Favorite PHB Class to Play

[lastgrasp]

Back in my younger days I enjoyed magic-users. As I've gotten older I tend to play a cleric. My last AD&D game I was a cleric. A very versatile class. I don't mind being a support character with decent hp and still do some damage.

[Dizzy]

I've gotta say, for a low-level party, being a cleric is definitely where it is out. Armor? Check, Fighting Capability? Check, Spell Casting? Check, Lowish EXP Requirement? Check. Sign me up

[smblackmon]

I've gotta say, for a low-level party, being a cleric is definitely where it is out. Armor? Check, Fighting Capability? Check, Spell Casting? Check, Lowish EXP Requirement? Check. Sign me up

and don't forget some pretty awesome spells too

[Fjw70]

I've gotta say, for a low-level party, being a cleric is definitely where it is out. Armor? Check, Fighting Capability? Check, Spell Casting? Check, Lowish EXP Requirement? Check. Sign me up

You are such a power gamer.

[dmcourtemanche]

Bearing in mind that I've participated as a "player" as opposed to DM fewer than ten times, on each of those occasions I portrayed a cleric. I'm not sure why, but if I had to guess, I would say that since all of those occasions occurred between 1983 and 1987, I was probably trying to compensate for a catholic schoolkid's guilty conscience on some level.
I don't think it worked. Each of them perished in usual sorts of ways, but with a kind of steadfast, galloping stupidity that still makes me cringe.

So, yeah, ditto, ditto, ditto, etc., etc., as per the answers of my esteemed brethren.

[Dizzy]

I've gotta say, for a low-level party, being a cleric is definitely where it is out. Armor? Check, Fighting Capability? Check, Spell Casting? Check, Lowish EXP Requirement? Check. Sign me up

You are such a power gamer.

Hah, thanks FJW. I once nearly got kicked out of a Pathfinder game because I wasn't optimizing my fighter.

[Serian]

Hah, thanks FJW. I once nearly got kicked out of a Pathfinder game because I wasn't optimizing my fighter.

When playing *real* D&D, "optimizing your fighter" is done via role playing, not by picking stats and special abilities.

[Maegnarval]

Hmm, can't say i have any one particular favorite, as i enjoy cycling through All of the 1st/2nd edition classes.

So far, for like the last 3 years, i've played a paladin, ranger, half-orc war priest, & a mage. For "Beyond the Wall" i played a Clockwork Boy.

[Dalfort]

My favourite from 1st Ed was the Ranger but I played a Halfling Thief as my first character and moved onto a Dwarven Fighter that died from an Iron Cobra bite in his first adventure and he had a 19 Con!!!

Playing a Bard in first edition required a lot of play time as you had to dual class Fighter then Thief BEFORE starting on the Bard class (alas old age prevents me from quoting the actual levels but F 7th and T 5th spring to mind).

[ian54]

I like the basic classes, with extreme stats, either a dumb strong Fighter or a weedy quick Thief. The only subclass that ever interested me was the Druid.

[Shiftkitty]

Fighter is my class of choice. No sneaking around, no praying for miracles, no prancing around chanting ancient mumbo-jumbo; just give me a big weapon and a monster to bury it in!

[DM Keith]

My first character was a hapless magic-user, with 3 hp, magic missile, but he was a mean man with a dagger.

After that I always DM'ed.

But the few times I've gotten to play, I've played a Ranger. 
It's just a cool class... I always loved Strider in LOTR, and since I like outdoors stuff anyway, it is by far my favorite class.  And they can cast spells, too.
Plus, I'm sneaky.

[Julia2207]

so it's strong and end stronger

[Pladohs Ghost]

I had to stop and think about it for a bit. The characters I remember most fondly include a couple of clerics, a couple of fighters, a couple of MUs, and an assassin. I reckon my favorite class was the cleric, though usually not one much given to healing.

[Mojo]

For whatever weird reason I love playing Rangers. Clerics are my second favorite, followed last by the ole faithful fighter. I would have to say that my least favorite class to play is the ole magic user. Counting the game I am playing in now with Dizzy as DM I have played 2 yes 2 Magic users and both have been named Issac Poe. I only hope this one ends up better then my first one did.

mojo