Anyone have characters they gravitate toward?
Draekin
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In real life I make my living on my brain (scientist) and I'm pretty much a pacifist. I enjoy the outdoors, make my own homemade bows, meditate frequently, and used to be an athlete.
You could look at those qualities and (if trying to shove me in a traditional D&D class box) assume that I might be a mage or druid or ranger. But somehow, no matter what RPG I'm playing, I always enjoy playing thieves/rogues the most.
No matter how hard I try to get into playing a Druid or a Mage, etc. I can never really finish. I always come crawling back to the rogue class... which doesn't make any sense to me, based on my real life personality.
Anyone else have this sort of thing going on with them?
You could look at those qualities and (if trying to shove me in a traditional D&D class box) assume that I might be a mage or druid or ranger. But somehow, no matter what RPG I'm playing, I always enjoy playing thieves/rogues the most.
No matter how hard I try to get into playing a Druid or a Mage, etc. I can never really finish. I always come crawling back to the rogue class... which doesn't make any sense to me, based on my real life personality.
Anyone else have this sort of thing going on with them?
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I do play male characters sometimes too, and no matter what class I play, I always have a drinking problem. Most notably a rogue or a hotshot pilot (Warhammer) getting drunk off his arse for entertainment.
I honestly play everything sometimes, but bards are my default choice.
Who are female.
And come with a drinking problem!
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I think I have a different kinda problem of my own... >_>;;
Mummified Gnome Necromancer.
Occasionally I multiclass, but the core character remains the same.
I believe the main reason I do this is because I don't like roleplay.
That said, one of the first characters I ever created for a computer game was a Bard named X-Silver for Bard's Tale. That was back when bards actually had some cool special abilities. Happily, Icewind Dale brought back a bit of that fun too.
The first time I played BG I made a paladin. The first character I beat the game with was a mage. Same with BG2. I think the only reason I beat BG2 with a mage first was because I rolled a 97 for an elven sorcerer, how could I not play that character to the end?
I've never really been fond of clerics. I'm currently trying to take a half-orc priest of Lathander through the whole series but it's slow going (I get bored and go back to my halfling thief).
Poison and arrows, attacks from the shadows, hiding, setting traps. I like to play as a thief and can say that generally prefer to generate a rogue. For many years I one way or another I've been always choosing a thief (kitted, unkitted, multiclassed, dual-classed) as a charname.
Meanwhile, right now I'm having a blast playing a totemic druid no-reload solo run. It plays just too much differently if compared to a thief run and this differency is the thing I've been surprised to like actually.
So in order to resist the gravitation I think one should try something compeletely different and enhance it with certain rules (e.g., solo, no-reload, SCS and so on).
I normally play a fighter type and blindly charge into every fight hacking and slashing (Lilacor would be proud). I thought i'd try a different approach, so i installed scs and started off with a solo dragon disciple thinking i'd at least try minimal reload. I got killed by Shank, he poisoned me, reload.
Since then i've been having a wail of a time because i have no idea what i'm doing and my chances of dying are rather high. I now reload quite a bit but i have buckets of fun trying to improvise my way through everything and if i die oh well, reload and try a different tactic. I'm going into completely new territory(unfamiliar class, soloing, scs and roleplaying lawful evil) and everything is really fresh and exciting. Accomplished sorcerers/mages would probably disapprove of some of my tactics but who cares I'm getting through it (for now). And the best thing is I'm as attached to my Dragon Disciple as i have been to any of my other characters.
I have now embraced the philosophy of:
Basically I'm a Edwin-Viconia hybrid who's not evil. (I hope ....)
So I guess I gravitate towards the spellcasting classes.
