Even if you hate Bards, you gotta at least try Deekin in SOU. He is quite funny!!!

Not only a Bard, but a Kobold Bard at that. Oh, well, gotta give'em points for originality.

DruD!!! The druids really own the other classes. With spells like: Advanced stone skin , energy buffer. Then you are imune to everything ( almost ) Then cast Harm an then finger o death . Killz everything. Did so on the Great Red Dragon in the Fire Giant Lair ( forgot the name ) Harm did: 772 Dmg (may be wrong it i rememer it to be so much) then finger of death finished him off. 2 attacks an no injury.. simple huh... Yeah but not so fun but it is the ultimat character =)!!!

paladins are too...stuffy for me to roleplay
unless the module is build for them that is

bards i dont like much either, mostly cuz of how they were implemented - in BG2 for example bards were cool.

Monks are great! I never cared for Bards much either myself. Probably because they are the opposite of my real-life personality (I am not a performer by any stretch of the imagination). I can identify with Monks, Paladins and Rangers, but like Wizards and Sorcs too.
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The coolest moment for my monk had to be in the Source Stone Sanct in Ch.4 fighting two dragons with no henchman and no weapons, just my fists and feet- and killing them!

the Monk. such a boring class...you just run around punching and kicking everything without ever changing weapons or armor(at least your not "supposed" to), ugh.

<font color="orange">Standard, hmm, hard to tell. I don't play druids much, but that's because I'm a dual-class kind of guy. I would probably say wizards, just because I love the sorcerer too much as an arcane spellcaster. Maybe fighter, because its options seem so limited. I mean, you go fighter(4) or fighter all the way (I've played both.) It's tons of fun to get the feats though, so that really wouldn't be my most hated. Go for wizard.

Prestige: Harper Scout. Who is responsible for this? Please, put in Blade, Kensai, Bounty Hunter, put in the damn Beastmaster from BG2...just not this.</font>