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My favorite ones are Maid characters, sadly.

One of them was an quiet elf eared vampire who was a candidate for a Call of Cthulhu setting Maid game, but was passed up (most likely because of the vampire characteristic). She would have been a blast to play, because I would have thrown all of the traditional vampire flaws on her except the corpse and ugliness part (she's in an anime; the worst she can be is cute sweatdrop ).

The other one, my absolute favorite, was a Sexy/Pure succubus cat-girl who was short and totally clueless about sexuality, yet had the Power of Friendship. To make matters even funnier, she was working for her master for business - due to her cluelessness, said business would have been equivalent to a girl who works at a grocery store (Treading Ground's grocery store excluded). The kicker? She was completely rolled up by an automated roller. I picked out nothing for her but her name.

Ya know... when it comes to 4th Ed,
My initial feelings about it was that it blew the hardest chunks of anything I'd ever played.
However the more I play it, the more I enjoy it.
I'm at the point now where it's tolerable.

The only class I've played that I've actually enjoyed playing,
was the Warlord.
Though this is because I like to play support classes.
And I tell ya...
nothing makes a teammate smile harder than when you say to him.
"Tell ya what, Instead of me attacking, you my friend... Mr. Fighter with the big "******** OFF!" sword...
You can attack for me, and while your at it... add +5 to everything.
Go ahead, this rounds on me."

I play mainly Pathfinder now,
I believe it to be superior to any other system.
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Though my honest opinion about 4th Ed...

4th Ed should be used to introduce people into table top Role playing.
and then once they feel like they've got the hang of it,
they should move to 3.5 or Pathfinder.
(probably pathfinder first, since you won't have to re-learn 3.5 if you do that)

But I'm glad to hear that you found stuff that works for you.
I have the same feelings about Bards.
Once I discovered them, I found MY CLASS.

I've dabbled around in a few other games...

Shadowrun
World of Darkness,

I even played some Role Master.
Pathfinder is still my favorite.

Same, though I simply haven't bothered to pick up the D&D line again. For that matter, most systems I play now are those you can pretty much pick up and run within 15 minutes or less. Tells you how much time my group(s) have to play, doesn't it?

Oh, I got another one! I always wanted to play a Russian immigrant in Deadlands who was a Huckster and was working as a spy for the North.

I had a player play a soulknife Rogue once,
It was gestalt.
She enjoyed herself.