoff (boy meets girl, boy falls in love with girl, girl turns out to be a witch, girl gets killed, boy allows a powerful shadow entity to use his body as a host in order to exact revenge, boy levels hometown). Roleplay-wise he's two characters at once. Let's just say that the shadow-wielding part of him is none too friendly.

There was also a NG scion whose name escapes me. He was just a kid that could kill things with his mind. He was fun.

"Also? I can kill you with my brain."

 

[Lemon Of Life]

Don't play D n D, helped my cousin make a story (and an awesome nerdy map) but that's bout it. If I did play, Ranger obv - they're badass.

 

[Allan53]

My other character is a level 5 Fighter/Rogue slightly inspired by Ezio of Assassin's Creed 2. I even worked with the DM to craft a special hidden blade! Now if only I can find a supplement that allows you to be a Chaotic Good assassin, I'd be set.

Much though I hate to reccomend it, the Book of Exalted Deeds supplement has a class like that.

Of course, I call that book the Book of Radient Hypocrisy, since it basically takes all the things previously classified as irretrievably evil, changes the name, and says "Ok, these are good now!". Poisons, diseases, even using Bluff checks (although they weren't evil, they were considered dangerous).

 

[OctoBush]

Other(hurayy,custom class),Chaotic Neutral

We always messed around, doing things in the most difficult way possible,trying to kill off the guy who wouldn't heal us and eated all the shinies.
Man, I wish I could play this again, but it's too much bother for him...
Probably cause I ate all the food.

 

[Allan53]

Why would anyone want to stick with just one class?

Because not all of us get off on abusing the multiclass system to overpower our characters?

That depends on how you multiclass. If you stick with the core stuff, multiclassing is more inefficient then gamebreaking. If, however, you start going stuff like Swordsage (Tome of Battle), then yes, you tend to be somewhat overpowered.

Which is why I have an inconsistent relationship with splat books. They can be great for character concepts, and SOME things they have are good, but a lot of them are terribly gamebreaking, or just plain useless. I submit for your consideration: the Rage Mage, or the Frenzied Berzerker.

 

[Amnestic]

Why would anyone want to stick with just one class?

Because not all of us get off on abusing the multiclass system to overpower our characters?

That depends on how you multiclass. If you stick with the core stuff, multiclassing is more inefficient then gamebreaking. If, however, you start going stuff like Swordsage (Tome of Battle), then yes, you tend to be somewhat overpowered.

Which is why I have an inconsistent relationship with splat books. They can be great for character concepts, and SOME things they have are good, but a lot of them are terribly gamebreaking, or just plain useless. I submit for your consideration: the Rage Mage, or the Frenzied Berzerker.

I have no idea what a Rage Mage is. I can probably guess what a Frenzied Berserker is like though.

Why would anyone want to stick with just one class?

Because not all of us get off on abusing the multiclass system to overpower our characters?

You don't have to multiclass, why not just a make a new character if the old one dies.

Eh, fair point. I was only talking about my latest character. I just assumed other people did the same.

I should try my hand at a Bard at some point.

 

[kannibus]

No option for the fighter? Well, okay...

As can be extrapolated from the above line of dialogue, I prefer to play as a fighter and neutral good at that. All the other classes are simply too complicated for my pre-Neanderthal brain. Yet I refuse to go the "dumb fighter" cliche as well so having a bit of INT and WIS is often the way I set up my character. Besides, I mostly play to relax and what can be more relaxing that eviscerating cute little kobolds with a +5 greatsword on a critical hit?

As described by my DM once:

"The kobold's head explodes in a spray of blood, bone and brain matter as your sword tears through it and then continues down along its spine. Death spasms wrench its arms out of its sockets and organs now resembling plate of REALLY bad spaghetti are ripped from the corpse. Completely eviscerated, both halves of the kobold fall to the floor of the cave where blood, bile and excrement mingle with each other. The thing which is barely recognizable twitches every now and then causing rivulets of blood to trickle down its mangled flesh."

Now THAT was epic.

 

[Lunar Shadow]

Well admittedly I'm currentply playing my first ever campaign, but I'm a Gnome Wizard, Neutral Good, and I am loving it. At first I was completely useless, since Cantrips do pretty much nothing in battle (though they were slightly helpful in conversation). But once I started getting some other spells, I became pretty hardcore. I really enjoy it.

I'm considering casting Enlarge Person on myself, followed by a permanency spell so I can be a 6-foot tall gnome. Just 'cause that would be awesome.

Don't underestimate cantrips!

You are in a dark building with no lights.
You have ogres in the next room.
Your team all has darkvision.
You tell your team to close their eyes and cast light in the next room.
dispell the light and your team charges.

You just blinded an entire room of ogres because their darkvision will not come back into effect for another few minutes.

You sound like me>_>

I don't haave a particular class or race, but I do tend to make Chaotic Neutral charahcters that are usually hyper prepared to the point of breaking the DM's encounters to tiny tiny pieces. Which is why I hate being stuck in a extra-dimensional prison with limited resources. *Goes off grumbling about literally losing their only crowbar to Cthulhu*

Wait...what?