Edit: typo
In one game in the original Star Wars Roleplaying Game, I played a Bounty-Hunter who spent an entire game playing the Strong, Silent, Stupid bodyguard. Literally, whenever another character (not in our party) talked with me, they got "Me guard. She person I guard." (or in the case of the lady in question. "Me guard, you person I guard.") I spent most of the game saying variations of that. And the lady I was guarding turned out to be an Imperial Agent undercover amongst the Rebels and tried to defect to the Imperial side, I beat the two Stormtroopers with one single roll, knocked her down and went after the Moff she was defecting to, and pointed my blaster at his face and set, "Move and I blow another orifice in your face." (words to that effect) in a perfectly reasonable tone of voice.
I like to play all divine classes, I've finished BG2 with both pallys and clerics. There's just something about such unrelenting faith that fascinates me, although I'm a total atheist myself.
@kcwise I think Aragorn is just a good-aligned ranger with great charisma and leadership-abilities. I dunno, why do you think he is part pally?
When I said paladin I meant more in terms of his personality than his abilities. Obviously he didn't run around healing with his hands and flashing holy symbols at undead. Drizzt also, to my mind, seems to have an abundance of paladin-like personality traits.
I'm a sorc all the way if i have the choice, bossy, all powerful, arrogant... life is good :P
Secondarily - elemental caster - Shaman, Sorcerer, Mage, occasional Druid.
Even if I'm not playing an actual paladin, I always play a character with the same ethics as paladins, and who works with any recruitable paladins in the games.
I love playing "holy" characters who are beloved by the gods and who behave like celestials in training, always acting with mercy and compassion towards the innocent, yet ruthless in seeking out and destroying evil, especially undead. I have a consuming hatred of undead in games and entertainment, and I get a real thrill out of making them explode into chunks when I'm playing a cleric.
But I'm also fascinated with arcane magic systems in games. When I play a cleric or pally, I start getting jealous of all the flashy fun the arcanists are having. When I play a mage, sorcerer, or bard, I start getting jealous of all the holy might and healing of the divinely favored.
This division of my "gravitation" towards both arcane and divine leads me to many, many restarts. You'd think cleric-mage would be the perfect solution, but when I do that, I start getting jealous of the pure class npc's having access to a spell level higher than mine.
So, in order of frequency, I'd say cleric, cleric-mage, mage, sorcerer, druid, bard, and paladin are my classes. I almost never play anything else in any game, with the notable exception of one barbarian run I once did trying to break out of my rut.
That was actually a pretty fun run, so identifying what you gravitate toward by habit and then deliberately playing the opposite can add a breath of fresh air to your games.
Hey Andre, jealous of Kang?
When I was a kid, I tended to go for straight up fighter types, mostly because they got to wear cool-looking armour. Then, kinda like @BelgarathMTH I got jealous of spell-casters doing flashy fancy things whilst I was stuck smashing and stabbing.
When I got a little older, and realised that I'd never become a tall, muscle-bound behemoth clad in steel plate (so sad), I found myself drawn more towards characters that employ speed and skill over brute strength, and when I came across the Wuxia genre a few years ago, I became captivated by the stories of skillful warriors whose abilities are so advanced they are basically magical.
Hence in the last few years I've tended to be drawn towards the "battlemage" type characters; warriors who use magic to enhance their fighting capabilities. In Baldur's Gate that means Fighter/Mage types who use Mirror Image, Improved Haste etc
I do enjoy more traditional spellcasters too. Though I prefer a sword to a staff and robes, I had a blast with a Wizard in Diablo 3 and really enjoy my Sorcerer in my multiplayer BG full saga playthrough. Commanding the unbound potential powers of the arcane is just awesome!
i'll stand by my decision though lol. i don't like being the "bossy, all powerful" wizard who stands in the back and lets the fighters do all the work like @alveusmalcanter. i instead like to lead by example and keep my friends safe, even if I am not the main tank. i just like being in front and taking the hits so the squishies don't have to.
Chaotic Neutral Thief is also a favorite. This is probably due to my time playing Thief as a teenager and my unrealized dream of becoming a snarky cat-burglar.