What is your irl class?
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Since the poll I made yesterday was an utter train wreck I decided to make a new poll.
(People choosing their fav class instead of their own, people not keeping in mind that there are countless additional classes, etc.)
What class do you feel fits you the most?
(Not the one you like best or prefer to play as.)
This is based on your job, hobbies, talents, interests and personality.
The game edition doesn't matter. You can be a neutral evil ranger, an orc wizard or a barbarian/warlock if that fits you.
The classes are more based on widely accepted archetypes in this case.
Here are a few things that correspond with some of the classes:
- Barbarian: Brute, strong, reckless, brawn over brains, strength over finesse
- Blackguard: Black metalhead, goth, violent
- Bard: Artistic (musician, writer, actor, etc.), charismatic
- Cleric: Religious, wise
- Druid: Strong affinity for nature and animals, probably into esoterics
- Fighter: Can actually fight, equaly strong and dexterous
- Monk: Knows eastern hand to hand combat (kung fu, karate, etc.), follows eastern philosophy/ religion
- Paladin: Strong protective instinct, loyal, strong morals, natural leader, probably religious
- Ranger: Marksman (archery, rifles, etc.), survival skills, good sense of orientation
- Rogue: Cleptomanic, dexterous, good with machinery (locks, watches, motors, etc.), quick
- Shaman: Esoterics, spirtitualism, fortune telling
- Sorcerer: Naturally gifted, doesn't do well with traditional learning
- Warlock: Actual satanist, goth, unusually ambitious/ hungry for knowledge, book-smart
- Wizard: Scholar, stage magician, book-smart, scientist
In case you have problems choosing, take this handy test I prepared (it's a WIP, I'd be thankful for feedback on how to make it more accurate).
Don't forget that there are quite a few more classes out there (I didn't bother listing them though, because I feel they are either too obscure/ uncommon, too similar to one of the other classes or they are simply hybrid classes). Examples: Witch, alchemist, oracle, summoner, chevalier, all of the prestige classes, etc.
As always, please specify in the comments.
If something isn't clear, please ask before voting
(People choosing their fav class instead of their own, people not keeping in mind that there are countless additional classes, etc.)
What class do you feel fits you the most?
(Not the one you like best or prefer to play as.)
This is based on your job, hobbies, talents, interests and personality.
The game edition doesn't matter. You can be a neutral evil ranger, an orc wizard or a barbarian/warlock if that fits you.
The classes are more based on widely accepted archetypes in this case.
Here are a few things that correspond with some of the classes:
- Barbarian: Brute, strong, reckless, brawn over brains, strength over finesse
- Blackguard: Black metalhead, goth, violent
- Bard: Artistic (musician, writer, actor, etc.), charismatic
- Cleric: Religious, wise
- Druid: Strong affinity for nature and animals, probably into esoterics
- Fighter: Can actually fight, equaly strong and dexterous
- Monk: Knows eastern hand to hand combat (kung fu, karate, etc.), follows eastern philosophy/ religion
- Paladin: Strong protective instinct, loyal, strong morals, natural leader, probably religious
- Ranger: Marksman (archery, rifles, etc.), survival skills, good sense of orientation
- Rogue: Cleptomanic, dexterous, good with machinery (locks, watches, motors, etc.), quick
- Shaman: Esoterics, spirtitualism, fortune telling
- Sorcerer: Naturally gifted, doesn't do well with traditional learning
- Warlock: Actual satanist, goth, unusually ambitious/ hungry for knowledge, book-smart
- Wizard: Scholar, stage magician, book-smart, scientist
In case you have problems choosing, take this handy test I prepared (it's a WIP, I'd be thankful for feedback on how to make it more accurate).
Don't forget that there are quite a few more classes out there (I didn't bother listing them though, because I feel they are either too obscure/ uncommon, too similar to one of the other classes or they are simply hybrid classes). Examples: Witch, alchemist, oracle, summoner, chevalier, all of the prestige classes, etc.
As always, please specify in the comments.