Crowbar?

Cuthulu?

If nothing else, please PM me and explain!

We were trying to pry open an extradimensional door into the Far Realms. We almost succeeded (the check was high enougn due to aiding and a very high initial roll) but our crowbar started sprouting tentacles and became useless. We ended up squishing it.

Crowbar...sprouting tentacles.

Was it turning into a mini cuthulu?

You didn't think, "Awe! Cute!" and keep it as a pet?

...

Wait, let me go back to the beginning...

Why in the hell was your crowbar spawning tentacles?

Far Realms pretty much is Cthulhu territory. Instead of letting us escape by opening said doorway to teh Far Realms, DM decided that the influence of it warped reality on anything it gets near (Ie: mutations ins living creatures) and it mutated the crowbar so that the DM didn't have her campaign broken.

 

[skitzo van]

Rogue, anything evil.

 

[Slycne]

In my current campaign(Basic/Expert ed) - Lawful Magic-user. He started off Neutral, but he made a conversion to Lawful when he got raised from the dead after being blasted with a fireball.

My usually modus operandi though is Lawful Evil <-> Chaotic Good Rogue.

 

[zen5887]

What does everyone think of the Book of Nine Swords, or more like Book of Broken Swords?

I was reading through it yesterday, and the character ideas (story wise) sound awesome! Game wise though I think they are way overpowered. It takes the skill out of making a good character, makes it all to easy.

 

[DracoSuave]

What does everyone think of the Book of Nine Swords, or more like Book of Broken Swords?

I was reading through it yesterday, and the character ideas (story wise) sound awesome! Game wise though I think they are way overpowered. It takes the skill out of making a good character, makes it all to easy.

If by overpowered, you mean 'balanced with respects to wizards and CoDzilla' then you'd be correct.

Compared to the non-spellcasting classes, yeah, it was powerful... but compared to spellcasting classes, it's actually well balanced.

That only proves the imbalance of non-spellcasters.

 

[Cmwissy]

Rogue; Chaotic Neutral; Although going towards the greater good/what suits my gold.


I go for the Dark hood and Longsword look.

Very much like my profile picture of Ezio.

I have a massive fit whenever someone associates Thieves/Assassins/Rogues with daggers; Mainly as I played thief the dark project as my first stealth game and fell in love with the longsword/blackjack.

It was a damn shame when I started AoC that assassin's were limited to Daggers; but then the barbarian caught my eye;

The barbarian is actually more stealth then combat aligned; much to my surprise.


Stealth+Axes = the Axsassin.

 

[Georgeman]

I am the Neutral DM. No, not True Neutral, but Neutral-insert alignment or insert alignment-Neutral. Depends entirely on my mood and/or whether the players act like dicks.

Secretly, I am longing for the days that I can play a True Neutral Wizard, a Lawful Good/Neutral Monk or a Neutral Good Cleric again. But, probably, it'll never happen. :'(

 

[annoyinglizardvoice]

3.5, preferably fighter, but I'll use rogue or barbarian now and again. Never bother with alignment (never seen it actually help a game). If the DM lets me I'll play lizardfolk.
I normally prefer to DM and play Demon Hunter though.

 

[dietpeachsnapple]

Well admittedly I'm currentply playing my first ever campaign, but I'm a Gnome Wizard, Neutral Good, and I am loving it. At first I was completely useless, since Cantrips do pretty much nothing in battle (though they were slightly helpful in conversation). But once I started getting some other spells, I became pretty hardcore. I really enjoy it.

I'm considering casting Enlarge Person on myself, followed by a permanency spell so I can be a 6-foot tall gnome. Just 'cause that would be awesome.

Don't underestimate cantrips!

You are in a dark building with no lights.
You have ogres in the next room.
Your team all has darkvision.
You tell your team to close their eyes and cast light in the next room.
dispell the light and your team charges.

You just blinded an entire room of ogres because their darkvision will not come back into effect for another few minutes.

You sound like me>_>

I don't haave a particular class or race, but I do tend to make Chaotic Neutral charahcters that are usually hyper prepared to the point of breaking the DM's encounters to tiny tiny pieces. Which is why I hate being stuck in a extra-dimensional prison with limited resources. *Goes off grumbling about literally losing their only crowbar to Cthulhu*

Wait...what?

Crowbar?

Cuthulu?

If nothing else, please PM me and explain!

We were trying to pry open an extradimensional door into the Far Realms. We almost succeeded (the check was high enougn due to aiding and a very high initial roll) but our crowbar started sprouting tentacles and became useless. We ended up squishing it.

Crowbar...sprouting tentacles.

Was it turning into a mini cuthulu?

You didn't think, "Awe! Cute!" and keep it as a pet?

...

Wait, let me go back to the beginning...

Why in the hell was your crowbar spawning tentacles?

