now I've made many a character over the years and want to know what everyone's favourite race class combo. what do you build into your char for rp or do you min max. feel free to post char links here
I prefer "monstrous" races dragonborn, lizardfolk, goliath etc. Typically play martial characters and more often than not multi-class. I have a strong dislike for playing wizards, rangers, humans, elves, and dwarves.
Call me pedestrian, but I generally prefer playing humans or half-elves. It's partially because I like low fantasy fiction in general, where non-human sentient beings are rare and/or not translatable to a player character (demons, old-school fey creatures, etc); it's also partially because most of the other systems I play in are human-PCs-only (d20 Modern, 7th Sea, Sidewinder, Legend of the Five Rings) so it's kinda become habit.
I like half-elves, though, because I enjoy exploring the liminal spaces between categories: I like characters who are neither human nor elf, neither male nor female, neither gay nor straight, neither human nor animal (meaning I also liked playing shifters in 4E). The journey of figuring out where the boundaries between categories actually are - or collapsing those boundaries altogether - is very appealing to me.
For classes, I tend towards "face" roles because I really enjoy the social interaction aspect of DnD. Skill monkeys and casters are also roles I tend towards. So bards and rogues, a lot of the time, and also paladins. I've played every class at least once, though, except for clerics and barbarians.
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now I've made many a character over the years and want to know what everyone's favourite race class combo. what do you build into your char for rp or do you min max. feel free to post char links here
I prefer "monstrous" races dragonborn, lizardfolk, goliath etc. Typically play martial characters and more often than not multi-class. I have a strong dislike for playing wizards, rangers, humans, elves, and dwarves.
Call me pedestrian, but I generally prefer playing humans or half-elves. It's partially because I like low fantasy fiction in general, where non-human sentient beings are rare and/or not translatable to a player character (demons, old-school fey creatures, etc); it's also partially because most of the other systems I play in are human-PCs-only (d20 Modern, 7th Sea, Sidewinder, Legend of the Five Rings) so it's kinda become habit.
I like half-elves, though, because I enjoy exploring the liminal spaces between categories: I like characters who are neither human nor elf, neither male nor female, neither gay nor straight, neither human nor animal (meaning I also liked playing shifters in 4E). The journey of figuring out where the boundaries between categories actually are - or collapsing those boundaries altogether - is very appealing to me.
For classes, I tend towards "face" roles because I really enjoy the social interaction aspect of DnD. Skill monkeys and casters are also roles I tend towards. So bards and rogues, a lot of the time, and also paladins. I've played every class at least once, though, except for clerics and barbarians.
"We're the perfect combination of expendable and unkillable!"