What is your favorite class, and what is your favorite book

>>52166663
Martial. I enjoy the idea of an individuals willpower and physicality winning against all odds.

The knight slaying the dragon doesn't make a lot of sense, really, but its a common myth regardless and an appealing one.

Man triumphing over forces primeval via gumption and or moxie. I love it.

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>>52167142

Maybe one hated the other, but this surely resonates with both.

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>>52166663
It's hard to pick a favorite, but one of the best book about wizards I've read is Imajica. It's about a guy in modern day Manhattan who travels across various dimensions to learn who he is. It's beautifully detailed and very, very weird. There's also some fucking insane sex scenes in this book, like when he sleeps with someone who rapidly switches between male and female, or when they consume and flow into each other like an Ouroboros.

Assassins.
Day of the Jackal.

In a lighter setting I'm a big fan of various Dilbert strips as a model for my tech-focused characters.

Ranger, I ain't got any books.
Got a library card from the next town over, anything I should look for?

>>52168397
>I ain't

The Drizzt novels would fit your reading level.

>>52166663
I like mages, wizards, casters, and the like.

I don't know about any favorite books about mages, but I really enjoyed how both Uprooted and The Night Circus dealt with wizardy magic. They're two very different books, each with a different take. Uprooted is a bit more standard, I would say, with spells and magic words and alchemy and such. It has a bit of a fairy tale kind of feel to it. The Night Circus is more sort of "subtly weave magic into your situation over time with complicated and personalized rituals and practices."

>>52168412
Oh, come on. He used perfectly fine grammar and communicated his point just fine. There's no need to look down on his use of a colloquialism (which is becoming more and more commonly used).

>>52168397
Give the First Law trilogy by Joe Abercrombie a shot (The Blade Itself, Before they Are Hanged, Last Argument of Kings). It does the viewpoint switching things, but one of the primary characters is an aging gang of mercenaries who hire themselves out to a more civilized military as scouts.

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>>52166663

>>52168537
All he communicated is that he enjoyed posturing online.

>>52168412

His was clearly a roleplaying post. Do you think a ranger has the grammar of a scholar? Do you think a ranger has read Pynchon, Updike, David Foster Wallace, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Victor Hugo?
Fuck no, a ranger ain't got time for that shit. If a ranger reads at all, he reads Hemingway, Jack London, hell he might even read that master of individualist, fightenist, go-by-your-gut author Louis L'Amour.

>>52168559

I know what class that picture represents in Oblivion.
Whether or not intentional, I see what they did there.

>>52168609
>>52168559
Its the bard class
of course it had to be the bard class

>>52168600
where's the Joyce and the Stirner?

wew.
You sure know how to pull the pretentious card alright.

>>52168737

Hmm, a Stirner influenced ranger (or rogue) character? That's an interesting idea, anon.
Although I'm sure my tablemates would hate me for it.

>>52166663
I've always been a big fan of the 'weird' classes. In the Magic Sneaky Martial set, the wierd would be the transforming druid, kinda a fighter, kinda a mage, kinda a rouge. but never at the same time.

Is why the system i am making has the class system set up as; close (melee, stealth and video game shotguns) medium (rapid fire, utility, and mobility) long (snipers, magic, rauilguns) and weird (Half AI Half Human Space Werewolves).

I got the idea from Hunter x Hunter and it's nen system that included 'specialist' which is just the shit that didn't fit in.

thieves and shakespeare! Leadership knowledge and profession to passively grind

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>>52168270
>one of the best book about wizards I've read is Imajica.
>It's about a guy in modern day Manhattan
>There's also some fucking insane sex scenes in this book, like when he sleeps with someone who rapidly switches between male and female

>>52169053

Would you expect the ultimate wizard novel to be about anything but degeneracy?

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>>52169053
>It's about a guy in modern day Manhattan

I should explain. The book takes place in a multiverse of 5 linked worlds called the "Imajica". Earth is one of them, but has been magically sealed away from the others by a terrible netherworld called the "In Ovo". Wizards are able to cross the In Ovo into the other worlds, and some of these wizards have tried to rejoin Earth back to them, but they are brutally suppressed and killed by a secret society of wizards called the Tabula Rasa.

The main character relearns magic after he has a one night stand with a shapeshifting assassin from the Imajica. They pass through the In Ovo and he gains new companions as he travels through the multiverse. There's a whole bunch of cool freaky shit like a wizard who controls swarms of insects living inside him (a single bite can liquefy a person) and translucent lizard-dogs that hunt in the In Ovo called "Gek-a-Geks". It's a fucking massive book, but has potential for some cool worldbuilding.

Gunslinger
Sir Thursday
Technically the MC of sir thurs wasn't a gunslinger but I'm basing my weapons off of the ones they use in that book

>>52166663
Archer/Assassin

http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/The_Black_Arrow,_Book_I

http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/The_Black_Arrow,_Book_II

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>>52166663
Thrallherd.

The pathfinder third party.

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>>52166663
Warlock.
But I do not know the books about them, except for part of the stories of Lovecraft.

>>52166663
let's pretend I said mage

elminster: the making of a mage