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.
While it used to be arcane trickster rogue, I recently played a Paladin and was amazed by the power of smite.
Multiclassing is it for me. Monk/sorcerer, paladin/bard, fighter/literally anything.
If I had to pick a single class, I think that is Druid. They are so versatile.
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.
So far, the class I had the most fun with was artificer. There was so much room for creativity, even though I was a half caster. The class features were just so great for anything out of Combat. Also, tanking was super fun, I made my whole gear load out magic so my AC was super high. Then I would just cast blur on myself and run head first in to the fight.
Idk if we’re on the topic of 3rd party content, but I’m currently playing a changeling illrigger, which is an MCDM class. It’s ridiculously fun. The way that changeling and the shadowmaster subclass synergize with each other is awesome.
I love Bards. I like to play support but still have some offensive potential, so that works out well for me. Also my first character ever was a bard who’s dream was to be an accountant, so the class will always have a special place in my heart. Vicious mockery for life.
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.
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!
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!
I have been stuck in the DM role in the past few campaigns I’ve played, so I guess I enjoy that role 😅
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.
Bard without stereotypes. Because I love the roleplaying aspect of the game. And I can pretty much help my friends easily
I’ve played maybe a dozen characters, but the one I always want to go back to is my DND4 runepriest. I’m not sure why, I don’t think DND4 is particularly good, but that class just felt so fun for me
I don’t know how you or your table feels about third party stuff but Indestructoboy has a a Runekeeper for 5e that is heavily influenced by the 4e one (I’ve never played 4e so I can’t verify this myself.) It looks very awesome and you might like it. It is not free but you can download a preview of the whole thing for free from the dmsguild site (so basically free).
That looks awesome for sure! We were thinking about starting a fresh 5e campaign so I’m gonna look into this some more and maybe make one, thanks for posting this
