What class are you?

[sonofzeal]

As the title says - what D&D class comes closest to capturing your real-life talents and abilities?

I, personally, am almost certainly a Factotum. I favour being a generalist over a specialist, I tend to know at least a little bit about most subjects (I was a trivia team captain in highschool), I have training in totally random things (from first aid to iaijutsu to computer programming to working with mental disabilities), and I tend to be talented at Str or Dex based activities without actually being particularly strong or dextrous. I also tend to use up a lot of energy (IP?) quickly to accomplish a lot, and then need time to rest. All in all, Factotum seems right on every count.

[JackMage666]

Hi-Cha, Med-Dex Rogue, all the way. I'm naturally stealthy and silver-tongued, able to talk people into calming down, seeing things my way, or getting out of trouble with a well placed lie. I've got some stealth on me, and am usually able to get around generally unnoticed, and my years of videogaming has given me alot of hand-eye coordination. Additionally, I have an above average set of mental stats, as I was one of the better students in school (even though I never tried, because I never cared about school), and I'm normally considered one of the more level headed minds to talk to when my friends have a problem. Str is low, though getting higher thanks to my lovely job that requires me to carry 35 lbs back and forth for 8 hours, and my Con is probably Average/Slightly Above average, as I have allergies, though rarely get actually sick.

[Thurbane]

Well, if we're gonna be honest about it, probably Expert, or maybe even Commoner...

[Collin152]

Beguiler.

Despite my intense love of honesty, I'm supernaturally skilled at deceiving, persuading, and so forth.
Which is handy, frequently enough.

[Eldariel]

Unarmed Swordsage. On a very low level. I'm a martial artist, first and foremost, with quite solid know how in a large number skills. So high Int Unarmed Swordsage (and obviously the reasonable Dex and Con that goes with the profession).

[Edan]

Probably a Cloistered Cleric without spellcasting of course. Not good physical scores except for dexterity, with an assortment of knowledge skills because I tend to know one thing about most everything. Cleric mainly because of my religious background and immediate future in such area.

[Shazzbaa]

My usual response to this question is "As I am unskilled in both combat and magic, I can only assume I'm some manner of bard..."

But in all honesty I could answer this a few ways. In personality, I fit the Cloistered Cleric -- I'd be the one healing, rather than fighting, and the one who knows all this random stuff due to a love of studying, well, random stuff.
But then, since I have long considered wizards to be like programmers and sorcerers to be like artists... As an artist who was "born with the gift," so to speak, I identify with sorcerers a great deal. But... that would depend on whether or not I ended up actually being born with magical abilities.

However, in terms of real life abilities, I have a strength of about 6 (no lie), with an okay Dex and a horrible Constitution. I'm told that I have what might be considered above average INT, WIS, and CHA, but nothing super-stunning (maybe a 15 or 16 for my highest... no 18s here)... and in addition to that, a wide variety of flaws are apparent in my abilities (feeble, frail, inattentive, non-combatant, poor reflexes and vulnerable), and I appear to have wasted all my free feats on things like "Skill Focus (Drawing)." I have no combat skill whatsoever, and have never learned anything that could be equated with the complexity of magic or psionics. My absorption and retention of useless information is the only skill I possess beyond art, so... I'd have to go with either an expert, or that Bard I mentioned earlier if I get to be a PC class.

[bibliophile]

Cloistered cleric, because:
1)I'm not much of a fighter

2)Bardic lore, I know lots of random trivia

3)all knowlage skills would be in-class for me

[arguskos]

Lessee... if we're being honest here, and with the following stats:

Str: 12
Dex: 8
Con: 14
Int: 11-12
Wis: 8
Cha: 14

I'd probably end up as some sort of sorcerer/bard (if we have magic) or a fighter/paladin (w/o magic). If PC classes are forbidden to me, then... uh, warrior or commoner.

-argus

[Dhavaer]

Smart/Strong ordinary. Occupation is probably White Collar. Or Slacker.

[Trizap]

I'm not physically fit.......but I am intelligent, I like art and reading fantasy,
so I think I'm a Sorcerer

[CASTLEMIKE]

I'm probably a Expert-2, Warrior -2, Commoner -2 (In Ebberron I would probably have 3 levels or a fourth with a level of Magewright) since I have two Journeyman cards, a Double Master's degree and 15 years in the Navy. I think it would be neat to be able to do real magic so something like a Feat trick Beguiler -1, Wizard -3, Ultimate Magus -2 (Spellfire Wielder) with a cool template or two. Took the Deck of Many Things challenge today and became a Diplomancer with my own keep.

[Vexxation]

Commoner with Chicken Infested.
(I live on a farm)

Probably level 1, too.
That nets three feats...
Hm...
I'll take Alertness, Deceitful, and Skill Focus: Basketweaving.

[...Eh?]

Probably Samurai: I tend to be mediocre at most things I try. <_<

If I was going to be excessively self-confident, probably bard; still not that good at most things, but fairly good with people.

[Chronos]

The answer depends on whether I translate my abilities into D&D terms, or just transcribe them. Translating (i.e., describing what I would be, were I in a D&D world, in D&D terms), I'm a wizard, specializing in divination with enchantment barred, and working my way towards Loremaster (though I'm not high enough level yet).

Transcribing, though (that is, describing in D&D terms what I actually am in this world), I'm a level 4 expert, with class skills chosen mostly to represent physics, teaching, and related subjects.

[Deepblue706]

I'm obviously an Archmage. Probably epic.

