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Crawl! New Class Challenge! Draft Picks! (Pick the best!)

Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 9:42 am
by reverenddak
Top 4 or 5 classes (space permitting) will be picked to be featured in an upcoming issue of Crawl!

Fans will contribute a version of the class they like the best, and the community will vote to see which version makes the zine!

Simple! I think...?

The 10 choices I picked were pretty arbitrary but seem to be the most popular. A few picks may be redundant (to some) but that's part of the challenge to make them stand out from the four "human" classes. Also the class names aren't final, e.g. Anti-paladin/Dark Knight or Paladin/Holy Warrior or Monk/Martial Artist. I'll let the contributors and the community make the call. But I'm pretty sure the old-schoolies, such as myself, will stick to traditional names... plus the focus for this challenge is Classic Classes...

Vote for 4.

I also decided that demi-human variants and Monsterous Classes can warrant their own issue, so I've left them out of this.

Feel free to campaign in this thread!

You can also change your vote if you feel inclined.

Poll will be open until Monday, Aug 13th!

Re: Crawl! New Class Challenge! Draft Picks! (Pick the best!

Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 10:09 am
by Pesky
Cool! Thanks for putting up the poll. I'm pushing for the Gnome, Paladin, Anti-Paladin, and Ranger.

Re: Crawl! New Class Challenge! Draft Picks! (Pick the best!

Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 10:11 am
by sheriffharry
Go for the GNOME!!!!

Re: Crawl! New Class Challenge! Draft Picks! (Pick the best!

Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 10:49 am
by Colin
I went for Gnome, Half-Orc, Monk, and Psionicist.

Re: Crawl! New Class Challenge! Draft Picks! (Pick the best!

Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 10:51 am
by Colin
reverenddak wrote:Also the class names aren't final, e.g. Anti-paladin/Dark Knight.
For what it's worth, EGG always stated that an Anti-Paladin class should be called an "Avenger" (which is much better than Anti-Paladin, and is also a nice nod to the Chaotic path Fighters could take in BECMI D&D).

Colin

Re: Crawl! New Class Challenge! Draft Picks! (Pick the best!

Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 10:55 am
by reverenddak
Colin wrote:I went for Gnome, Half-Orc, Monk, and Psionicist.
So did I!

Re: Crawl! New Class Challenge! Draft Picks! (Pick the best!

Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 11:57 am
by Flexi
A nice range of choices there but I voted for Paladin/Anti-Paladin, Bard and Monk, mostly down to fond memories of those things in my old 1st ed PHB (well, not Anti-Paladin, that was not in it!).
It would be nice to see a Paladin class with different alignment paths like the Thief in DCC.

Re: Crawl! New Class Challenge! Draft Picks! (Pick the best!

Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 1:23 pm
by raskal
My vote : half-elf, half-orc, gnome and Ranger (to compare with my own Ranger Class)
But i will like to have all of them :mrgreen:

Re: Crawl! New Class Challenge! Draft Picks! (Pick the best!

Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 1:42 pm
by reverenddak
Raskal, I'd like to see your Ranger submitted for Ranger (if it gets voted!)

I can totally see the Paladin/Avenger being the same class, a Holy Warrior, but of different alignment paths!

Re: Crawl! New Class Challenge! Draft Picks! (Pick the best!

Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 5:51 pm
by GnomeBoy
Can I vote for myself more than once? :mrgreen:

Re: Crawl! New Class Challenge! Draft Picks! (Pick the best!

Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 6:49 pm
by Karaptis
Anti paladin and psionicist. I forgot the other two in my drunken folly.

Re: Crawl! New Class Challenge! Draft Picks! (Pick the best!

Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 7:56 pm
by GnomeBoy
Karaptis wrote:Anti paladin and psionicist. I forgot the other two in my drunken folly.
The little x's by your selections will be visible when you sober up... 8)

Re: Crawl! New Class Challenge! Draft Picks! (Pick the best!

Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 11:02 pm
by Karaptis
Monk and druid. That was some good Ommegang brew! :mrgreen:

Re: Crawl! New Class Challenge! Draft Picks! (Pick the best!

Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2012 3:34 am
by sheriffharry
Wow the vote is really split right now!

That can only mean one thing: we'll need ANNUAL new classes CRAWL! issues.

Go Gnome!

Re: Crawl! New Class Challenge! Draft Picks! (Pick the best!

Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2012 4:03 am
by Colin
reverenddak wrote:
Colin wrote:I went for Gnome, Half-Orc, Monk, and Psionicist.
So did I!
Yeah, it's a good selection, and as far as the classes go, I felt they offered a lot more potential for "things we haven't already seen", than some of the other choices.

Colin

Re: Crawl! New Class Challenge! Draft Picks! (Pick the best!

Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2012 6:22 am
by reverenddak
Wow! I'm really surprised by the performance of the paladin and the bard. Aren't they the most hated to play in almost every edition of D&D?

Go gnome!

Re: Crawl! New Class Challenge! Draft Picks! (Pick the best!

Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2012 12:20 pm
by Vanguard
Bards are incredible. People just expect them to cast, thieve, and fight better than the more focused classes. What makes them special is that they can do all three well. In 5-person party, they support all of the other roles; in a 3-4 person party they fill gaps; in a 1-2 person party, they're a a liability.

Re: Crawl! New Class Challenge! Draft Picks! (Pick the best!

Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2012 5:33 pm
by Karaptis
Cmon there has to be some bad guys out there who want play with my Auntie Paladin!

Re: Crawl! New Class Challenge! Draft Picks! (Pick the best!

Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2012 5:34 pm
by Karaptis
Vanguard wrote:Bards are incredible. People just expect them to cast, thieve, and fight better than the more focused classes. What makes them special is that they can do all three well. In 5-person party, they support all of the other roles; in a 3-4 person party they fill gaps; in a 1-2 person party, they're a a liability.
See also Dorkness Rising! "How much different could they be?"

Re: Crawl! New Class Challenge! Draft Picks! (Pick the best!

Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2012 6:23 pm
by Raven_Crowking
@RevDak: Would my half-class idea for multi-classing work for this issue, do you think? If so, what is my deadline?

Thanks!

Re: Crawl! New Class Challenge! Draft Picks! (Pick the best!

Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2012 4:44 am
by Vanguard
I went with Bard, Half-Orc, Monk, and Gnome.

Re: Crawl! New Class Challenge! Draft Picks! (Pick the best!

Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2012 6:18 am
by sheriffharry
Go Gnome!
48 hrs left!

Re: Crawl! New Class Challenge! Draft Picks! (Pick the best!

Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2012 10:05 pm
by GnomeBoy
Just got back from camping, and while out in the woods had a brainstorm about how to make a Gnome class for DCC. Glad to see it is very much in the running. :D

Re: Crawl! New Class Challenge! Draft Picks! (Pick the best!

Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2012 1:23 am
by bholmes4
Really wanted to see what someone could do with the Psionicist. Not a huge fan of the class but it's never been done well in my opinion. Would love to see someone take a stab at it anyway.

Re: Crawl! New Class Challenge! Draft Picks! (Pick the best!

Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2012 4:57 am
by sheriffharry
The OFFICIAL results of the poll will be revealed today!!

Go Gnome!
Go Paladin!!