"#the Les Amis RPG Character sheets just BOOM there" Can you please tell us what class each of the Amis would be?
HAH okay fun! I’m assuming you mean D&D classes specifically? Note that I’m working more off the spirit and rough general proficiency for all the classes here, rather than looking for exact feats and stats (if anyone tries to bring Math into this I will pretend I did not see it) and going from Les Mis canon setting and info– in a high-fantasy D&Desque setting I think there’d be some tweaking, but this is what we’ve got here! (and I fully expect and invite Debate, especially from people who play a lot of D&D):
Enjolras: Paladin. It’s awkward because Courfeyrac is also (specifically!) a paladin, but that’s just what fits. I’m thinking of mostly 1-3 edition Paladin-type here, but a 5thE Oath of Devotion style would work really well here…
Combeferre: Probably Cleric? On the one hand, definitely Team Healer, and he talks more about religion than nearly anyone else in the book who isn’t specifically ordained or employed by the Church! But with his wide interests , I’m also open to Wizard or nearly any other knowledge-powered Good-aligned class!
Edited: @aporeticelenchus makes this solid argument for the Cleric class for Combeferre:
“The knowledge domain cleric seems like a good fit for Combeferre, or even arcana domain. All the nerdery of wizards with debatably even MORE commitment to learning all the things!“Jean Prouvaire: Bard. Just. Bard. We can talk about special classes and so on but we all know he’s the group bard. Sorry to not have anything more original here but sometimes things are just True.
Feuilly : I’m honestly stumped on this one! We have a good set of combat specifics for Feuilly–he has an eye for battlefield layout, fortification, and probably sharpshooting. Anyone have a suggestion for what would fit that in D&D?
ETA Update: I’ve had several strong suggestions for Artificer Feuilly (specifically Artillerist) , and one for Druid! @aporeticelenchus again:
Besides Artillerist Artificer, other thoughts for Feuilly could be Druid or Oath of the Ancients Paladin. Love of the world without much interest in borders, commitment to kindness and caring, etc. (Feuilly is less interested in nature per se than in the well-being of human kind, but with a few tweaks I think you could get Oath of the Ancients there)
Courfeyrac : Another Paladin! I mean that’s just…there. And it works, with what little detail we have about his fighting and everything we’ve got about him as a character! I like the idea of having Courfeyrac’s cheerful, social version of the Paladin Life in the same party as Enjolras with his Paladin Classic approach :D
Bahorel: Some people are going to expect me to say Barbarian. And maybe I would, if D&D Barbarians were more Fafhrd and less Conan, but they are what they are, and that’s not what Bahorel is. Yes, Bahorel is absolutely one of the team’s Fighters, but what are his real main skills , according to the narrative and his fellow party members? His people skills, his knowledge of the city, his sense of humor, and– by Omniscient Narrative Decree!– words that break everything. His core traits are INT and CHA, not CON and STR.
…He’s a Swashbuckler.
Bossuet: …Also Bard.
People will want to fight me on this and I Welcome It, but listen! While Legle is to all appearances a competent fighter, his main role and contribution in battle is keeping up others’ spirits, and mocking and demoralizing the enemy (…to whatever extent that matters). And definitely the entire rest of his life is heavily built around his verbal and narrative skillset! So yeah, I’m calling Bard on this one.
Joly: Definitely a Cleric, maybe an Apothecary-type specialty?
ETA: there has been a good suggestion from @subsequentibis that Joly would work as an Artificer Alchemist? :i would put joly as an alchemist artificer! they’re pretty decent healers and they get a homunculus which has all kinds of Humorous Potential. although he blows his daily spell slots on ‘purify food and drink’ all the time
Grantaire: …Commoner. With a Sleep feat. SORRY GRANTAIRE try joining the big dramatic adventure-party scene next time!!
(Suggestions have also been made for him being a Bard , but the Worst Bard, which does have potential…)
@aporeticelenchus also suggests:
Not an Amis, but Marius kept inefficiently multiclassing for several levels because he couldn’t decide what to play. He finally ended up stuck with barbarian. (I assume, judging by barricade events. Marius entered a Rage early on and never stopped; survived because of half-damage from all attacks.)
