What's everyone's first character gonna be?

If it's a one shot, lizardfolk champion fighter.

If a short campaign, drow berserker barb

Anything longer would be a pally or bard.

But alas, I am forever DM, so these will just be NPCs.

Depends on the rest of the class previews (and my read through of the actual book) but based on current info I'm most interested in Warlock and Ranger at the moment.

I want to play a Thief.

My first character growing up was a ranger with an animal companion. It's become something of a tradition to remake that character in each system that I've tried since. I'm quite looking forward to that this time around.

Outside of that, I'm real curious about building a World Tree Barbarian/ Battle Master (or champion) fighter multiclass. That sounds real fun.

Gonna keep playing monk, but I'm curious about what they'll do with the ranger.

Archfey warlock. I am going build it like corvo from dishonored. Probably going to take human for the second feat.

Monk - butt kicking for goodness!

Here is my stack rank of classes in interested in playing:

Bard > Paladin > Warlock > Rogue > Ranger > Cleric > Fighter > Barb > Druid > Wizard > Sorc > Monk

Knowing the groups I'm in I'll probably end up as a Warlock or a Barb but we shall see. I'm excited about the new Warlock and possibly playing a melee warlock although I haven't read anything just watched all the videos.

I want to do a Vengeance Paladin, remaking my first real 5e character. But the context may change that choice.

Human Fighter, longsword and shield, heavy armour.

Eladrin archfey bladelock with agonizing blast on booming blade

Moon druid rat assasin, perma rat form, bite them to death, tank motherfucker 18ac 2d8+2d6*2 damage on a nibble.

Sooo many good choises. I think I may go for a world tree barbarian, between the weapon masteries and the subclass I think it would be a fun and somewhat complex experience which I mostly found previously in casters.

If i get a chance to play and it just DM:

Halfling Land Druid. He’s a Middle Aged potato farmer that is a kind and compassionate sort. Always willing to help, he’s the guy the villagers took their livestock to see when they were sick, took their kids to see when they got hurt playing, asked advice from on their crops, and went to when the local wildlife got a little too close for comfort.

Also, just to pick up a bushel of his award winning potatoes.

Path of the World Tree Barbarian nordic viking style human build. Absolutely. Have not played a barbarian in a very long time.

Bardlock. Always bardlock.

I might go for a druid.

But likely I won't get to play any time soon anyway

Ranger Beastmaster TWF. I will finally be able to wield two weapons and fight alongside my boar companion.

Int-based Arcane Trickster using True Strike (flavoured as telekinesis)

I'll either rely on my trusty Kenku rogue shinobi, or I'll try making a monk to try out the new martial die

Wanna see if the wild magic table is less shit

Goliath World Tree Barbarian

World Tree barb, but I'm reflavoring everything to be more cosmic planar/dimension hopping theme. Nothing against the world tree lore, it's just not my favorite personally.

Land/Sea Druid or War/Trickery Cleric, super excited for the new Wisdom casters with the new customisable options and spells. Very excited for the new Warlock and Sorcerer also but have played both extensively in 5e whereas Cleric and Druid I’ve never played past level 7.

I'm going to roll stats in order and pick that way, they all look so cool.

As I'll be DMing when the new PHB comes out, it will probably be a while before I get to play a character.

That being said, I do help my wife to create her characters, and she will be playing a Tabaxi healer Bard.

Forever dm I dont get to make characters ;_;

Always paladin

Shadowmonk x with gloomstalker 3 dip.

A champion x with hunter lvl 3 - retaliator would be fun. Get pam/sentinel. First turn reaction would activate the reactionary attack from pam, and subsequent turns reaction attack would be retaliatory.

Right now I'm really into the idea of an Fey Bladelock bamfing around the field of battle with a fancy sword and dumping all my other resources into social skills.

Either that or a Mercy Monk depending on the group composition.

Technically I'm already playing a fiend warlock from the last playtest and it seems to be mostly the same.

Eldritch knight is my absolute favorite subclass and I really want to play a new version with the new fighter rules and the improvements to EK. I'm playing a 2014 EK right now with a multiclass in War Wizard, but the new version makes me want to play it pure since cantrips replace attacks and there's no spell school restriction.

