What's Your Favourite Class?

[Bartmanhomer]

My favourite class is wizard because it so darn powerful. What's your favourite class?

[Kelb_Panthera]

Oof. That's just about a question, man.

Gun to my head, I'd have to say either paladin or fighter.

For paladin, I love the flavor of it. The gods-blessed knight errant in shining armor thing has great appeal and the class' mechanics are solid. Gonna go prestige for near certain though. RKV, Fist of Raziel, Greyguard, et al change the flavor and mechanics in entertaining ways while still keeping the core of the class intact. If I'm in the right sort of mood though, the fallen paladin blackguard is entertaining in its own sort of way.

On the other hand, I love the sheer variety of things you can do with a fighter. It's one of the only classes I give any serious consideration to actually single-classing all the way through, though I'll usually still dip here and there for things unless I've decided on a weapon supremacy build.

That said, I -like- most of the warrior classes for one major element or other; the monk's unarmed strike is a unique weapon you can do some crazy stuff with, the soulknife has a certain mystique and leads to soulbow, barbarian's rage can be built on into a thing of near deific strength, etc and so on.

I like casters too but they just don't have the same feel. They're still great but just not as much fun as trying to make something whacky that whacks things.

Skirmishers are tough for me. I can do a passable job with the esoteric ones like incarnate and warlock but a rogue or a scout is a rough ride for me.

[Afghanistan]

Archivist. I like the idea of playing a class with the capability of, at 5th level, being able to rebuild civilization from scratch. The restrictive spell list leaves a lot of room for adventuring.

I could imagine an entire questline for an Archivist being just finding a scroll of Plant Growth to increase food yield to trigger a green revolution.

[Railak]

Cleric, it was the first class I ever played as. The class also does my favorite role as well, better than most other classes, heal tank.

[SangoProduction]

Incanter, from Spheres of Power, use of Spheres of Power and for its versatility, without the overbearing (or barren, in some cases) spell lists of core casters.

[Reathin]

My absolute favorite class would likely be Wizard. Not only does it mechanically provide me with a role (or roles) to which I enjoy playing, the general flavor of it, the "Magic Scientist", synches up so nicely. All the trappings of it, the books, staves, robes and scroll, and the idea of knowledge being power in a particularly direct (and indirect! All those Int points lead to good skill potential) fashion? Yeah, love me some wizards. And there are a ton of interesting prestige classes to help narrow down one's focus without sacrificing casting power.

Outside of Wizards, I'm also fond of Warlocks in certain forms (Eldritch Pacts has a lot of flavor potential and many of the old 3.5 invocations were amazing due to being At Will. And 5th edition gave them a tone of bonus flavor by giving much more consideration to the types of Pacts one can be a part of).

Outside of Casters in general, I'm also very fond of Monks. I know there are many (perfectly legitimate) gripes about their overall power, but "pseudo-mystic power from martial arts" really jives for me in similar fashion to Wizards. Power from understanding, acceptance and awareness. Their ki-abilities help make them feel "more" than purely physical characters (in many games, I have an almost pathological inability to play anything without SOME sort of supernatural or transhuman potential, if it's available. Non-sirens from borderlands, non-mages in Dragon Age, that sort of thing...Every time I try, I get pulled back to the magic).

DnD doesn't really have a natural archetype for it, but the other non-magic fighting type character that I love is the Final Fantasy Dragoon. Hyper jumps and spear attacks are great! Although I DO actually have a prototypical Warblade build that seems to do a decent job of it, even excel thanks to a magic item or two.

[Thurbane]

Beguiler is up there for me. I like the mix of casting and skill-monkeying. I also like not having to track spells know or spells in a book; and the Int-based casting is just icing on the cake.

...now all I need to do is find a DM willing to let me play one. Most of the DMs in my group besides me usually run core-only games.

[Maat Mons]

I'm going to have to give it to Psion. It works the way that I think a caster should work. ... Well sort of like the way a caster should work. ... A lot closer than Vancian casting, anyway.

[pabelfly]

I actually like Truenamer. I like high INT characters, and characters that can be skillmonkeys and the party knowledge bank. Its also a class i can do some serious minmaxing on without worrying about overshadowing the rest of the party while still getting casting abilities for a variety of options in and out of combat.

[Falontani]

That is ridiculously hard.

Death Master, cleric, and Warlock have the same problem of requiring a source for their power, one that can be upset.

Wizard isn't focused enough for me. Sure you can really set a focus, but doing that is knowing you can't meet your full potential with your class.

Sorcerer is too limited to do what I want to.

Artificer is plenty focused, but still has the problem of sky's the limit.

So I guess my top pick. It's gotta be... Dread Necromancer. The only class that can be an effective necromancer without having your power loaned to you or having so much potential as to be limited by choosing to specialize in necromancy.

A class that can minionmance as well the best, while not being restricted to it.

[soullos]

I'm a big fan of gishes so I immediately gravitated to the Duskblade. Psychic Warrior is also a close second being a psionic gish if you will.