Far Realms pretty much is Cthulhu territory. Instead of letting us escape by opening said doorway to teh Far Realms, DM decided that the influence of it warped reality on anything it gets near (Ie: mutations ins living creatures) and it mutated the crowbar so that the DM didn't have her campaign broken.

0.0 What were you trying to escape from that would drive you INTO the far realms? Wait, the prison? HAHA! Um... what was the "real" method of escape? And if the door wasn't it, why did she include it? Just to tempt you?

 

[JaredXE]

How does that work exactly? Darkvision isn't an ability with a timer or something, it doesn't need to be "warmed up". Light goes on, ogres turn lose/turn-off darkvision, light goes off, darkvision springs back on.

I was wondering the same thing. My understanding of the rules concerning darkvision is that it's merely an on/off thing at will. I'll admit that doesn't necessarily make a whole lot of sense from a real world standpoint, but it's D&D we're talking about. I might rule that it can be temporarily blinded by a quick transition from darkness to daylight, but that would only last for a few moments.

Yeah, as a DM I would rule that they are blinded for one round, with all the penalties inherent with it. The players would possibly get a surprise round unless the ogres get a fantastic save or something. Now, if it was orcs or drow, they get that whole dazed thing in addition to the blindness.

 

[Drake the Dragonheart]

My favorite D&D memory has to be of my Lawful Good Aasimir Sorcerer. So at level 1 I joined my friends whose characters were both in the range of level 10-12 (yeah my DM was an arse about that) So eventually I got up to around level 4 or 5, and we were fighting a frost giant in it's lair. It backhanded one of them with it's axe for 50 subdual. One guy had his brain jarred, and the other was simply cut in half, so it was up to my low level sorcerer and I just barely did enough damage to knock him out with, of all things, magic missile. Yes, I killed a frost giant with Magic Missile. Remember kids, Magic Missile kills! Guns don't kill people, magic missiles do!

But I generally play and enjoy a wide variety of classes, I think I have played all of the PHB 1 classes at some point or another. Usually I play any good aligned. I guess it is just a natural tendency of mine. I often play spellcasters, specifically sorcerer, as usually no one else goes for magic classes. I had some good fun as a Chaotic Good gnome bard. I really like the warmage class from the Complete Arcane.

 

[Lunar Shadow]

Well admittedly I'm currentply playing my first ever campaign, but I'm a Gnome Wizard, Neutral Good, and I am loving it. At first I was completely useless, since Cantrips do pretty much nothing in battle (though they were slightly helpful in conversation). But once I started getting some other spells, I became pretty hardcore. I really enjoy it.

I'm considering casting Enlarge Person on myself, followed by a permanency spell so I can be a 6-foot tall gnome. Just 'cause that would be awesome.

Don't underestimate cantrips!

You are in a dark building with no lights.
You have ogres in the next room.
Your team all has darkvision.
You tell your team to close their eyes and cast light in the next room.
dispell the light and your team charges.

You just blinded an entire room of ogres because their darkvision will not come back into effect for another few minutes.

You sound like me>_>

I don't haave a particular class or race, but I do tend to make Chaotic Neutral charahcters that are usually hyper prepared to the point of breaking the DM's encounters to tiny tiny pieces. Which is why I hate being stuck in a extra-dimensional prison with limited resources. *Goes off grumbling about literally losing their only crowbar to Cthulhu*

Wait...what?

Crowbar?

Cuthulu?

If nothing else, please PM me and explain!

We were trying to pry open an extradimensional door into the Far Realms. We almost succeeded (the check was high enougn due to aiding and a very high initial roll) but our crowbar started sprouting tentacles and became useless. We ended up squishing it.

Crowbar...sprouting tentacles.

Was it turning into a mini cuthulu?

You didn't think, "Awe! Cute!" and keep it as a pet?

...

Wait, let me go back to the beginning...

Why in the hell was your crowbar spawning tentacles?

Far Realms pretty much is Cthulhu territory. Instead of letting us escape by opening said doorway to teh Far Realms, DM decided that the influence of it warped reality on anything it gets near (Ie: mutations ins living creatures) and it mutated the crowbar so that the DM didn't have her campaign broken.

0.0 What were you trying to escape from that would drive you INTO the far realms? Wait, the prison? HAHA! Um... what was the "real" method of escape? And if the door wasn't it, why did she include it? Just to tempt you?

We are stuck in an extradimensional prison, and we have to get 3 shards of the guy who it was made ot imprison's soul. The doorway was a teleporter, you just walked into it and it ported you to a different part of the prison. We tried to bypass the rest and just GTFO cause we were tired of all the back tracking.

Edit: TO tell the truth, she should have expected it once O joined the group, cause i have a tendency to try and take the least complicated route towards our objective.

 

[L3m0n_L1m3]

I play a fighter/warblade, chaotic good of course.

Told a cultist I would feed her to a werewolf if she didn't cooperate. Guess that's where the "chaotic" part comes in....