What class are you.
OneAngryMushroom
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You find yourself as an adventurer in the DnD world. Based on your skills, previous job experience, and other abilities, what class would you be? For example I'd be a ranger because I've worked at an animal shelter for a few years, and as a park ranger for a few summers as well I also enjoy camping and the like.
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http://paizo.com/PRD/nPCClasses.html
A couple of skill points in swimming and dancing, and a couple more in speak language, but the rest would go to math and physics.
But there's also the skill of knowledge, and of trying to influence people with words of my mouth, so I'd vote for Bard as most befitting what I'm like IRL. Though there's alas more than a hint of Painbearer of Ilmater as well, carrying the sufferings of this world mentally. Maybe in edition 3.5 they can be multi-classed together? (I'm only really familiar with BG classes). It would start with levels of Painbearer early in life, but some bardic skills later on.
I am only approached when someone needs something from me.
Been playing the guitar since I was a boy (music), I work as a history teacher and tour guide (lore, charisma), I get bored easily thus try and be good at everything - sports, martial arts, painting, programming, writing, music, archery, etc etc (Jack of all trades - master of none).
I hate it, but I am a bloody bard. Sigh.
If asked to go on quests and battle monsters, my only condition is that they be creatures from this list
http://www.headinjurytheater.com/article73.htm
"They may be called the Palace Guard, the City Guard, or the Patrol. Whatever the name, their purpose in any work of heroic fantasy is identical: it is, round about Chapter Three (or ten minutes into the film) to rush into the room, attack the hero one at a time, and be slaughtered. No one ever asks them if they wanted to." -Terry Pratchett
I think of the scientists and engineers of real life as our society's mages and sorcerers. Chemistry, physics, advanced mathematics, computer programming, technological development and infrastructure, electrical engineering, and dozens of other related fields - this is the "arcane magic" of real life. (To really get a sense of this, take a good look at some formulae or plans from one of these fields in which you have no training - chemical formulae for non-chemists, a black board full of mathematical formulae written by a theoretical physicist for non-physicists, an engineering schematic for a non-engineer, or even an ancient cryptographic text for a non-archaeologist - it all might as well be arcane "magic" writing for spells, as far as the sense it makes to a non-initiate.
Our priests and psychologists, of course, but even more so our doctors and nurses, are our clerics.
Our soldiers, police, firefighters, athletes, and trainers, are our fighters.
Our environmentalists and outdoorsmen are our rangers. You can actually get a job as a real-life "ranger" in a national park or forest.
I think of druids as people who are somewhat fanatical about animals, plants, and the environment. Their ranks would include PETA members and Greenpeace members. Biologists, oceanographers, veterinarians, and zookeepers would be other candidates for druids.
The last time I participated in a thread like this, at least 75 percent of D&D gamers self-identified themselves as bards. The people that do the other jobs in real life tend not to have much time to do silly things like play D&D computer games or participate in forums about it. It will be interesting to see if this thread follows the same pattern. So far, it looks like it is.
Oh wait, you're talking about the GAME...
http://www.goblinscomic.org/02202006/
LOL - every jaw in the room hit the floor, and "John's" brother started stammering, pointing at his brother and glaring at me, saying over and over "GIVE him a Raise Dead!". LOL. It was quite funny. "John's" brother was "Carl".
Carl: GIVE him a Raise Dead!
Bel: No. He's been rude to me all day.
Carl: GIVE him a Raise Dead!
Bel: No.
Carl: GIVE him a Raise Dead!
Bel: No. I don't like him.
Carl: GIVE him a Raise Dead!
Bel: No.
John: {{sits there with eyes like saucers, and mouth agape, as though I had just stabbed him in the heart by refusing him a Raise Dead spell, despite his several hours' worth of bullying me and insulting me.>
DM: <looks at all of us with a huge grin and looks like he's about to burst into laughter. I think he was on *my* side.}}
Also, I am a huge fan of both OoTS, and Goblins. Go, Elan! The longer the series goes on, the more awesome Elan the spoony bard gets. Hey, HE gets Haley, not Roy! And did you see the most recent few strips, where it was ELAN'S powers of illusion that hide the OotS from the Linear Guild in a vulnerable moment? Although, Snakie Vampire Priest had just cast a True Sight, and could see them. I wonder why he chose to leave them be? Ha, we need a thread just for discussing OotS plot developments!
As The Ancient One has mentioned above, I have yet to read a better DnD 3.x comedy strip (with an engaging and deep storyline to boot).
Back to the topic, I said I'd be an expert-scholar, but considering my brush with the experimental side of my chosen field of study in real life, I could be a wizard I guess. But I'd be a much lower level wizard than I would be an expert.