DM: Chancellor Neighsay starts to leave the room and shut the door behind him, though in that slightly slowed-down way where he's clearly giving you a chance to beg him to stop.
Sandbar (AJ): WAIT!!!
DM: …Neighsay looks at you coldly and expectantly.
Sandbar (AJ): I give the others a quick look.
Yona (FS): …Yona Insight not the greatest.
Sandbar (AJ): You were right, Chancellor. I see that now. I want nothing to do with creatures that can threaten Equestria!
Smolder (RT): What?! YOU get to be the spy, AGAIN?!
Ocellus (TS): First Cozy Glow, now this…?
Gallus (RD): Hey, you see this character sheet? I'M supposed to be the Rogue here!
Sandbar (AJ): I'm the only pony in the room. It's gotta be me.
DM: Gee, I hope you're not arguing in-character…
Gallus (RD): I'm just saying, you're acting awfully sneaky – TWICE now – for a pure Monk.
Sandbar (AJ): Well, I tried punching him and that didn't work! So here we are!
Silverstream (PP): Isn't Gallus also half-Bard?
DM: I'll let Sandbar trade one of his Monk levels for Rogue…
Sandbar (AJ): Not until Level 6.
Story Time! Any stories of ostensibly being one class but constantly falling into the roles and tropes of a different class?
Also, Spudventures took a bit of a break this week, but my friend Xencarn's been streaming his own games, and we're putting them on my channel too! Because why not?
Xencarn presents: Curse of Strahd, Session 1: Video
We had a kobold paladin who was dexterity-based. She ended up being our rogue because she had the Urchin background and was the only one with thieves tools.
Another similar story- had a Dorroc Guardian (both homebrew- but think Fantasy "Motie"-like, and the class was a martial protection-based class) who had the Urchin background, and so ended up being the go-to for lockpicking until we got an artificer in the group.
An opposite story! -- I once had a rogue in a party of murderhoboy tendencies and so in combat they focused on the dps. I often had to pick up the duties of party healer to keep the team in once peace, as well as party face to negotiate with the guards when we inevitable get caught by the city watch in the middle of dispensing indiscriminate justice.
Check out Drew Hayes’s book NPCs. 4 townspeople decide to be adventurers. The guard decides to be a paladin despite the fact that he’s got high Dex and prefers to be in light armor. The gnome dons wizard robes, ignoring his close relationship with a god and high wisdom. The mayor’s daughter will be a rogue, never mind her anger issues and bloodlust. The half-orc must be a barbarian with high intelligence and curiosity about magic. Or will they become the classes to which they are naturally better suited instead?
Dex Paladin dips gunslinger1 and rocks out with ranged smites and two weapon fighting. Hi wis Wizard goes Mystic theruge and has all the spells for days. Anger issues rogue works fine out of the box and enjoys stacking sneak attack and power attack. For High Int magic loving Barbarian.... I got nothing, A second wizard or an Alchemist or Artificer will be much
No, I rarely picked any locks or doors.