Zardnaar
Legend
Every race had unlimited thief except half orc.
D&D 5E Dwarves are the best spellcasters?
Every race had unlimited thief except half orc.
bedir than
Full Moon Storyteller
IT DOESN"T MAKE SENSE
Demetrios1453
Hero
Especially since dwarves were limited to 17 Dex in 1e. They made sub-par thieves, but they could still go as far as they wanted!
If you're going to have level limits and banned classes (which obviously has its issues, since it has long since been abandoned), I like the way Dragonlance did it - make one or two classes that fit each of the races' themes and make them unlimited, and then limit or ban the others (dwarves were unlimited as fighters, elves as rangers and magic-users, and so on). That makes characters much more thematically logical, and gives someone who wants to play that race a reasonable way to go for unlimited advancement.
snickersnax
Explorer
A friend of mine recently shared this with me:
I also found a reference to why thieves were allowed unlimited advancement in levels...
“A demi-human is unlimited in thief level only,” Gary explained, “as this is a class not destined to control the fate of major groups or states.”
bedir than
Full Moon Storyteller
Except that Gary literally had empires and nations ruled by Dwarves and Elves.
snickersnax
Explorer
But how many of them were thieves? Somehow that was the point
Hah!
Henry
Autoexreginated
...Insert joke about politicians here...
Satyrn
First Post
It's the greatest feeling in the world to get a set-up so perfect that you simply can't fail no matter how you deliver the punchline.
I'm so jealous.
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