[Dr Bwaa]

Monk with high int, lower cha, decent other stats. Similar to what Eldariel said, except I said monk instead of unarmed swordsage because I wanted to be original, even though what he posted describes me quite well :)

transcribed, of course (to steal Chronos' close-to-hand definition), I'm a level 1 expert with high int, with skills focused in (as applicable as possible) the martial arts, computer science, and writing.

[Lyndworm]

True Neutral (Good tendencies) Rogue/Cloistered Cleric, Str 16, Dex 14, Con 10, Wis 10, Cha 16, Int 14.

Despite my considerable size (6'1, if I can be bothered to stand up straight, and 350+lbs), I am incredibly sneaky. No one ever hears me coming, and I frequently startle people by accident. In addition to that, I am deeply religious/spiritual and have a deep love of knowledge in all forms, especially language, trivia, and nature.

The high strength and low constitution may seem something of an oxymoron, but I'm allergic to virtually everything and spend a lot of time being all but bed-ridden by my allergies.

I really am strong though. I once pulled a 150-200lb block of cement out of the ground and threw it a few feet during some yard work. For a good five rounds no one within three squares was able to act. Along that vein, I could bench 150 when I was ten.

It's a universally recognised fact that I talk goodly. I have a way with words, and I'm not above using it to manipulate others. Men, women, children, governments... all are fair game.

Though I have no formal training, I consider myself far above average in hand-to-hand combat and even swordplay (though I prefer axes).

If all goes well, though, I'm going to pick up a few levels of Ranger in the future. (Cryptozoologist/cryptobiologist.)

To borrow Choronos' idea of transcribing, I'm most likely a commoner 1/expert 2. Skills and feats focused towards holding my own against NPC's in mental and physical combat, and dying horribly against everythng else (whether there's actual danger or not).

Long story short, I'm a big fat guy who likes animals and gets sick a lot. I am not an impressive man.

Zack

[Stormageddon]

Multi-class Bard/barbarian

[CASTLEMIKE]

I'm obviously an Archmage. Probably epic.

Thought you were Azuth or Zagy in disguise

[Swok]

Well, if we're gonna be honest about it, probably Expert, or maybe even Commoner...

Almost everyone in the modern world with any degree of education would be an expert at least. Really, the only reason peasants in medieval worlds are commoners is because they are too busy farming to really learn anything. That restriction is not placed on people in a industrialized nation.

More on topic, I'm closest to Rogue or an Expert. Scores would be a decent intelligence and dexterity. Middling in most other scores though, except maybe con. It doesn't help with how abstract D&D ability scores are.

I also have a cousin that fits Barbarian uncannily well. He even can basically rage...It's actually pretty disturbing, to be honest.

[SilentNight]

Probably a bard. I'm a musician and kind of see myself as a "jack-of-all-trades master-of-none."

[SadisticFishing]

Human Monk 1/Rogue 1

Improved Unarmed Strike
Improved Stunning Fist
Improved Grapple
Ability Focus (Stunning Fist)

That seems about right to me, really. Using fractional BAB.

I'm a martial artist, but we're trained to be street fighters, and I have a lot of skills/decent int.

My stats: decent str/con, high-ish dex (low flexibility, high speed), good int, decent cha/wis.

12/15/12/15/13/13 or so. Possibly higher in some, but I don't think I'm lower in any (I MIGHT have 14 int)

[fireinthedust]

I'd make my stats up using Mutants and Masterminds 2nd edition. Therefore, I'm a super hero.


However, if we're talking 3.x I'd be... probably a cleric. Solid love for God and I spend all day helping people in a social work setting (reliance on wisdom (knowing what's going on) and Cha (talking to folks about their problems).

actually, tho, I'm engaged; which means not cleric, so... PALADIN! Or else I'm a warlock who made a pact with Jesus; it's about as weird an idea as I am a person, so I kinda like it. Yep, multi-classed warlock-paladin.

4e I can do it!

[expirement10K14]

Probably a rogue. High intelligence maxing out knowledge skills, a high charisma keeping me out of trouble (teachers are easy to trick...), low str, mid-high dex, high wisdom, mid constitution. Maybe some combat reflexes and improved grapple, I just took one lesson of law-enforcement jiu jitsu and took down some kid in about three second. High school wrestling units are a good way to practice these things.

[alchemyprime]

Bard. With lots a ranks in Knowledge. And Perform (Act) and Perform (Sax), but just a bit.

I know too much crap, I perform, and I'm generally useless outside of ideas. And trivia.

[Ned the undead]

High CHA Rouge.

[Draken]

Hard to say. But probably a Diamond Mind Warblade, possibly changing one of my other disciplines (White Raven, I bet) into Desert Wind.

Dex and Int based, mainly the later, poor str, poor con, moderate wis and cha. Yup.

[Xyk]

I'd go with rogue.

Feats Improved unarmed strike
jack of all trades

I take jujitsu and it focuses on street fighting. plus I am talented at many things. joat for perform.

[BloodyAngel]

As someone who's transcribed themselves into games a time or three... I know full well what I'd likely end up. My strength is mediocre at best, but I'm small, flexible and pretty quick. Good dex, Int and Charisma... awful Strength, average con and wisdom (maybe a little low in wisdom too. :P)

In D&D... I'm lowish leveled (3rd or 4th, tops) char, and probably a rogue... or possibly a beguiler, sorceress or sorceress/rogue.

In d20 modern.... Fast/Charismatic hero.