Great article...

[Monte Carlo]

http://io9.com/the-24-most-embarrassing-dungeons-dragons-character-1524448977

 

My favourite?

 

'Beggar' - must be chaotic and take cold resistance trait. Blew claret through my nose.

[Stun]

There are a few here that I got a chuckle out of:

 

16) Ghetto Fighter

 

NO. JUST NO. Another completely insane and needless Dwarf specialty class, which included the following lines in its description:" The Ghetto Fighter never forgets his lowly origins and may harbor resentments against dwarves who are better off. However, he stays true to his roots, and will try to better the lives of ghetto children."

An O.G. Representin' in the 'hood. lol

 

 

24) Urban Druid

 

These members of this 3.5 edition class celebrate nature by… staying as far as hell away from it as possible. Hell, at least the Arctic Druids may occasionally encounter a penguin or something. Clearly this is just a cheat to let players have Druid powers while ignoring everything else about Druids, which I'm kind of down with in principle, but even just typing it sounds completely obnoxious. These guys are the hipsters of the Druid world. "Yeah, I liked nature all right, but then all these other Druids moved out and ruined everything, So I've come to the city to get my head together. Maybe start a band or something."

In other words, Hippies. The 1960s Woodstock type. Edited August 3, 2014 by Stun

[ManifestedISO]

PALADIN OF SLAUGHTER

 

The only art character I recognize there, is Wulfgar, the "barbarian fighter," from Salvatore's original Forgotten Realms books. Crazy how some artists are still to this day, instantly recognizable, Elmore and Caldwell. Jeff Easley was the other period master, and Keith Parkinson, god rest him. 

[aluminiumtrioxid]

Meh, about half of them are basically WFRP classes. Also, someone who thinks a druid has no place in arctic or urban environments clearly knows jack about biology.

[Monte Carlo]

Also, someone who thinks a druid has no place in arctic or urban environments clearly knows jack about biology.

 

Epic Tru-Gaemer response!!!

[Nonek]

I do believe the Beggar class may well have been born from Mr Gygax' novel "Saga of Old City." Gord the Rogue was scraped up off the streets to train under Beggarmaster Theobald, as well as practising acrobatics and such. As I remember the Beggarmaster grew prideful however and his guild was destroyed by the thieves.

[Amentep]

I remember the Mine Rowdy.

 

Wish I knew there was a clown class, though. But I never got the FR supplements.

[ManifestedISO]

Only ten days until 5E Player's Handbook comes out. Don't know if I'll get to play, so much, but reading will be fun.