But my first new character just may be a thief rogue with a whip. I made a whip rogue idea before that used a fighter dip for proficiency in whips and maneuvers and slasher feat so I can slow, trip, and disarm. The new rogue gets whips (if the same as the playtest) and can do all that now with weapon mastery and cunning strike (minus the disarming now). The idea is to be an near untouchable skirmisher in melee by tripping, slowing, and dashing away with slight reach.

World Tree Barbarian!

The best way to 'draw aggro' is support in 5e. World Tree does that great to be a true defender. It feels a bit like Artillerist Artificer actually, which I also love

Hoping to try out the Land Druid or a Ranger subclass maybe Beastmaster.

I'm planning on making a Frost Goliath World Tree Barbarian. The changes to Goliath are just so cool, and the World Tree path might be my new favorite Barbarian subclass. I played this character for a one-shot during the playtests, and he was so much fun. The Frost Giant perk of basically having Ray of Frost on your melee attacks makes (PB times per long rest) combined with the reach and pushing/toppling of Battering Roots made it so that enemies couldn't get away OR move towards my allies. Such a fun character.

Human. Fighter. Longsword.

I'd have to sit down properly and go through each class. But right now, it's either Barbarian, druid, or warlock. I'd have to look back on monk because that does interest me, and I'd like to see how ranger turns out.

My biggest shock right now is my interest in druid, and it's mostly because I am interested in the circle of the sea. I also think that Barbarian is sitting really comfortably now, and my typical playstyle is being the party frontliner.

Of course, I also have no issues with filling in the gaps in a party. No one wants to tank? I gotcha. No healers? I gotcha. No wizard in the party? Well, you know, not every party needs a wizard.

A rerun of my first 5e character; human PAM Battle master.

I'm thinking of trying an arcanaloth-based yugoloth-liniage tiefling, who's an arcane trickster. I already had the idea for a fox arcane trickster but before I was having him be mechanically a changling, but even though it's kinda a nerf to myself I like that he'll be more real as a kitsune person

AT with a 3 dip in hunter.

same as you always retaliating but im here for the sneak attack

Currently trying to hype up my players to take up the dm mantle when the phb drops so I can play an Archfey Warlock

Goliath champion fighter

GOO Warlock who is in a pact with Dendar the Night Serpent.

Probably a Monk

My ongoing campaign is going to switch over, so my current character, a Mountain Dwarf Rune Knight Fighter, will technically be my first but I am really intrigued by the World Tree Barbarian or a Berserker Barbarian since they no longer suck. Even Champion Fighter seems a little more interesting. As for race, almost certainly a dwarf. ROCK AND STONE! (EDIT: Spelling Error)

If they make Dragon Sorcerer something, I actually wanna touch then that all day every day, but if not, whatever way of warlock, I gotta play to get that dope ass looking sphinx fused with wizard dunamancy space related spells . I wish I could get circle of the stars for the starry form somehow in there with the constellation stuff but oh well maybe Aasimar flavoring could cover that instead.

Great Old One Warlock! Love the new changes to the subclass, that and the changes to the Pacts makes it waaaay easier to play a martial-warlock without needing hexblade.

Macche’s is a halfling raised by a high-end mafia family built by their hold on great cuisine and food production, all hiding the secret that their food & power are sourced through the worship of a Great Old One. Macche can thus keep his GOO-connection, have cool psychic weapons, still be assassin-esque, and have spells!

In base 5e, he was pretty much just soul-knife, which did the job well for secret assassin but lost alot of the mechanical flavor for GOO, since it just didn’t feel worth it investing into it when the first subclass level was just “congrats, at-will telepathy when higher soul-knife pretty much gives that too” lol

Warlock.

There's no specific reason, I've always just liked warlocks

Warlock hundred percent. I love the changes a lot and I love how more subclasses are viable. That being said, if I had to pick another class and subclass it’d be glamour bard.