Honorable mention: the Binder. Extremely versatile and the roleplaying potential is through the roof. :D

[weckar]

Gotta be the Warlock. At least a couple levels make it into just about every build I do. They always have an answer to a situation (even though it is rarely the ideal answer), without being--in my opinion--as pigeonholed as bards are.

[ZamielVanWeber]

I prefer gishes and theurges, but I prefer to build my own most of the time, so cleric, duskblade, the martial adepts, binder, shadowcaster. Quite a few options for the list goes on. Easier to think of classes I really don't like.

[Kurald Galain]

Magus, in case that wasn't obvious.

[Aniikinis]

This is hard for me, but not terribly so. I love the bard class for what it is, what it does, and it's what I'd aspire to be in a dnd world. It's also what I'm compared to most often by friends, so there's that too. But Warlock and dread necromancer have some amazing ideas behind them and with the right choices or character motives can completely screw things up for enemies (and the party but that doesn't count).

[nedz]

I tend to build concept characters so Class is of a secondary importance. Also I rarely stick to one class in a build. I like skill based characters, but not all games support these well, also, casters.

[Quentinas]

My first character was a duskblade and i very like that class, recently i found that i like the shadowcaster because it is not so powerful to overshadow the other and it is interesting to play as class, other than that is a challenge
I like even the truenamer (but never played one for now) basically for the same motivation because i know if i would play a wizard or a cleric i would put too much cheese and the other would not have fun .

[Komatik]

Druid, Beguiler. As a mechanical thing, add Death Master to the list. Thematic casters are my jam.

[zfs]

Mechanically? Druid. When I'm powerful enough, I can be anyone and anything. I control major weather events that people used to ascribe to the Gods themselves. Think you can hide something from me? My friends are the birds and mice, your warhorses and your hunting dogs. I have ears and eyes everywhere.

Pure Flavor? Binder. I willingly become a vessel to things that should not exist in any way yet somehow do - denizens of a place that is not a place. To me that makes them cooler than other classes that channel outside beings, because vestiges are these impossible liminal things.

[stack]

Well, no limits on choices, so prodigy (spheres of power/might). You can do anything with it.

I may be biased, slightly.

[Efrate]

Binder in 3.5. Tons of flavor and one of the few classes that you can stay 20 levels in and keep getting rewarded.

For pathfinder, harbinger and vizier. The explicit way the harbinger ignores all immunities so it can do thing that scares undead or burn a red dragon to death with normal fire with no hoops or weird rules or anything. It has everything it needs in it's class with no need for anything outside to be fully functional at all levels of play.

Vizier because it's the closest you can get to be Ang from avatar the last airbender, and it adapts to whatever it needs as needed which is fine. It's also another class you want 20 levels in and it gets rewarded.

I like the design of a 1 to 20 class that does it's job well and keeps rewarding you for staying. Where prc and multiclassing hurt more than help in almost all situations.

[FaerieGodfather]

The very first AD&D character I ever played was an Elven Monk. (Rules? What rules?) He was the first and last single-class character I will ever play in any version of D&D.

Favorite classes are Soulknife, Monk, Bard, Druid, Witch.

[HeraldOfExius]

Probably the Vigilante in Pathfinder. It has plenty of options to tinker with from a mechanical perspective, and it's designed to have a significant RP element as well.

[Mike Miller]

I don't have a favorite class (ever-DM) but I am partial to arcane casters.

[Vaern]

I generally like any charisma based class, usually bards but sometimes sorcerer, as proper application of social skills like diplomacy allows me to completely derail and hijack campaigns.

[Kesnit]

Psion and Swordsage.

I like how you can focus on different things based on the powers / maneuvers you pick. (Psion more than SS, but both have flexibility.)

[Eldonauran]

My favorite class? Hmm...

I have a lot of classes that I really like. Mostly because I like the idea of picking abilities from different areas and making them work for me on a single chassis. To that end, I love the archetypes and variant abilities that Pathfinder 1E allows.

Keeping all that in mind, I choose..... the Skald. Pretty much the most self-sufficient class from start to finish.

[Celestia]

Warlock. All the coolness and charm of a wizard with none of the annoying bookkeeping. Plus, I'm an edgy loser b*tch, so I like the fluff, too.

[Hunter Noventa]

My absolute favorites to play have been Warlock, PF Magus and Spheres of Might Technician.

Warlocks are just plain fun and easy.

The Magus rocks your socks off.

The Technician might be fiddly, but being able to build an airship and attack drones and having a railgun was way too much fun.

I really want to try a lot of the other Sphere classes like Scholar, Blacksmith, Armorist, Hedgewitch...

[Quertus]

Wizard. The idea of the magical scholar, searching through the ruins of past civilizations for scraps of Arcane knowledge, really appeals to me. That, and being able to develop your own custom solutions, and name them after yourself, watch your legacy get passed on? Good times.

However, since this is a 3e thread, and the 3e Wizard really isn't… that… any more, I suppose I'll go with… Illithid Savant. One of my all-time favorite characters was a psychic vampire (in a homebrew system) who could simply grab memories and skills from others. He even gained spell casting at one point! I was functionally playing an Illithid Savant about a decade before they were published. So, when I saw the class, I immediately felt a connection.