i swear, i'm like the only person who played D&D and didn't have a generic leather-clad rouge character.

I always went for Monk or fighter or a mixture of both

Nah, I was usually the rogue - rogue /fighter in the group. Every body was always a stupid wizard flinging their spells willy nilly till they realized they were out and I had to defend their low hitpoint butts and open doors or traps so they wouldn't splode! Hah I even tried to kill our entire party on purpose because they were using me. Except that when I thought I had killed all of us my DM reminded me I had Evasion and I was the only one who survived. So he rewinded that bit of the game so the whole group except me ( who didn't die ) wouldn't have to reroll new characters. Curse them.........lol

Hah! i had to be the mage 90% of the time, because everyone else was a fighter or fighter/thief! i was stuck having their steel-clad butts every time there was a monster smarter that "GRARR I BITE YOU ALL!" it's kind of sad that the brains of the group was the one without spells.