Way of mercy Monk --excited for Monk changes and want to revisit an old character. They were also way of mercy, but I looked how the unearthed arcana version played more than the live version, so I'm hoping for some tweaks

Ranger 3 Gloom Stalker/Rogue 3 Assassin/Fighter 3 Battle Master because I hate everything and everyone and nobody gets to have fun

feylock

Eldritch Knight fighter looks amazing. I wish you could cast your level 3 spells and make attacks on the same turn but you're probably using the level 3 slot for haste anyway.

Also pact of the blade Archfey warlock looks like a ton of fun. Maybe multi class with EK Fighter to Eldritch blast while teleporting and hitting with a weapon. On the same turn.

All of the Fighters honestly but specifically?

Psi Warrior

I know the subclass didn't change much but that subclass sounds super fun and ESPECIALLY so with the buffs to the class itself

Rank of what I want to play in order (I’ve always played spellcasters but I want to try the new system with martials):

Rogue > Barb > Monk > Ranger > Warlock > Sorc > Druid > Bard > Fighter > Paladin > Cleric > Wizard

For Sorc and Bard I love them but I’ve played them too recently to want to play them again so soon. Fighter, Pali, Cleric, and Wizard have always thematically been classes that interest me less than the others.

I want to try the Thief Rogue, the World Tree Barbarian, any of the Monks, and any of the Rangers THEN I’ll probably go back to spellcasters.

I LOVE Warlocks so I’ll certainly try them first out of the spellcasters I’m sure. All of the subclasses look so cool and they’ll probably continue to be my comfort food class.

A monk

Updated version of my current char.

First properly new char, assuming playtest can be relied upon, will be a world tree barbarian "goliath" reflavored as a Groot inspired medium sized treant who can turn large at 5th level. Both stone, hill and cloud works as ancestry.

Either a warlock or wizard sounds extremely fun, illusionist and great old one. Their features are going to be super fun and extremely versatile, and with the expanded spell list of the new PHB i'm going to have many tools to cook (literally in the case of Tasha's bubbling cauldron)

Archfey Bladelock because it was really fun as a Baldurs Gate 3 character, and the Misty Escape features in PHB24 seem even more available.

I'm playing a Monk in a long-running game, so I'm going to ask my DM if I can upgrade them to the new 2024 rules.

An Ardling Bard, College of Dance

With each new reveal vid im hyped for like 3 different builds. My sweet sweet Ranger comes tomorrow tho, so im holding off on deciding until then.

I love rangers, thematically, ive been waiting a very long to to, hopefully, love them mechanically.

Tortle sea druid

Celestial warlock all the way probablywith pact of chain invocation with the new sphinx option as well as blade invocation

Definitely a warlock because the one thing stopping me from playing a warlock was that you didn't get enough invocations for the build I wanted.

Forever DM here, but damn I would have loved the Archfey Lock when 5e launched XD (The DM of that game would ahve hated it though :P)

Probably once they have discussed all the classes, I might have an answer.

My favorite class has always been Warlock, so definitely that.

No idea - warlock was my favorite class - so I need more information to see how it comes out.

Monk for sure!

Either a Barbarian | Warlock or a Fighter | Warlock, but Monk may come in from the top rope.

I will be running a short campaign once the PHB officially drops, while our primary DM preps our long form campaign once the DMG drops.

When the long campaign starts, I'm running an Arcane Trickster Rogue. He desperately wants to be a famous adventurer so when he pick-pockets people he will leave behind a calling card....maybe a few of them, he's not really settled on what his signature is just yet and it's important not to get these things wrong if you want to be famous one day. And his mage hand is going to be spending most of his time writing his tell all autobiography, while the Rogue dictates an embellished narration of what's going on. A character somewhat similar in style to a Professor Gilderoy Lockhart from Harry Potter.

I'm very intrigued by the idea of cunning strike turning Rogues into a more support focused role in combat while trying to maximize your build for off turn sneak attacks. I think Arcane Trickster offers the most utility via spellcasting and I love the idea of being able to trip 2 targets at once with mage hand. Hopefully the class performs better at the table than it seems to on paper, but I think it'll be fun regardless

Warlock I think

I want to play an artificer battle smith and see how backwards compatible it is. I imagine the artificer needs buffing like all the phb classes are seeming to get, but I want to experience how some of the new feats interact with the 5e chassis, make some notes on if and where I'd add things like weapon mastery in the leveling progression.

