Through my years of mmo and rpg gaming I’ve tended to swing between the two extremes of the warrior/wizard dynamic.
Some days I just want to be a dumb tank in full armor soaking up hits and acting as a wall for squishier classes. But then there’s days where I love being a glass cannon that can kill something in 1-2 nukes but a strong breeze can kill me.
The least fun I’ve head with a class was as a healer druid in Everquest. Something so stressful about the party relying on you for heals and if you wipe it’s generally your fault. idk how people dedicate themselves to a class like that.
The proletariat
I generally lean towards classes with more mechanical complexity, so generally casters/status effect types. The gameplay loop needs to sate my ADHD, so if all I’m doing is smacking something with a sword by left clicking I’m quickly going to get bored and drop it.
Paladin because fuck you, you fucking dark fantasy edgelords.
Ngl I figured paladins would be the least popular in this thread, I see them as cops
You bought the edgelord cliche pushed up by the dark and grey fantasy flood https://dnd-5e-homebrew.tumblr.com/post/136812581995/oath-of-the-common-man-paladin-by
My paladin shield is
Roleplaying a hyper religious zealot makes a little more sense at least in universes where gods frequently interact with mortals and grant them magic powers. Maybe you can get your powers from the God of Socialism.
If you stray from the path, you get the Revisionist trait and your God calls you a 
until you finish your redemption quest in front of the rest of your order.
Or something. I’m just shitposting. Paladins are fun to play cuz they’re like less boring fighters that also cast spells.
In a world where magic and gods do provably exist, they would have to have a material reason behind them and as such won’t be excempt from dialectical materialism. It’s not the belief that supernatural don’t exist, it’s that supernatural by definition can’t exist.
Also https://dnd-5e-homebrew.tumblr.com/post/136812581995/oath-of-the-common-man-paladin-by
It’s amazing how much a knight in shining armor can stand out among a bunch of dark cliches.
It’s not even that i do hate all dark fantasy, i like it else i would’t read Glen Cook or the 40k slop (i hate the wh fantasy books for some reason though). It’s i’ve been tired by total takeover of the genre in last 40 years with no signs of any change. Also lack of imagination and “rozmach” (no idea of the word in english, something between momentum and epicness and scale, for example Black Company series have it perfectly balanced) in most books.
I feel the same way; I do enjoy some dark stories sometimes but for fuck’s sake the “this isn’t cookie cutter sunshine and rainbows” pitch is decades stale now. No one told the edgelords that the new “cookie cutter” is grimdark shit.
male human paladin
Yep, whatever let’s me channel my inner-Garen and scream DEMACIA as I call down holy retribution
Meme classes/builds. I don’t know what’s wrong with me. Maybe I’ve just shifted my younger “don’t tell me what to do” perspective into spite for video game developers and their limitations.
I always want to do the most unorthodox thing because I usually don’t vibe well with the pre-defined classes in a lot of games. I’ve quit MMOs because I just don’t like ANY of their classes as a whole package and wish they were more modular. That’s why I loved Ragnarok Online so much and have played those WoW private servers that let you pick abilities from every class.
I’ll dual wield shields in Souls games, make a battle priest in games that try to force them into being healers (Ragnarok). I used heavy armor, a pistol, and a shield in Grim Dawn to essentially be the Terminator. I loved Puppetmaster, one of the least played classes, in FFXI. Blue Mage in FFXIV. Whatever the class was in Final Fantasy Tactics Advance that let you flip a coin to 50/50 kill yourself or an enemy. Tonfas (the worst weapon in the game) in Nioh.
As long as the least played class isn’t that because it’s so unnecessarily complicated (Feral Druid many different times in WoW, etc) I naturally gravitate toward that a lot of the time. But it’s really based on vibes. If I get a cool combination of race and starting armor, I might just go with a concept, like an anti-mage or something.
Edit: I know I was supposed to hit you up to play Ragnarok sometime soon from a previous thread, but I started a Chinese class and got super busy
Edit: I know I was supposed to hit you up to play Ragnarok sometime soon from a previous thread, but I started a Chinese class and got super busy
No worries comrade! I started up another mmo today anyway so maybe later on down the line we can do some RO
Grim dawn was so for letting you choose your own bizarre mashup.
When I was a kid, mages - or whatever hacker type equivalent if it was a scifi or near future ttepg
As an adult, gimme a big club to bonk enemies with.
I’ve always been the sneaky rogue type, but I haven’t played as many TTRPGs as I’d like. And I just can’t get into most video game RPGs, but my Skyrim character is always a stealth archer with a side of magic like everybody else’s Skyrim character is.
Tank.
I’ve always found DPS meter-chasing to be obnoxious and toxic; as long as it isn’t a very slow fight or sets off some kind of enrage timer, I’d rather have damage dealers that don’t stand in damage zones over meter-chasers that scream slurs at less enthusiastic meter-chasers.
Also, I like fighting enemies in RPGs head on rather than punching their
I usually enjoy tanks, but I am also hopelessly drawn to mechanically unusual stuff
The most fun I’ve had in a tabletop game was when I played an investigator in Pathfinder
I knocked out a bunch of dudes with my sap, broke down the big bad with a detailed psychological analysis and proved a bunch of goblins didn’t burn down a warehouse by noticing the real culprit rode a horse (Pathfinder goblins are terrified of horses)
Big
energy.For our next game, I already have my Minotaur investigator all started out
I’m gonna see how long it takes them to realize the name on the sheet is Cow-lumbo
I tend to pick weirdo outsider classes, but also in ttrpg parties tend to slot in around other players.
I find whichever class can smash the ground and make spikes come up. Sometimes it’s a caster, sometimes it’s a tank.
Kingdoms of Amalur had a cool version locked in the warrior path and I’m still mad about it.
I love me some magic. If I’m not doing cool Dragon Ball like energy blasts I’m not interested.
But rn I’m playing oblivion where I find it kind of hard to brute force with mage, so I just use some supplementary spells as a nightblade.
Wizard, wizard, and wizard. Sometimes I’ll be a warrior, then I’ll immediately give up and and be a wizard.
always a sneaky/rogue type
Big strong fat guys, I think I kind of just have a type ngl
Whichever one lets me run directly at the enemy and punch things the hardest. Fighter, barbarian, whatever
I like anything with poison access. Watching the health tick away while I buy for time is satisfying.
