Hey, in an attempt to foster more discussion and to try and get this community growing, I am writing a discussion post to get ideas out. (While these conversations have happened elsewhere, we haven’t had them on Lemmy yet!)
As such what is your favorite DnD class? If possible, share any reasons why, and cool stories that help highlight your point.
Also as an added bonus I personally would love to hear about your favorite homebrew class. So if you got one feel free to share as well.
Bard without stereotypes. Because I love the roleplaying aspect of the game. And I can pretty much help my friends easily
Monk. I have a long standing love for monks.
Fighter. I know its vanilla. I just enjoy not having to deal with spell mechanics. Also I’m able to make my characters unique enough with role playing.
I’m a sucker for gish characters, but also kind of bored with the 5e options. I tend to blend a martial and a caster. Right now I’m running shadow monk and blade singer, loving it so far.
Dwarf cleric, because I’m a tallish Atheist. Also you get to smite people.
I’ve been my friend’s group DM for most of my D&D career; so I don’t get to play characters too often. When I do I usually gravitate to Cleric. In 3.5 I liked doing clerics that raised zombies! Cleric is definitely my favorite!
Mostly been trying different Cleric subclasses. Grave life etc.
So far grave has been my go to, but I’ve been itching to try war cleric soon…
Cleric. I love being able to keep a party alive, and still helpimn direct combat.
My favorite is playing a shadow monk. It’s so much fun in darkened combat to run up, get like 50 hits in, then just shadow step out of range and let your tank soak damage. Druid is alright, but I feel it’s better when I really want to RP my PC rather than min-max.
While it used to be arcane trickster rogue, I recently played a Paladin and was amazed by the power of smite.
I love sorcerers! Sorcery points make things flexible and fun.
I’ve always loved Rangers. Mechanically they have good skills, some spells, and they can be built into great range or melee fighters depending on how the story goes. Stylistically, a woodsy loner is just fun to play. It was great to see 5e altered some of their awful class features to make them playable again.
I love playing a bard - it allows me to excel in social and stealth situations, gives a lot of utility magic and their overall versatility is really appealing.
I also like multiclassing bard with warlock to get a little combat oomph with eldritch blast and invocations!
Even though they can be a bit one dimensional, I love playing a barbarian. The ridiculous stuff you can get away with with a high strength is just too silly to pass up.
I’m a big fan of sorcerers; it gives me a nice balance of having fun spells to use while not having to manage which ones I’ve “prepared.” My first character was a half elf draconic bloodline sorcerer, and I had a ton of fun playing him.