Outside of that, Sea Druid looked interesting to figure out a melee druid with Warden. Archfey warlock if the invocations have some interesting new stuff. Also curious to see what the new totems in Wild Heart Barb are, and if there are any that look really fun.

Like every edition the monk is my way of life

Magic Initiate: Primal isn't a thing anymore since they got rid of universal spell lists.

Probably going to be updating one of the characters I'm already playing into the new ruleset, though the one I'm most excited to get to use is a strength-based warforged monk/barbarian multiclass. Rage's damage reduction means I should proc the retaliation damage from Deflect Attacks almost every round. I'm a little disappointed that Barbarians lost the advantage they got on grapple and shove checks, because that was a big part of why I originally chose to do the multiclass, but the benefits of weapon mastery feel like they outweigh it a bit.

I'm curious to see if Monks are going to be getting any kind of control ability with their unarmed strikes or monk weapons, because that's pretty much the only thing it feels like they're missing from the last playtest.

My group has been experimenting with onednd rules for a short campaign, and a one shot. I’ve been playing a champion fighter for the short campaign, and it’s pretty fun so far, I think it’s awesome that melee characters have these weapon mastery options to give them some extra battlefield control.

I’ll be playing a moon druid, going for a kind of werewolf angle within my friends “bloodborne-esque” world and I’m very much looking forward to the wild shape changes, especially with moon druid

I really want to try the new monk or the Great Old One Warlock. But the Barbs sound really fun too. Generally, I enjoy playing cleric, but I don't know how they will shake out with the new update. Will have to wait and see.

I'll probably be DM-ing for the first 2 years realistically.

With that being said, if I get a chance to play, I'll probably go for a Goliath or Human Fighter. I have way too many builds rolling around in my head to choose just one at this point. I'll put the builds that are currently at the forefront of my mind.

Psi Warrior Build- Stone Giant Ancestry, Magic Initiate Druid Shillelagh/Magic Stone for an Int-Primary Psi Warrior . The Psionics would be re-flavored as Ancient Runic Giant Magic. At level 4, I might take Spell Sniper if that ends up effecting Magic Stone and increase its range to 120 feet, if not, then I'd take either Resilient Int (for the +1 bonus to Int bringing us to 18; the saving throw prof is alright), or the Telekinetic Feat (if available; reflavored as my character kicking the earth and the other person moving Earthbending Style). One of the issues I've always had with Giant-themed characters is the lack of rock chucking. Magic Stone is the fix, though Sling Mastery could also be used and just flavored away. Shillelagh + Telekinetic Thrust is 2d8+10 (at max Int). With the Tactical Master, I can Push or Topple, and with Telekinetic Thrust I can Push or knock Prone. This build is ultimately just bullying people around with 3 different Shove mechanics. Ranged Rock attacks. It's still a Fighter at heart and just a Juggernaut of a warrior who masters the Earth via Stone Giant Magic.

Champion Build- Test out new Champion w/ Human for Lucky and Savage Attacker. Weapon Toggling between Maul and Greataxe for maximum crit chance (Topple into Cleave for 3 chances to crit with 1 of those chances potentially being at advantage or 19% crit chance). Take Great Weapon Master at level 4 and see how often I can proc the bonus action attack from crit-ing. Savage Attacker might not be as good, but when you crit rerolling the crit is very powerful (especially since you apply GWF to both). I went Human instead of Orc because I wanted Lucky for the choice advantage throughout the day.

I’ve got seven characters ready and counting. With backgrounds, builds and everything. Only thing that’s missing is the money to hire Gustavo Pelissari and have them all illustrated.

Which one I’ll use first will depend on the campaign and what strikes my fancy at the time, but they’re all pretty much melee frontliners.

