What kind of characters do you tend to play? Which have been your favorites? How similar are most of your characters to you?
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(crossposted to !rpg@ttrpg.network)
I like all sorts of characters. I’ve yet to find a class I don’t enjoy playing. That said, my absolute favorites tend to be high-charisma types and blow-stuff-up casters.
Mechanically, my favorite character was my first ever TTRPG character: A half-drow draconic sorcerer in DND 5E. I focused a lot on fire spells and damage. Like I said, I love blowing stuff up. Plus I just think the fantasy of being innately magical is cool.
Roleplay-wise, my favorites have been my tabaxi swashbuckler rogue and my aasimar celestial warlock (DND 5E and 5.5E, respectively). The former was a pretty selfish guy who gradually became a better person as he grew to care about the party, and the latter started off as a magical cop who slowly started to realize that all the authorities she’d trusted were corrupt. Sadly, both campaigns fizzled before they could complete their arcs, but they were still a blast to play.
Some of my characters are a lot like me, while others are nothing like me at all. My first character, the aforementioned sorcerer, was more or less a self-insert because I was new to roleplaying and thought I should test the waters with something easy. By contrast, the aforementioned rogue, who was my second ever character, was someone I created specifically to be extremely different from me because I wanted a challenge. Most of my other characters have been somewhere in the middle of the “nothing like me” to “me irl” spectrum. (Although I’m currently playing another self-insert, just because I hadn’t done so in Pathfinder before and thought it might be fun. She’s a kitsune grandeur champion with the draconic sorcerer archetype. Yes, I WILL make and play a fox-dragon self-insert OC and there is nothing you can do about it. I may be cringe, but I am free.) For example, my warlock had pretty similar morals to mine, but she was much more naive and less confrontational than me.
So yeah. Tell me about your characters!
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(crossposted to !rpg@ttrpg.network)
I like all sorts of characters. I’ve yet to find a class I don’t enjoy playing. That said, my absolute favorites tend to be high-charisma types and blow-stuff-up casters.
Mechanically, my favorite character was my first ever TTRPG character: A half-drow draconic sorcerer in DND 5E. I focused a lot on fire spells and damage. Like I said, I love blowing stuff up. Plus I just think the fantasy of being innately magical is cool.
Roleplay-wise, my favorites have been my tabaxi swashbuckler rogue and my aasimar celestial warlock (DND 5E and 5.5E, respectively). The former was a pretty selfish guy who gradually became a better person as he grew to care about the party, and the latter started off as a magical cop who slowly started to realize that all the authorities she’d trusted were corrupt. Sadly, both campaigns fizzled before they could complete their arcs, but they were still a blast to play.
Some of my characters are a lot like me, while others are nothing like me at all. My first character, the aforementioned sorcerer, was more or less a self-insert because I was new to roleplaying and thought I should test the waters with something easy. By contrast, the aforementioned rogue, who was my second ever character, was someone I created specifically to be extremely different from me because I wanted a challenge. Most of my other characters have been somewhere in the middle of the “nothing like me” to “me irl” spectrum. (Although I’m currently playing another self-insert, just because I hadn’t done so in Pathfinder before and thought it might be fun. She’s a kitsune grandeur champion with the draconic sorcerer archetype. Yes, I WILL make and play a fox-dragon self-insert OC and there is nothing you can do about it. I may be cringe, but I am free.) For example, my warlock had pretty similar morals to mine, but she was much more naive and less confrontational than me.
So yeah. Tell me about your characters!
No matter what I try, I always end up playing Swashbucklers. I just can’t help myself.
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I usually play ranged martials. In 5e, is was basically exclusively rangers, and in AD&D2 it was a ranged fighter. I’ve always kind of played fairly timidly, trying to stay back, kite enemies, and avoid actually taking hits.
I’ve only gotten to play PF2 as a GM. My table only has 2 players, so I have a GMPC tagging along with the party. I wanted someone explicitly defensive in nature, so I originally spec’d them as a Champion. It wasn’t the best fit for who the character was supposed to be – they weren’t devote, and they weren’t in any way magical – but I made it work. When the Guardian playtest launched, I respeced him immediately.
Guardian has been a real breath of fresh air for me. Since the GMPC is there to be a meat shield, and because I’m not especially attached to him, using the Guardian as a mobile interceptor has been a lot of fun, even as I do everything to make sure he exists solely to shine the other players. Also, GMing has really helped me deal with my hesitation to get into the fray – the NPC monsters exist to be killed, and I’m happy to put them in positions to be killed.
If I ever get to a PF2 table where I’m just a player, I’m absolutely rolling another Guardian. Especially with the buffs that came with it’s official release. A utility defender is scratching an itch I didn’t know I had.