If something isn't clear, please ask before voting
- What is your irl class?89 votes
- Bard - Wouldn't you rather a tune? A sonnet? Some grand melody?14.61%
- Cleric, Monk - Shar guides my hand.4.49%
- Druid, Shaman - Nature takes the life she gave!4.49%
- Fighter, Barbarian, Blackguard - Live by the sword, live a good, long life!5.62%
- Paladin - My honor is my life.0.00%
- Ranger - The bustle of the forest makes me feel insignificant.8.99%
- Rogue - I can dance on the head of a pin as well.3.37%
- Wizard, Warlock, Sorcerer - Elminster this, Elminster that. Give ME 2000 years and a pointy hat and I'll kick his arse!28.09%
- Dual-/ Multiclassed16.85%
- Other13.48%
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Comments
(I don't want to point fingers >.>)
Having said that, it picked bard as my class. Do you think I should go with that here, or is there some combination of bard with another class that has more contact with nature that might fit better? I am only familiar with BG classes.
I do lots of writing when I'm not in class and my friends say I have a Charisma of 14 (though I think I have a 13). I'm very scholarly so I thought wizard might fit better but I suppose the Bard's lore bonus/Bardic Knowledge could also fit for scholarly-ness.
Zap! Kapow! Pew pew pew! Pew pew!
5e has fey type bard:
http://www.middlefingerofvecna.com/2016/04/fey-bard.html?m=1
Good work on the test!
Well, you could dual-class as a bard/ druid or bard/ ranger. There is also the bard archetype (those are the Pathfinder equivalents to class kits in AD&D) called Animal Speaker. Kinda depends though in what way you commune with nature.
http://archive.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/ex/20050107a&page=2
Also in 5e with the Lore Bard you can learn spells from other classes at certain levels, meaning you could take druid spells.
About your test, I geniuely think that 8 questions makes too little data to work with - the margin of error is quite high, since one answer that or other way can make a relatively huge difference. I'm also wonder what favourite animal have anything to do with out class. And finally, I took your test 3 more times after that, with intent to see if I am able to get a class I want. And all 3 times I get exactly what I want (Blackguard, Cleric and Fighter) - many answers are just to obvious, so one can "choose" his/her desired result just like that.
The favourite animal question is basically just flavour, based on which animal traditionally corresponds with which class. Symbolism, nothing more.
As for the predictability, that is kinda the point. The test is not supossed to be secret, it's supossed to be logical. When someone picks the wrong answers on purpose they are just lying to themselves.
I think this poll and the test are a very nice way to have forumites get to know eachother in an easy and non-invasive way, no matter what some might think about their scientific relevance.
As for specifying: I got animal companions, I like to walk a lot, especially in nature/semi-nature, and sometimes I even look like a lost boy scout or a fired park ranger, so that would explain most of the ranger bit. The druid bit: Well, give me a garden and some time alone with it, and it'll turn into a semi-wild grove of sorts, with lots of berries and some nuts and wild edibles, as well as some common medicinal and/or psychedelic herbs, and lots of places for small woodland critters to find food and shelter. The bard bit: Stories. Books, film, tv-series, games, anything. And I'm pretty proficient with words too (short words, long words and two pips in bastard words), in my native tongue anyway. And though my singing would probably not raise anyones morale, it still might be useful for scaring off enemies. And neighbours.
A suggestion for the quiz would be to separate the hobbies into an often, sometimes, never answer. Many of those answers fit (partying, writing, rustling jimmies) that choosing just one was a dilemma.
http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Summer_rhymer
I stumbled across this stuff when also looking for a nature like bard some time ago.
I believe that I will go with a duel Bard/Druid.
I wish I could play this in BG. I think it would be great fun to charm the enemy with a gentle melody, then subtly send a swarm of insects their way… Or perhaps a wolf to surprise them from behind.
I'm a lawyer. So that'd be an Int based class dealing with alot of paperwork.
I'm in the national guard in field artillery (work in a fire direction center, telling the guns where to go and what to blow up). That sounds to me like the equivalent of throwing fireballs.