I was 100% set on Land Druid but tbh now Arcane Trickster looks appealing and so does Goolock and Archeey! It’s criminal how much they’ve improved some of these classes/subclasses

I'm waiting for my Wild magic Sorcerer

Just fyi there is no magic initiate primal. Towards the end of the play tests they got rid of the arcane, divine and primal spell lists and all classes returned to class specific lists. So that would be magic initiate druid.

Aasimar celestial Warlock

Definitely trying out the new Warlock or Monk as soon as I can. Probably Warlock first since I already have a solid idea for a Fey warlock and the subclass looks hella rad.

Warlock (either Archfey or GOO depending on the context). 

I think the lowest effort one for me will be the monk, seems like there's a pretty clear cut way to build and play that class so I'm curious what their packaged on rails experience will be. I'm also just flat out curious how much of a buff they would give to one of the weakest classes in 5e.

On the otherside, if I want to get super into the weeds, I would probably try out Druid or Warlock which seem the most changed and the most appealing to me.

I can't decide between warlock with pact of blade and eldritch knight right now.

The whole gish concept is really appealing and seems to be more fleshed out in one dnd.

Though I am still weary, that martials get stiffed in the end.

Dancer Bard with a bit of Arch Fey Warlock.

If the new true strike cantrip holds up, I might do a draconic or clockwork sorcerer. I always wanted to do a single-classed sorcerer gish type character.

Also interested in playing a new psi warrior fighter. The new fighter chassis sounds really cool and a telekinetic weapons master sounds really fun for a battlefield control type fighter.

I’m going to want to look at the PHB first.

Halfling Wildheart Barbarian, I've already made a mini :)

Got a campaign going atm and I think we are going to transfer it over, so red dragonborn Arcane Archer fighter with a heavy crossbow (DM waved the bow only restriction).

With AA not being included it'll just be the new fighter stuff, so I can't imagine there will be a massive change.

But as for new characters I've got a few made up already so I'm going to revamp them, seeing if all my ideas still work or if something else works better, but I'm going to need the books to properly read everything myself.

Feywanderer is currently my favourite subclass so I'm excited to see the changes to the ranger and that subclass if there is any.

The videos and write ups are good but to get a feel for the mechanics I need to read it myself

I'm leaning celestial warlock species yet to be decided

We're starting a new campaign next week with the intent of switching to PHB 2024 in September.

I'm gonna be a Moon Druid.

1 rouge into 3 trickery cleric into 4 more rouge picking up arcane trickster and cunning strike going back for 2 cleric for lvl 3 spells and the feat and the last 10 lvls as arcane trickster.

Otherwise 3 arcane trickster into GoO warlock for invisible still spell bonus action mage hand shenanigans and extra attack.

Aasimar World Tree Barbarian and Human Circle of the Sea Druid.

I already have two campaigns line up for September (fingers crossed they actually pan out.)

I'm a Ranger player, but none of the subclasses really speak to me. I've already played the ones I want to play and the others just don't evoke anything out of me. I might see about porting my old Horizon Walker into the new Ranger chassis though.

Probably a Land Druid? Magician Land Druid gives me a Naruto Ninja vibe with so much magic and likely a good chunk of the elemental spells, so I'll probably go with that.

I'm kinda stuck between two ideas at the moment.

The first is a Crystal Dragonborn Path of the World Tree Barbarian who is descended from the Guardian Wyrm of Yggdrasil, and on a mission to recover one of his ancestor's stolen eggs.

The second is a half-Tiefling Pact of the Blade Celestial Warlock who's backstory is one that I don't have a quick summary of yet. XP

Moon Druid, the new rules looks great! Even we don’t getting extra attack

toying with forest gnome (reflavoured as forest goblin) circle of land druid

I’m reading a book at the moment where the main character embodies this trope of the modest but prodigious son, born in the mountain and cunning from his most early age, knowing how to work the fields and how to walk the woods, well liked for his wittiness and ability to solve everyday problem by all the people in the villages nearby.

It gives off this unstoppable main character energy of someone being gifted at everything but in a likeable way because very innocent and at home in the local community.

