D&D 4.0 What do you want to play?

[Yeril]

4th Edition is on its way and Ive been vaugly keeping up the news, I read about the Ranger/Scout Direction and since then I decided "The first character I play in 4th edition is gonner be a ranger."

And just now I thought "Hey I wonder if other people have decided their first class too?"

So here it is, I want to play a Ranger.

What do You Want to Play?

[OzymandiasVolt]

I don't know because it hasn't been released yet.

[Lord Lorac Silvanos]

Half-Elf Monk.

[psychoticbarber]

A Bard, probably human, assuming the class survives. (Dear Lord let the Bard survive and not suck)

[Grey Paladin]

Fighter/Wizard

[Starsinger]

So far Bard... I dunno why. My first 3e character was a bard.

[TSGames]

What do You Want to Play?

Not a gnome, that's for sure!

[Indon]

Whatever my "Next character" concept for 3.5 will be at the time.

At present, it's a blaster-sorceror with Energy Substitution for everything (Ice Ball, Acid Shout, Burning Fog, Sonic Bolt, Electrocuting Ray).

[AKA_Bait]

Gotta be a Human Wizard. I want to see if they managed to keep it from being overpowered. They seem to be folding 3 classes that already overpower almost everything melee into the new Wizard and I'm skeptical if they actually managed to achieve some better balance.

[TroyXavier]

Won't know till the book is out but I'm definitely curious about the Warlord.

[Spiryt]

I think I'm gonna play Ranger too .

If he's going to be have more "scout-like" it can be cool.

(I never liked animal companion, altough spells were OK (mostly)).

[Nerd-o-rama]

Sigil Prep 4e!

But in terms of an actual character, a no-LA Tiefling will be nice to play with.

[Dausuul]

Either a wizard or a sorceror, almost certainly. I love the arcane casters, and I'm really looking forward to seeing what happens when they're freed from the icy clutch of Jack Vance's withered hand.

[Morty]

A wizard. They'll be no longer Vancian, which is bad, but they'll still be wizards, and that's important. Really, I never have a "what to play first" dilemma when trying out a new system, because I always play wizard first. However, if they screw magic system up really bad, I'll play Warlord, as this class seems like something new.

[Glaivemaster]

A rogue, because the first character of any game I play is always a rogue of some sort, and I want to see what new l33t skillz they get. As for race, I'm not really bothered. I might go for the halfling, to see if they've made the interaction for a halfling/rogue classic

[Kyle]

First I'll have to carefully look through each race, figure out what's new, and what's the same, try and get a sense of it's strengths and weaknesses of each one.

Then I'll go through the classes, with an eye towards what role they're designed to fill in the overall sense of the game,.

After that, I'll examine the skills and feats--or whatever the 4th Edition equivalents are--and make a rough map in my head of how certain ones fit together in various combinations to produce differant affects.

Then I'll roll up a human fighter with the biggest weapon in the equipment guide.

[Zincorium]

Dwarven ranger or barbarian, not sure if barbarians will survive the change so ranger is a nice backup option (hopefully they won't be stuck with the choice of bow, two weapons, or wasted class feature).

[Matthew]

Two weapon Fighting Human Samurai.

[Flawless]

Human or dwarven Cleric FTW!

I really love playing clerics, so I'm curious as to how they'll work in 4th edition. And I love nwe mechanics ;)

[Pokemaster]

I'd like to try a Rogue/Paladin/Duelist-type build. I figured it'd be a pretty good measure of how effective the 4th Edition is at doing what I want it to do.

[Hopeless]

4th Edition is on its way and Ive been vaugly keeping up the news, I read about the Ranger/Scout Direction and since then I decided "The first character I play in 4th edition is gonner be a ranger."

And just now I thought "Hey I wonder if other people have decided their first class too?"

So here it is, I want to play a Ranger.

What do You Want to Play?

Human Barbarian who appears male but is actually female (courtesy of watching anime shows specifically Princess Minerva and Louie the Rune Soldier) I just want to run a character using the reverse rules of bishonen where a bloke looks like a girl (and yes I've probably got the reference wrong but you should know what i mean).

Other than that just run a character who fights either with paired weapons or axe and shield (and by paired I mean sword & dagger, unarmed, especially unarmed and by that i means the Gamers special move of groin kick...)

Well that and I want to see how that game table works...

[CASTLEMIKE]

3.5 for the first half year or so while I make up my mind about transitioning.

[Roderick_BR]

I'll go with the classic. Anything about paladins, knights, or plainly fighter, whatever they have in that style.

[Overlard]

Now that they're finally getting rid of vancian spellcasting, probably a wizard. I'm interested to see what the hell the warlord is though.

[Nerd-o-rama]

Now that they're finally getting rid of vancian spellcasting, probably a wizard. I'm interested to see what the hell the warlord is though.

This is pure speculation, but I feel like it'll be some kind of more martial Marshal. Boosts allies' combat ability while being able to stand on the front lines. Possibly some healing, based on the "Leader Role" description, so perhaps it'll be something like the Crusader, with their healing and buffing Maneuvers.

Just guessing on all counts, though.

[Overlard]

This is pure speculation, but I feel like it'll be some kind of more martial Marshal. Boosts allies' combat ability while being able to stand on the front lines. Possibly some healing, based on the "Leader Role" description, so perhaps it'll be something like the Crusader, with their healing and buffing Maneuvers.

Just guessing on all counts, though.

Yeah, I'm thinking it's likely to be a fighter-type with bardic boosts, rather than the jack-of-all-trades the bard tries to be.

Still a terrible class name though.

[Green Bean]

I gonna play a spiky-haired martial adept who carries a sword bigger than he is, capable of leaping around like a deranged frog. After all, that's pretty much the only option 4e has to offer. Note: Satire


Seriously, though, I'm probably going to go straight for the Sorcerer class. I love the flavour, and not having to plan what I'm going to cast every single encounter. I like the 3.5 version, but from the way it sounds, 4e will be moving away from the 'wizard lite' paradigm, which is good in my books. Either that, or cleric.

[Ceres]

Gnome barbarian/monk

[Tormsskull]

Lesbian stripper ninja (its going to be a PrC)

[Starbuck_II]

Lesbian stripper ninja (its going to be a PrC)

Ninja is going to be a Prc or Lesbian stripper?