And I think that would be like a paladin ranger ? I’m excited to see what blend of mechanics would fit best this very nature-knowledgeable, charismatic guy devoted to others but also rowdy energy

unsure about anything other than class: definitely playing ranger. Archery ranger is just my favorite thing to play

I'm probably going to play a barbarian with a trident and a net. Going for the Retiarius gladiator vibe.

I'll be rebuilding my character in my current campaign since we're going to be swapping to the new rules. A Changeling Menagerie (Moon Druid), taking Warden and Primal Strike for the more martial options. We're almost to level 5 in our current campaign, so I'll be starting out with Wild Resurgence which is awesome.

Likely a monk. Unsure if I want to run shadow or hand but the monk changes look like a ton of fun. Depending on the campaign I could also be convinced to go warlock or my true love, rogue.

Why?

Tanky Warlock. Playing one in 5e and BG3, one of my favourite builds.

Fair amount of support with the blade pact things, but I’m hesitant to see if there’s a way to get Medium Armour and Shield proficiency without Hexblade.

Archfey Warlock. Always loved the theme, but hated how underwhelming it was mechanically.

Thinking of going for something like half-orc or dragonborn, just because I love the idea of a brutish 7 feet tall character just misty stepping around all the time.

I'm leaning towards an abyssal tiefling devotion pally, but honestly everything I've heard sounds fun. Maybe some kind of battlemaster fighter/rogue dishing out debuffs with maneuvers and cunning strike would be fun, or I can rebuild the orc glory paladin from a campaign that fell apart after 2 sessions.

Recreate my first 5e character, Forest Gnome Thief

I’ll remake my three favorite characters: • Drow Trickery Cleric/ Fighter • Human (Hexblood) Gloomstalker Ranger/ Rogue • Orc Berserker Barbarian with two battle-axes

It’ll be great to have them on hand when I’m not DMing…

Halfling Wildheart Barbarian, I've already made a mini :)

Moon druid. It was my planned next character in 5e and the new version looks just as cool if not cooler. Maybe not the busted tank it was, but the added flexibility of casting at earlier levels, talking, extending whildshape usage with spell slots, and teleporting around sounds awesome. I love the idea of turning into a blink bear. Also I really want to do an uptight noble/anthropologist moon druid. Someone who grew up outside but is enamored with civility and society and wants to bring that level of refinement to nature. Being appalled by the barbarity of nature and trying to lead by example being the most buttoned up wild animal you've ever seen.

Definitely want to make an Eldritch Knight, potentially with the new shileyley via magic inniate.

My first character in 5E was a Half-Orc Champion Fighter, so I thought it'd be cool to remake that character in 2024. Of course, Half-Orc doesn't exist anymore, so it'd probably be full Orc even if it doesn't have Savage Attacks anymore.

If the playtest versions are anything to go on I'm either going to try a drow beast master ranger with a pet spider, or a halfling Eldritch Knight/abjuration wizard of the campaign goes to at least level 10 to accommodate it

When we actually get the books, I’ve been hankering to play a monk long term. Playing one with playtest rules in a mini-campaign rn but Elements is calling my name. Otherwise I think Assassin Rogue with an allied Battlemaster might be in the cards. Maybe a Drow. Then a Ranger because I love Ranger and am curious about what’s going to happen with them.

Fire Goliath Berzerker

Wood Elf Illusionist

Cthonic Tiefling GOO Warlock.

Orc Paladin or Ranger... Depending on what they reveal about rangers.

Those two are the main characters I always have to play. If I want to try something completely new I'll go Soulknife and either a Dragonborn or gnome. Be a weird Psylocke.

Not 100% committed to anyone yet. I’m mostly looking at rebuilds. And I’m also probably waiting to see how somethings shake out in the final publications/ how things are adopted into AL once we get the full set of new books.
Leading Contenders:
Ex-cultist Tiefling Dragon Sorcerer.
Human Actor Archfey Warlock.
Human Life Cleric of a War Diety.
Something something something Ranger (Maybe? We’ll see what tomorrow brings).

Hard to say just one.

Human noble +2 char +1 int bard (college of valor). Starting with skilled due to the background will probably make for a very able character.

Aasimar. Guide. +2 wis +1 con Druid (circle of stars).

Infernal tiefling. Acoylte +1 char +1 int +1 wis. Divine soul sorcerer.

Drow. Hermit maybe warlock or cleric.

Forever GM here.

I have 2 standbys that I've always wanted to take into a campaign:

A Sorcadin Paladin of Mystra
A Battlemaster/Cleric of the Red Knight.

Pretty much guaranteed to try get to play those in a future campaign if I ever get the chance to play rather than run.

Currently playing a berserk barb that’s going to get updated as soon as the new handbook comes out so probably that!

Night of THE WARLOCK... TONIGHT YOU'RE THE WARLOCK.. THE NAME OF THE WARLOCKKK

Dancer Bard probably.

Movement is always my favorite thing.

Drow warlock, I have a very good backstory ready for him and I genuinely love every single aspect I made about him. Though I was originally planning the build for 5e, when hexblade was a thing, I'm not sure which patron to go for. Genie bladelock sound very cool but we will see.

God, warlock for sure. I'm gonna want to play multiple warlocks. Melee Pact of the Fiend is gonna slay, and an eladrin Archfey with Fey-touched seems like just the silliest thing of all time.

GOOlock, 100%.

The new warlock changes to the base class are exciting on their own, but the specifics for the great old one patron are insane. Can't wait to create that character.

There is not a single subclass in the book I was not encourage my players to play (unless of course I was being selfish and saving it for myself!)

I am liking Paladin but that is my current character. And my last. Then a couple before that…..

Maybe a warlock.

Level 1 Eldritch Initiate to get the Pact of the Blade invocation, Swords Bard 1-20. 

I'm rolling a d12 and then a d4 for subclass.

good ol' reliable, Halfling Thief

Waiting for Cleric announcement before I make my decision. I genuinely enjoy playing support clerics

As a forever DM, no clue

Monk.

Monk or eladrin archfey warlock

My first character in 3e was a duel wielding throwing axe Cleric of Pelor.

So, yeah. War Cleric with duel throwing axes who worships Pelor.

I want to play a bladelock but I'm not sure which subclass. Maybe fey

Convince me which one

Tortle Warlock (Archfey).

I'm almost always a human Fighter or Paladin, so this is a huge deviation.

Dwarf war domain cleric, now that I don't have to play an elf/variant human to pickup booming blade

Artificer

Depends if the non PHB races will work with the new PHB stuff. If so I’m pretty sure we will play the planescape adventure(are old 5e modules compatible still?) and I’m rocking with a Gith Eldritch Knight.

Don't know if it counts, but I'm already playing a World Tree barbarian from the UA and it's been a blast so far. Other than that, if I end up joining a game that allows the new stuff I might give monk a try. It's one of two classes that I haven't really played outside of 1 shots and multi class dips with Moon Druid.

Thief with healer and skulker feats seems really cool. Can use healer as a bonus action thanks to fast hands, after levle 9 you can remain hidden with skulker if you miss and with their level 9 cunning strike if you hit. At that point you can switch from using a vex weapon tosomething like a heavy crossbow for push or a longbow for slow.

I have a fighter I might want to keep for when OneDnD releases.

Also, depending on how Warlock turns out (particularly Celestial and Pact of the Blade), I am considering converting my elven Zealot barbarian / Celestial warlock from 5e into OneDnD.

DM.

Yuan-ti glamour bard. Might never get to play that, but I'm still gonna build it

Warlock for sure and really lean into at-will spells and feats. I have a whole write up for it but the tldr is human for the extra feat and the invocation that grants you a feat and then take your 3 feats at level 1 and get Magic Initiate 3 times. You are a generalist face and cantrip / skill monkey with some decent blasting and utility https://www.reddit.com/r/onednd/comments/138al3g/warlock_build_factotum_the_generalist 

Most likely will be adapting my ongoing campaign’s character. A phantom rogue that will eventually multiclass into a cleric of the undying court.

I haven't checked out a lot of the videos yet, but I wanna keep with my favorite class, druid